Ecothropic
We bring together academic expertise and practical experience to create regenerative, place-based solutions that empower people, honor cultures, and protect ecosystems.
CONSULTING
What we do
We empower for-profit ventures, governments, and NGOs to design an implement strategic, effective projects rooted in on-the-ground experience and rigorous academic insight.
By merging social and environmental sciences with place-based insights, our approach ensures projects are context-driven, locally appropriate, and engage communities from the bottom up.
Our process delivers sustainable, impactful solutions that strengthen and regenerate both people and ecosystems.
EXPERIENCES
Travel with us to meet and learn from the community-leaders that are pioneering regenerative solutions to global issues. We offer high-impact accredited travel programs for students, researchers, and people that want to be part of the solution.
Our programs specialize in natural resource management, climate change solutions, the link between people and the environment, nature-based solutions, and sustainable water resource management.
Ecothropic will give you experience and global understandings you need to stand out and lead in the world’s best businesses and organizations.
CHANGE-MAKING MEDIA
We use storytelling, photography, and film to empower people to tackle tough problems.
We have taught photography for National Geographic for over a decade, been featured in publications ranging from National Geographic Traveller India to the Washington Post and The Week.
Our collaborative processes use filmmaking to empower local communities to act, while sharing stories of what works in a time when we are all looking for solutions.
Meet our Founder…
Britt Basel is the Founder and Principle at Ecothropic in the USA and Mexico with experience spanning 21 years and 44 countries. Britt’s scientific training is in natural resource management and community-engagement. Her visual storytelling and writing skills were developed through her work with National Geographic. Her teaching and facilitation skills matured through instructing courses, field expeditions, and youth summits for Harvard, Oberlin College, Sterling College, Northern Michigan University and others. Drawing on these diverse skills sets, Britt has extensive experience working directly with rural and indigenous communities to address local challenges with traditional knowledge and bottom-up initiative; vulnerability assessment and action planning; fortifying government-community linkages; national level program development for climate adaptation, disaster risk reduction, Nature-based Solutions, and conservation; curriculum design; communication; and engaging diverse stakeholder group in solutions that benefit both people and the ecosystems we depend on. She has been hired by the United Nations Development Program, IUCN, World Wildlife Federation, Save the Children Australia, The Nature Conservancy, NEOM, and many others. The breadth of Britt’s experience allows for an international-national-regional-local understanding of stakeholder engagement and program implementation, with a cross-sectoral, gender-inclusive and culturally-sensitive approach. She is fluent in English and Spanish, and is proficient in Bislama and Solomon Islands Pijin.
This week is was Britt's turn to hang out with Leander Lacy on the Green Mind. As is every conversation she has with Leander, this one was pure laughter, inspiration, and sharing what WORKS! Enjoy!
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