MISSION

Environmental degradation, depletion of fossil fuel resources, global climate changes, growing water scarcity and stress, desertification, global economic instability, war conflicts, major population growth and migration, increasing obesity in many countries of the world are among the critical issues that we are facing in the beginning of this century. The traditional treatment of each problem individually, without proper consideration of the impact of its solution on the other issues, demonstrated its inability to improve the situation. As many of these problems are interrelated, they should be addressed together, as a system, using the guidelines of sustainable development. This brings about a need for innovation at all levels - in science, technology, policy, and business.

The purpose of the Global Eco-Innovation Forum (GEIF) is to bring together the leading specialists in multiple fields of science, policy, and business; disseminate innovative eco-friendly ideas across disciplines; and provide an efficient interdisciplinary collaboration framework within which innovative and comprehensive solutions to world’s critical problems can be developed. The GEIF will accomplish its goals by organizing conferences, establishing groups in online social networks, publishing conference proceedings and books, and maintaining a global online forum.

NEWS

May 10, 2010. A review discussing the key space technology findings for closed biogenerative life support systems, which can simultaneously produce food, water, nutrients, fertilizers, process wastes, and revitalize air, that can be applied to revitalizing hot deserts is published online in Advances in Space Research, world's leading scholarly journal in space technology. For more information, please check out the paper: "Closed Bioregenerative Life Support Systems: Applicability to Hot Deserts".