Total Ecological Health Index.

Total Ecological Health index is a way of quantifying the health of an ecosystem, or entire bioregion. Scientific methods like soil testing, air quality testing, water quality testing, species diversity index, human footprint and other methods can help us gain an understanding for the health of our home environments.

Maintaining and improving the Total Ecological Health Index of bioregions and the entire prlant is a key part of any strategy to stabalize climate.

In fact saving the ecosystems on earth that have high ecological health indecis due to their species diversity may be the most important strategy of all to help maintain earth's precarious balence of life.

E.O Wilson's article in science news talking about hotspots points to an important strategy I will call the arc strategy.

Hotspots:

Hot spots are areas of the planet, that due to unique climate and topography, harbor immense biodiversity. These hot spots are like seed banks for Earth's genetic diversity.

The Arc Strategy:

In this strategy you protect diversity hotspots that will then be able to radiate species diversity out these refugios have historically been the backbone of planetary species diversity and ecoogical resilience.
Developing a coherent and economically viable strategy for protecting these hot spot is essential for ecological resilience and the survival of our species and planetary ecology as we know it.

So, what are some strategies for protecting these arcs of life?

• government funded conservation grants run through science
• ecosocial entreprenuerial enterprise
• private reserves

Each of these strategies has its upsides and down sides.

Ecosocial enterprise offers us a glimpse at a sustainable solution that can compliment, and even weave other strategies together.
Providing a firm matrix of right livelihood, preservation and even regeneration of species this strategy is being pioneered by innovators in the Gaia U community and other world changing groups around the world.

Booyacacao is my personal attempt to create a sustainable, just ecosocial enterprise that can help protect hotspots and also foster opportunities for right livlihood for all people involved.