What We Do

Ecospherics focuses on how a changing natural environment is shaping human and hard security — and how societies are, in turn, shaping the environment.

We provide pragmatic research, analysis, scenario exercises, red teaming, and insights for successfully adapting to a changing world. Combining decades of experience in environmental policy, national defense, communications, and U.S. policy, we guide businesses, governments, and non-profits toward better governance and sustainability strategies for energy insecurity, water stress, mineral exploitation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and security.

Areas We Cover

Energy

The energy that sustains the modern economy is killing the future. Investments in efficiency, innovation, lifestyle, and equity are crucial to a fast energy transition.
Water

Earth is a blue planet, mostly covered in water — but only around one percent of that is freshwater. Almost 800 million people lack safe access to water, and changing weather patterns mean new pressures.
Minerals

Dazzling technologies have added an entirely new sphere to human existence: the cybersphere. But the Internet is built on a periodic table of minerals, which come with new geopolitics, environmental consequences, and other demands.
Biodiversity

Scientists believe the Earth is in its sixth major extinction event, but it’s a first for the human species. There’s an urgent need for more attention to the biodiversity crisis. Photo by Anastasia Alexov. Do not reproduce without permission.
Climate

Record heat, unprecedented floods, legendary storms, megadroughts — the consequences of global climate change are all around us. Mobilizing investment and collective action remains a monumental, existential undertaking.
Security

Protection from threats is a basic responsibility of all governments. But human security, the right to resources, livelihoods, and wellbeing, is as imperiled today as hard security. Photo by Anastasia Alexov. Do not reproduce without permission.