[Please be aware, Ecohold is in the process of filing to transition from a non-profit society to a charity. This will allow us greater flexibility when applying for and receiving funding. We will be reopening grant applications after this process is complete. Grant application materials will be available here at the appropriate time, estimated currently as mid 2025.]

Ecohold is extremely interested in funding projects which develop or reconceptualise views of nature and the environment itself. Examples of topics we are interested in promoting include, but are not limited to:

• Are there environmental entities? If so, what are they?
• Is the environment a single, unified entity (i.e., ‘Mother Earth’) or are there multiple discrete environmental entities (i.e., rivers, mountains, forests, deserts, etc.)?
• How are environmental entities, assuming there are any, distinguished?
• What is the philosophical doctrine under which the identity of environmental entities should be understood?
• If there are environmental entities, do they have welfare?
• If environmental entities have welfare, in what is it constituted, and how is it determined?
• Do environmental entities have rights? If so, what are they, and how are they determined?
• What philosophical theories can explain environmental rights, and how?

[Please be aware we are in the process of preparing to begin receiving grant applications. Grant application materials will be available here at the appropriate time, estimated currently as late 2024.]

Whatever our philosophical commitments, the question of how human society should treat the environment, and live alongside it, is unavoidable. Ecohold is particularly interested in promoting projects which reconceptualise traditional views of the human-environment relationship. Examples of topics we are interested in funding may include, but are not limited to:

• Should humanity establish, respect, or recognise environmental rights? To what extent, and why?
• Are human rights and environmental rights at odds?
• Must humanity adapt to respect environmental rights, and if so, how?
• What sort of social models would best promote environmental coexistence and respect?
• How might human society be restructured or reconfigured to best promote environmental coexistence and respect?
• Should human attitudes towards the environment change? If so, why, and how?
• How, if at all, do developments in human technology warrant changes to human attitudes regarding the environment?
• If the environment is a person, or similar entity, how can and should we interact with it as a person?
• Can we socialize with the environment? What would such relationships look like?
• Can the environment be an active participant in society?
• What is the value of human-environment relationships?

Ecohold has a strong interest in contributing to the development of technological advances which promote sustainability and resource independence, or might otherwise facilitate or promote coexistence with the environment, the human capacity to respect environmental rights, or reconceptualisation of the human-environment relationship. Details of how to apply for support in such projects will be available here, soon.