David Houle

David Houle is a futurist, strategist and speaker. Houle spent more than 20 years in media and entertainment. He worked at NBC, CBS, and was part of the senior executive team that created and launched MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1 and CNN Headline News.

Houle has won a number of awards. He won two Emmys, the prestigious George Foster Peabody award, and the Heartland award for “Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream”. He was also nominated for an Academy Award. He is the Futurist in Residence at the Ringling College of Art+ Design.

He has delivered some 700 speeches on six continents and thirteen countries. He is often called “the CEOs’ Futurist” having spoken to or advised 3,500+ CEOs and business owners in the past eight years.

Houle coined the phrase the Shift Age and has written extensively about the future and the future of energy. This is his seventh book.

His primary web site is www.davidhoule.com

Tim Rumage

Tim Rumage is a planetary ethicist and naturalist. Taking an interdisciplinary and systems thinking approach to education, he has been teaching at the intersection of Science, Ecology, Art, Design and Architecture for more than 30 years.

Tim is the Coordinator/Developer of Environmental Studies at Ringling College of Art and Design where he teaches courses on environmental science, sustainability, creating ecological cities, applied environmental design, food, water, biodiversity and environmental ethics. He is also a Coordinator for Sustainability in Design Education for CUMULUS and a frequent lecturer at other colleges and for community organizations.

As a trained field biologist, Tim has done research on Marine Mammals, Pelagic Birds, Bats, Habitat Restoration and Land Planning. He has been involved in a variety of interdisciplinary projects in the US and Africa involving habitat restoration and protection, green infrastructure, local food production and sustainability. Tim’s current work focuses on the economic value of nature and nature’s services.

His primary web site is http://planetaryethicist.com/

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TSE Corporate Sponsors

We seek to develop relationships with corporations large and small. Corporations generally have larger carbon footprints than individuals and also are primarily focused on business. The larger the corporation the larger it probably contributes to the dynamics creating Climate Change. This also means that bringing crew consciousness into your corporation you can have a disproportionate opportunity to both lessen the unintentional negative effects you cause to the environment and to create crew consciousness with your employees and customers.

We want as many and as large donations from corporations as possible. However we will not accept donations without some commitment to taking crew actions. You can click on any logo on this page and see the commitment that has been made to TSE. Every company is different so crew actions will be different. We want to work with any company to customize and develop actions you can take that increases crew actions and the number of crew members on TSE.

There is no perfect and complete solution. All corporations, as with individuals, are currently existing within a fossil fuel economy that cannot be changed overnight. So we all must do what we can and do it now. Whether it is a commitment to lower your carbon footprint every year, to support event marketing, to double your carbon offsets, to support employee or customer crew activities or to change how you operate or the changing the materials you currently use, we want to work with you! Make a tax deductible donation and also consider co-marketing efforts in partnership with us. We gladly allow our logo and name to be used on any positive program that promotes crew consciousness.

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Crew consciousness results in crew actions. Our mission is to have millions of people worldwide acting as crew. Together, at scale, we will make the difference that matters. Posted below are brief videos from crew members discussing the actions they are taking to create a sustainable civilization. We invite you to do the same, so we can share best practices worldwide. If you’d prefer to just write a description of your crew actions, you can do that too. Just click on the button immediately below.

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Planetary Ethicist Tim Rumage on Plastic bottles

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Crew friendly cities are cities that have a spaceship earth awareness that citizens need and want to act as crew of This Spaceship Earth.

We seek to help advise cities and communities on how they can become a ThisSpaceshipEarth.Org Crew Friendly City. Please just reach out to us via our Contact page and let us know you are interested. We want to help you!

Why Cities?

As of 2016 54% of humans live in urban environments. That number is projected to increase to 70% by the 2040s. This means that it is at the city level where crew consciousness needs to be and to expand. Cities are made up of communities, issues are local, actions have local and global consequences, politics are lessened. Cities are the future of humanity on This Spaceship Earth.

• 2017 Quartermaster’s Report on the Status of Spaceship Earth
• City of Sarasota, 1st Crew Friendly City

If you’d like to found a chapter to help us reach our goal of one billion crew members, while creating a local community to help stop Climate Change, click the button below.

There are two questions you might consider as you review the Quartermaster’s report.

Your reflections on your answers to these two questions determine your consciousness and participation in defining and creating our common future.

Chapter 2: Quartermaster’s Report from “This Spaceship Earth”