Intemerate Earth is developing an educational program for translocal market development, intermediary training, and ecological auditing, building on the graduate and post-graduate curriculum established with the Pasifika Communities University in Suva, Fiji. The purpose is to integrate community-based data stewardship, local governance, and the household economy with a just and equitable index based on the intemerate equation — enabling a bottom-up, translocal, and inter-global economic approach.
Central to this work is the development of intermediaries: trained local data stewards, auditors, and protocol officers who can bridge community-held ecological knowledge with regional and global accounting systems. These intermediaries are not outside experts imposing frameworks — they are community members equipped to govern, verify, and exchange ecological data on their own terms.
Intemerate Earth seeks to promote partnerships in regional and global collectives. This work builds on programs and workshops convened by the Institute of Mission and Research (IMR), Pasifika Communities University (PCU), the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC), the University of the South Pacific (USP), and the Pacific Islands Forum, as part of the “Reweaving the Ecological Mat” initiative. We have received support from the World Council of Churches (WCC) and the G20 Interfaith Forum.
This work is grounded in the publication Ecological Economic Accounts: Towards Intemerate Values — and looks forward to the translocal markets, auditing protocols, and data sovereignty frameworks that will carry it into practice.
Reweaving the Ecological Mat Conference, Suva, Fiji, 2019.
