Restoring Eden is a long-term project to develop the knowledge, tools, and trained people needed to repair damaged ecosystems and build regenerative communities. The software is one expression of that mission. The education and the people are the others.
Most people today have no working relationship with the land. They do not know what grows where they live, how water moves through their watershed, what the soil beneath their feet needs, or how the ecological systems that sustain them actually function.
Restoring Eden exists to change that: through tools, education, and direct support for the people willing to do the work. The mission is to help individuals and communities develop genuine land literacy and act on it, building practical, community-driven solutions to our most pressing ecological needs.
This work is grounded in permaculture, a design philosophy and practice for creating self-sustaining, regenerative habitats modeled on natural ecosystems. It draws on open geospatial science, ecological restoration, and the accumulated wisdom of land stewards across traditions and cultures.
A geospatial knowledge base and the tools to explore and act on it: an interactive encyclopedia, an ecological design environment, and the data pipelines that feed them both.
A freely available ecological education curriculum covering permaculture design, bioregional ecology, hydrology, soil science, and land stewardship, available through associated programs.
A growing network of permaculture designers, ecologists, and land stewards developing expertise through the project and applying it in the field.
These three pillars are designed to reinforce each other. The software makes knowledge accessible. The curriculum teaches people to use it. The practitioners apply it in the field, and their field experience feeds back into the knowledge base.
Restoring Eden is a project of the Kingdom of New Rivers, a private estate and community development initiative integrating permaculture, technology, decentralized governance, and interdisciplinary education.
The Kingdom's ecological and conservation work, including on-the-ground restoration, watershed stewardship, and community development, is carried out by the New Rivers Non-Profit Organization (NRNPO). Restoring Eden is the software and education arm of that broader effort, developing the tools and the people that make restoration possible at scale.
Visit New Rivers →We are a small, dedicated team working toward a large vision. If you want to know more about who we are and the wider community we are part of, visit us at newrivers.nexus.
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