Our Promise

The EcoPlex will be home to a community of business leaders, scientists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and youth leaders, who all recognize the power of innovative solutions. The largest challenge to innovation is adaptation. We will bring all of that into a living complex, a smart village.

EcoPlex will have world-class research labs, collaborative workspaces where consortiums of science and industry can meet and develop products that are good for people, profit, planet… and peace (read: strength). The showpiece of the facility will be the National Environmental Museum™, America’s first-ever museum dedicated exclusively to showcasing innovations to address environmental threats – manmade or natural.

The current national labs in America support our military. We need a national lab for the civilian sector – to make our communities safer and our industry more resilient, flexible, and competitive.

OUR Mission

Establish a private-sector, international hub to identify, invest in, and demonstrate innovation, that accelerates the adaptation of technology, strengthening our nation’s economic competitiveness, security, and industrial resilience.

“EcoPlex would be great for … the World”

–Terry Shultz
Founder and President, Women in the Environment

Five Pillars of the EcoPlex™

The EcoPlex will be a national laboratory for civilian society and industry. As a “Living Laboratory,” it will showcase sustainable technologies and innovations that make our communities, industries, and national security more resilient. The complex will eventually house five major centers for sustainability.

EcoAccelerator: The Center for Innovation and Applied Solutions™ will be a public benefit corporation that will merge science with business. We will Identify, evaluate, and invest in innovations that have commercial promise. It will encourage industry and entrepreneurs to share the goals of transforming how we live, work, play, and compete – for the better. .

EcoCollaborator: The Earth EpiCenter™ will be a shared office complex where industry, environmental organizations, and scientists can genuinely collaborate on developing solutions for manmade and natural challenges.

EcoSandbox: The National Environmental Museum™ will be our nation’s first-ever museum dedicated exclusively to the environment. Rather than show photos of gloom, we will have working exhibits of solutions. We will be the museum for corporate America to visit to improve their ROI and resiliency.

EcoSecurator: While our military is prepared for all kinds of threats, such as, irregular wars, our civilian sector is not. And that is our weakest link. The Center for Global Resilience™ will be a think tank focused on developing strategies to improve our resilience and survivability to existential threats e.g. Carrington Events, Zombi viruses, cyberwars, and other manmade and natural threats.

EcoSustainer: The EcoLeaders Institute™ will educate and advance promising young talent into leadership positions within the global sustainability community. Young people are the bedrock of disruption and novel ideas, and they have a stake in their future. Too, we want people who are passionate and will dedicate their careers to this exciting mission!

OUR Planet in Peril…OUR NATION'S SECURITY AT RISK

The Amazon produces 20% of world’s oxygen. More than 150 acres of this critical rainforest is lost every minute - 78 million acres lost every year! Now we have fires across America and Europe. We can change this with how we build and farm - easy!
The past ten years have been the warmest on record. The oceans have absorbed up to 90% of this excess warmth. What will happen when it can no longer absorb that excess warmth?.
Thawing of the oceans polar regions could release exponential amounts of methane which is 54X more potent than CO2. Let us not talk about all those viruses that have been locked up that our bodies have lost immunity to....
Continued development of AI and quantum chips will put an incredible strain on current energy resources. We need to think of new strategies and practical solutions.

The lure of technology savings is no excuse for Corporate America to be vulnerable to ransomware or cyberattacks. Where are the built in redundancies and backups!