I4HS is the umbrella operating organization of three programs:

1. International Library of Sustaining Human Wisdom (Library),
2. Education, and
3. EMANATION (EM). 

Vision. The vision for the Institute for Human Sustainability is to initiate and bring about the conscious, transcendent social evolution of civilization.

Intentions.

      1. The Intention of The Trust becomes the intention for I4HS’ existence. I4HS recognizes that socially sustainable families are the foundation of socially sustainable civilizations, while sustainable organizations are the foundation of sustainable societies. For the purposes of this proposal, I4HS must model itself and operate as an adaptable organization through social sustainability practices, as a type II, double loop learning organization and corporate entity. 

      2. To develop the necessary enculturating processes and materials to teach and train democratic societies, communities, families, and individuals how to support the social sustainability of each other. 

Philosophy. The longest lived (sustainable) societies are those in which each individual is sustained as he or she contributes to the sustainability of his or her family, community, and society; and, symbiotically, societies become long lived as they contribute to the social sustainability of the individual, their family, and their community. Such longevity is not possible without all organizations entering into that same symbiotic relationship with individuals and their host societies. Collectively, their social sustainability is maintained by devising, adapting, and implementing more mature and effective models of their social institutions and systems, from the level of childrearing to global organizations to accommodate perennially inevitable social, political, and financial-economic change.

Mission.

      1. Develop methods that empower democratic citizens to engage social, political, and financial-economic change in ways that contribute to the stability, peace, and social sustainability of their families, communities, and societies.

      2. Develop methods for citizens to become informed and educated concerning public social, political, and financial-economic issues; and the methods for them to develop socially sustainable options to those issues, and the means for sharing their opinions, preferences, and knowledge with their public executives.

Desired Outcomes. The intention of forming the Institute is to “bend the culture” of mature and developing democratic nations so that the issues of social justice, social equity, and the common good become balanced, and societies become stable and eventually socially sustainable. This means that citizens will also become more responsible to improve their quality of life, to grow into their innate potential to do so, and enjoy both developments with an equal capability as anyone else would or could.

It is our belief that there exist sufficient wisdom in the history of civilizations, societies, empires, dynasties, and nations to help us understand “what works” to support social stability and peace.

Further, there are sufficient intelligent people who have the capacity to make wise choices to support “what works” for the peaceful sustainability of their communities, societies, and nations.

We assume that all that is needed are unbiased, non-aligned, and unaffiliated processes that allow hundreds of millions of citizens of democratic nations to participate in option-development, choice-making, decision-making, and action-implementation to create solutions for the benefit of the greatest number of citizens.