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Welcome to the Ei Newsletter
After nearly three years in Sarasota, Ei is well established in the new headquarters with our important work escalating with local, national, and global impact. The Ei Rewilding Urban Landscapes Pilots continue as a primary focus along with establishing a Lambda Alpha International Suncoast Chapter.
The new focus area What We Eat Matters announced in the Winter newsletter organizes Ei's work over the past seven years into three actionable categories: Personal Health, World Water Pollution & Depletion, and Diversity Reduction.
The Ei Newsletter continues as a powerful communication vehicle with the Winter Newsletter achieving a nearly 50%-open rate!
Indeed, Ei continues to thrive and lives the tagline, Regeneration in ACTION! Follow the Ei Magazines, The IMPACT and Regeneration in ACTION, to keep current on project status and tales from the journey.
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Upon discovering that they lived a mere hour apart in Florida, Table2Farms (T2F) Visionary & Founder Bridgette Luther and Ei Founder & CEO Holly Elmore reunited and rekindled their close bond. Bridgett and Holly originally met at the 2015 National Zero Waste Business Conference hosted in Los Angeles.
In her pursuit to decrease methane gas emissions from landfills and to improve soil health, Bridgett founded T2F; the T2F focus is on scaling-up food waste-collection-for-composting programs in small-to-medium-sized markets. Holly joined the T2F Team as a Principal where she shares her extensive food waste-composting expertise.
Holly, Bridgett, and fellow T2F Principal Tom Wright attended the 2024 U.S. Composting (USCC) Conference hosted in Daytona Beach in February. Though she officially represented T2F at the conference, Holly retained her Ei hat and enjoyed reconnecting with her plethora of industry friends and meeting new colleagues.
At the conference, Holly spent significant time with Ei Advisors (and dear friends!) Kathy Kellogg Johnson, Kellogg Garden Products Co-Owner. and Brenda Platt, Institute for Local Self Reliance Co-Director and Director of Composting for Community. Additionally, Holly enjoyed time with close friend Kim Charick, EPA R4 Team Lead, Food Waste Prevention.
The RiA article, Life Spirals: lifetime friends, new professional horizons, gives a conference overview as well the intertwining history of Holly, Brenda, Bridgett, and Kathy's lifetime friendships.
Photo: Bridgett and Holly at the closing USCC Conference reception.
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Post-USCC Conference, via Kim's invitation, Brenda and Holly were treated to a three-hour meeting with 4Roots Executive Director Tommy Ward and his team including a tour of the 4Roots Farm Campus in Orlando.
Located on a donated 40-acre tract of urban land, the 4Roots Farm Campus is a well-planned community-based endeavor that is a work-in-progress. The campus is strategically located in the southern Packing District less than two miles from Downtown Orlando.
It was heartwarming to experience the plethora of synergies with the new Ei What We Eat Matters focus area. On Friday, May 17, Ei Advisors Steven Suau, Carbon Life Consultant, and Tim Rumage, Planetary Ethicist and Professor of Environmental Studies at Ringling College of Art & Design, join Holly for a 4Roots follow-up meeting and tour.
The RiA article, Life Spirals: lifetime friends, new professional horizons, introduces 4Roots and gives an overview of the impressive tour; the Holly Elmore Images (HEI)-photo album, 4Roots Campus Tour, gives a pictorial recount of the amazing three hours spent at the campus.
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Shifting consciousness through programs and initiatives that push the boundaries of mainstream practices is integral to Ei endeavors.
Though the current environmental crisis may seem overwhelming, there are ample actions whose impact is negligible on an individual basis yet tremendous from a cumulative perspective. Individuals are consumers whose dollars vote for their choice in products, manufacturing standards and practices, and treatment of the labor force. To maintain profitability, companies and organizations must provide products and services that the consumer is willing to purchase.
When an individual shifts action and shares the new practices with friends personally and on social media, group consciousness emerges within the individual's network of family, friends, and business colleagues. If group members share within their individual network, seeds are germinated for collective consciousness to emerge.
Holly contributes to building Collective Consciousness via the Ei Rewilding Urban Landscapes Pilots and sharing her artistic photos on social media designed to influence individual action.
The RiA article, Shifting Consciousness: individual action matters, delves into the important role individual action plays in creating Collective Consciousness; the November 2023 Collective Consciousness: a movement, a solution article introduces and defines Collective Consciousness.
Photo: Holly educating a group of local residents on the importance of native plants and building local food security via gardens and food forest.
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Ei Rewilding Urban Landscapes
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When she returned to her hometown, Sarasota, Florida, after residing in Atlanta for four decades, Holly dedicated her spacious approximately 8,500-square-foot yard to two rewilding pilots: Native Plant Landscape and Permaculture-Oriented Landscape.
Collective Consciousness is building around rewilding landscapes to support wildlife ecosystems above and below the ground; creating local food security via home and community gardens is an important additional benefit. Holly contributes to the consciousness via publishing Ei-magazine articles, documenting the pilots' progress in a series of HEI-photo galleries, circulating newsletters, speaking at meetings and conferences, hosting tours, and sharing her story via artistic photography on social media.
The RiA article, Ei Rewilding Urban Landscape Pilots, substantiates the importance of rewilding landscapes, details simple individual action, and introduces the Ei Pilots; the HEI Ei Rewilding Urban Landscapes album documents the pilots' progress in a series of photo galleries.
Photo: Ei Food Forest in Holly's backyard; photo courtesy of HEI. |
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Holly Elmore Enterprises launched in 2018 as an avenue for Holly to share her zero waste-, food waste-, and materials-management-industry expertise once Ei entered the Era of Regeneration. In June 2017, Ei declared the Era of Recycling Refinement was Mission Accomplished and announced the Nature Prevails, Soil Health, and Water Waste | Toxicity platforms.
Complementing HEE consulting via @ Your Service, The Fingertip Press publishes the Ei Magazines, articles for third-party publications, and article/photo books, both online and hard copy; the Ei Digital Books page lists the published books along with links to virtual versions.
Additionally, Holly Elmore Images (HEI) launched in 2018 to provide professional photos for The Fingertip Press and the Ei site.
As she ventured into fine-art photography, the Holly Elmore Images Portfolio site launched in April 2024 to showcase Holly's abstract and otherwise artistic images. In the the Natural Wonders and Farm & Garden Galleries, most of the images were captured in the Ei Rewilding Urban Landscapes Pilots. The IMPACT article, My Photography Story: from an amateur to a professional, announces the portfolio site launch.
Photo: Heirloom tomato surrounded by edible flowers harvested from the Ei Rewilding Urban Landscapes Pilots courtesy of HEI.
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Lambda Alpha International
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Lambda Alpha International (LAI) is the honorary global network for thought leaders in all fields related to the preservation and sustainable development of land.
As a 93-year-old organization, LAI boasts prominent industry leaders from across the globe via the network of 27 chapters and At-Large members.
Last December, Holly celebrated her ten-year anniversary as a LAI Member and served on the Global Executive Committee in her role as Global Assistant Communications Director for five years.
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LAI Global Water-Land Series Group
In early 2024, Holly joined Jim Musbach, LAI Golden Gate Chapter member, as Co-Chair for the LAI Global Water-Land Series Group, a subcommittee of the Global Initiatives Committee. Ei Advisors Steve Suau, Tim Rumage, and Brad Bass joined the Group.
Upon accepting the Co-Chair position, Holly resigned as the Global Assistant Communications Director.
On June 13 12 pm EST Steve and Brad serve as presenters along with Professor Jay Lund at UC Davis on the Introduction to Water & Land Economics Global webinar hosted by the Global Initiatives Committee. Holly is the webinar moderator.
The webinar is free, yet registration is required and open to LAI members and non-members.
Register: HERE
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LAI Suncoast: a shining star
Upon returning to her hometown, Sarasota, FL in 2021, Holly embarked on forming a LAI community of environmental leaders; Ei Advisors Bridgett Luther, Charles Reith, Mary Ann Bowie, and Tim Rumage accepted LAI At-Large-member nominations.
The IMPACT article, The Power of LAI Comes to Florida!, chronicles the support by the LAI Chapter Development Committee to charter a Suncoast Chapter and gives an overview of the first official LAI Suncoast event on November 28, 2023.
On Thursday, April 25, the LAI Suncoast Chapter underdevelopment hosted its second official event at Grove Restaurant located in one of Lakewood Ranch's (LWR) three town centers. LAI VP Craig Binning traveled from Toronto to attend the meeting, educate on the value of LAI membership, and induct four new members. Craig was treated to a short version of the Holly's SRQ Tour.
Since 2018 LWR consistently ranks the top performing multi-generational community in the nation; thus, LWC was a perfect location for the LAI Suncoast meeting. LWR SVP Laura Cole gave an excellent presentation on LWR: Past, Present & Future.
The IMPACT article, Shining Stars: Lakewood Ranch and LAI Suncoast, gives an overview of the excellent meeting and progress towards chapter development.
As of this newsletter's publishing, LAI Suncoast boasts 21 members with many promising prospects.
The next LAI Suncoast meeting scheduled for Thursday June 13 5:30 pm is sponsored by the Gulf Coast Community Foundation (GCCF.) LAI Suncoast member and GCCF SVP Community Investment Jon Thaxton will speak on Affordable Housing – there are simple solutions.
The meeting is free, yet registration is required and open to LAI members and non-members.
Register: HERE
Photo: Craig at famous Siesta Beach #1-in-the-Nation sign on his Holly SRQ Tour; photo courtesy of HEI.
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Join the Ei Team
Through active participation, Ei Supporters work with industry leaders on establishing regenerative business practice standards. To join the close-knit Ei Team and commit to active participation, contact Holly at holly@earth-impact.org or 404-510-9336.
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