About Endangered Earthlings

We're not a "we're doomed" outfit, and we're not selling you guilt with a side of houseplants.

Endangered Earthlings started in 2017 because a couple of us got tired of environmental messaging that made people feel bad and gave them nothing to actually do about it. So we built the opposite: real information, real solutions — and when we needed to prove the solutions actually worked, somebody drove a house into the desert to find out.

That somebody was Pamela Erickson, our co-founder. Six years, five expeditions, 235 gallons of water for three of us over 67 days, one exploded wind turbine, a parasite courtesy of "pine-filtered" rainwater, and enough field data to fill two books. Paul Hollis, our Executive Director — yes, that Paul Hollis, author of the bestselling Hollow Man Series — has carried this organization since day one. Steven Sutherland, our Chief Science Officer, is the one who kept sending her to the middle of nowhere to prove a point, and the one who showed up in a truck named after the apocalypse when things went sideways.

What we actually do: educate people on real environmental issues, and hand them solutions that have been field-tested, not focus-grouped. No hypotheticals. No "studies suggest." We did the stupid stuff so you don't have to.

Our guiding principle: taking care of the 10 feet of dirt around you. Not the whole planet — nobody can carry that. Just your dirt. Your habits. Your household. That's where it starts, and it's the only part you actually control.

Field Notes is where we hand over what we learned — one tested idea at a time, straight from the field, not a press release.