Nature Connectedness

Deepening understanding of the human-nature relationship and meaningful nature experience through applied research, practice and outreach.

Science: Building on the novel transdisciplinary research which comprised Matthew Zylstra’s 2014 PhD dissertation, EarthCollective is partnering with universities and institutions to further the science of nature connectedness/relatedness and its links with meaningful experience and sustainability education through additional research and publications.
Outreach: Insights are communicated and disseminated through eyes4earth.org which serves as an outreach portal for the cumulative research on meaningful nature experience, connectedness with nature and its implications for sustainability education, environmentally responsible behaviour and in advocacy of a “consciousness toward connectedness”.

EarthCollective is a peer-to-peer network catalysing and enabling initiatives that enhance people’s relationships with nature, themselves and their communities. Over the past two decade, this initiative has grown a lot like mycelium: a purposed entanglement of energised interactions that nourish networks and sporadically fruit into visible expressions with tangible initiatives, organisations and outcomes.