Eupterra

Similar to many, there are a lot of adjectives that describe me. Biologist, blogger, and even essential oil locket manufacturer (who would have thought!). I am a wife and mother, owner of two businesses one online and one brick-and-mortar, friend, teacher, mentor, and the founder of Eupterra. Starting as a college project back in 2007, Eupterra Fou... ndation was drafted up as my idea for a foundation that would further the advancement of a sustainable future. Originally, it was primarily focused on sustainable agriculture and farming practices while conserving ethnomedical knowledge. However, being involved in a lot of conservation and ethnobiology work, I became accustomed to hearing the gloom and doom rhetoric of how our world is falling apart because human population is exploding past carrying capacity, pollution is toxifying our bodies and our ecosystems, habitat loss due to modern expansion is causing widespread extinction, etc. Basically, the furthering of human civilization is destroying our worlds environment. But I wondered, why does it have to? Why does our species advancement have to come at the cost of our planet? Why cant it come with its restoration instead? Sustainability was not much of a field or terminology discussed back when I was going to school. However, I decided that rather than being another out in the field ecology person, I would take on finding out how we can build a sustainable future and advance our lives at the same time. Starting with helping to put together a farming co-op, I gained the skills of networking, coordinating, getting resourceful, and understanding business to eventually turn my college project into a reality. Eupterra became the foundation for the pursuit of global environmental sustainability by encouraging individuals to live holistic lives themselves first. These days, that is what I do with my life empowering you to live a healthier and more sustainable life and thus lead to a healthier and more sustainable planet for us all. It starts with the person. Our world ...Read More