How to be involved
There are many ways to get involved with Environmental Action Reaching Throughout Humanity. What is your passion? Below we have a brief list of our current programs and positions we need filled within each. If you live outside of Taos, New Mexico, there are remote opportunities for involvement as well. Let us know how you would like to contribute in the form below and we can set up an interview. All positions are currently volunteer based, though there may be opportunity for paid positions in the near future as the nonprofit grows.
Mud the Mesa (active):
An educational natural building program that will offer experiential training in many different building techniques. The first project under this program will launch this spring on two and a half acres in Taos County in the Spring of 2023, and will involve several intensive workshops with professional builders within the Taos, New Mexico community and beyond. The structures that will be built will serve as a model for sustainable community that we hope will be an example of the accessibility and affordability of natural building amid the current housing crisis.
Positions needed: Part-time builders, architects, kitchen volunteers, volunteer coordinator, program director, fundraising coordinator, grant writer, media coordinator, (some of these positions may be filled by board members).
Clean Water for the Huni Kuins (active):
Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, in the state of Acre, the Huni Kuin people and adjacent tribes have asked us to help them create clean water for a better quality of life for their communities. E.A.R.T.H. recently fundraised to hire a well company who traveled for days along a river on small boats deep into the jungle to drill three working wells in one of the Indigenous Huni Kuin villages. There are many more Indigenous villages like this one that have expressed a need for clean drinking water, most of which drink from muddy water holes. The director of this program will visit these villages to bring solar electric to the wells this Spring. We will continue fundraising while he is there communicating with surrounding villages about their needs for clean water and help them reach their goals.
Positions needed: Fundraising coordinator, media coordinator, public relations/spokesperson, grant writer, (some of these positions may be filled by board members).
Water Walk for the Rio Grande: (active)
We are working with a diverse group of nonprofits, activists, students, educators, artists, religious groups and nations, working towards implementing legal personhood for the Rio Grande and its tributaries. The walk started in April of 2022, when a group of nonprofits initiated a great walk along the Rio Grande River, starting in Santa Fe, NM, ending in Colorado. This walk will be continued in April of 2024, starting in Santa Fe, NM and ending at the headwaters of the Rio Grande in Creed, Colorado. There will be actions along the way in Santa Fe, Taos and Crestone to bring awareness to the need for the legal personhood of the Rio Grande and its tributaries, with rallies, prayer vigils, ceremonies, speakers, education and more along the way.
Positions needed: Public relations/spokesperson, walkers, bus drivers, cooks, fundraising coordinator(s), organizer, media coordinator, speakers, educators, environmental activists, mediator(s), landowners wishing to host walkers, etc. (more TBA)
Pick Up Earth (inactive):
In order to co-create a thriving world for ourselves and future generations, Pick-Up Earth explores, restores, and protects the ecosystems of North America by cleaning thousands of miles of roads, lakes and waterways. We host pop-up events that build and strengthen communities by inspiring them to collect, recycle and utilize the trash in their area, while educating about and advocating for cleaner rivers, oceans, and waterways nationwide.
Positions Needed: Public relations/spokesperson, walkers, bus drivers, cooks, fundraising coordinator(s), organizer, media coordinator, repurposing manager, etc., (some of these positions may be filled by board members).
Geomancy (current):
To be launched in the summer of 2023. An interactive real-life immersion designed to lead participants deeper into levels of presence through hands-on, earth-centered skill-building, elemental embodiment, character building and live-action-role-playing. This will include back-woods training, homesteading, survival skills and herbalism, helping youth step away from their screens and connecting with the earth around them through play and direct experience; ages 13-18.
Positions needed: Teachers, (herbalism, weaving, Wim Hof, survival skills, art, theater, meditation, sword-fighting, etc.), CDL bus drivers, program director, media coordinator, fundraising coordinator, graphic designer, (more TBA), (some of these positions may be filled by board members).