Pollution, atmospheric alteration, and the loss of soils and biotic diversity are artifacts of technological cultures estranged from the great natural systems of the planet.
Modern cultures exploit the natural world, and in so doing threaten their own long-term viability.
It is essential that we create a truly symbiotic relationship with nature. This relationship will be predicated on new, highly evolved technologies I call Living Machines. Ocean Arks International is a non-profit ecological research, education, and technological development organization founded in 1981 by John and Nancy Todd. Our mission is to purify the waters of the earth, develop strategies for living more lightly on the planet, and foster the emergence of a lasting planetary culture. Ocean Arks is a direct outgrowth of the world-renowned work of the New Alchemy Institute, which the Todd's founded in 1970.