Borderless Earth
ENVS 4120 Climate Migration Document
Spring 2026
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Mission Statement
Mission Statement
Borderless Earth is dedicated to preserving the rights of peoples displaced due to climate dangers while promoting community, preparation for what is to come, and developing mechanisms to help lower carbon emissions through sustainable housing options and education.
Core Values
Core Values
Right to Safe Living Space and Sustainable Housing: Every person on earth deserves the right to a safe living space with protection from dangers, internal and external, and the oppurtunities that come with it. As such, these living spaces are made to be strictly sustainable living with the use of green energy, recycling resources as much as possible, sustainable building materials, and options for self sufficiency and reliance.
Right to a Livable Planet: As every person is owed the right to a livable planet, the sustainable housing efforts and further green policies in place with Borderless Earth aim to reduce carbon emissions on a widescale to help sustain a livable planet, as well as offering shelter to those displaced due to unlivable conditions.
Right to Community and Expression: Natives and migrants are both upheld to standards of acceptance, respect, and understanding among the new formed communities. New residents will be offered, and encouraged to use, different outreach programs to assimilate to the community while also being offered oppurtuntiies to express their culture and find belonging. The green housing will be offered not just in specific areas but across many different climate resistant areas and integrated into existing neighborhoods, to promote equality and fair distribution of resources.
Right to Equal Treatment and Resource Allocation: Borderless Earth has policies in place to monitor the allocation of resources and the efficacy of the program across its differing communities, as well as an equality ensurement team that manages the treatment across all areas working with Borderless Earth to maintain equal treatment and fair resource allocation.
The Dangers of Displacement
The Dangers of Displacement
New to understanding climate change, and the displacement that can come with it? See the sources below.
Most Vulnerable Demographics
Most Vulnerable Demographics
Some of the more vulnerable demographics include low coastal areas and the tropics. The threat of rapidly increasing global sea rise threatens these areas, though severe weather, rising temperature, and many more effects of climate change make almost anywhere beside the poles a dangerous zone. Areas like Russia, Canada, and Greenland are seen as more stable areas that people will be forced to flock to.
Climate Migration: An Overview
Climate Migration: An Overview
Visit https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/climate-migration-101-explainer for a comprehensive look at what climate migration really entails.
Our Housing Model
Our Housing Model
Renewable energy: Solar and Wind Energy
The green housing will exclusively use solar panels and wind energy to power housing, community centers, businesses, and any infrastructure that might need it. Residents are offered training in the construction and maintenance of renewable energy mechanisms, and are encouraged to take the emplyment oppurtunities offered to them in this field.
Sustainable Building Materials
These include bio-based and renewable materials like wood, cork, bamboo, clay, or earth, as well as recycled options, like metal and reclaimed wood. Items like wool would be sourced sustainably and used for insulation. Residents are offered training in sustainable constructions, and are encouraged to take the employment oppurtunities that come with building more sustainable houses.
Infrastructure
Building to support high population density, heat reduction rooftops and green roofs, infrastructure that allows for fluxes in migration are key.
Building in Climate Resilient Areas
Areas like Russia, Canada, and Greenland are good areas for building these residential zones, though places closer to the northern regions could be used before the climate dangers escalate more.
Composting and Recycling
All residents will be required, and encouraged to respect the importance of, recycling as much as possible and composting food waste. Creating soil rich in nutrients is vital to the community gardens and the sustainable farming to feed the residents, and the recycling can also be used directly in the community for building materials, education purposes, different forms of production. Classes and programs to help residents understand composting and recycling are offered to the residents and the public.
Reliable Public Transport
The aim of Borderless Earth is to limit carbon emissions as much as possible by creating walkable areas--- though there will be a small supply of public transport buses and trains for the necessary traveling. Residents are heavily encouraged to walk.
Community and Rooftop Gardens
Community gardens are mandatory and all residents are expected to contribute unless physically unable. These gardens produce food for the community, as well as promoting a sense of unity. Resident are also offered rooftop gardens, which can be used to feed the entire community or be for personal consumption. This comes with free classes in sustainable gardening and understanding resilient plants.
Grey Water Recycling and Rainwater Harvesting
Another method of conserving water--- grey water recycling and rainwater harvesting! The infrastructure has built in mechanisms to collect rainwater, as well as mechanisms in the showers and sinks to collect grey water for watering crops. Residents are offered emplyoment and training oppurtunities in this field of work and management.
Our Program- Borderless Earth
Our Program- Borderless Earth
Borderless Earth is a program dedicated to upholding climate migrant rights and maintaining the people's right to a livable earth and a sustainable living option.
Green Housing Initiative
Green Housing Initiative
A priority of Borderless Earth is to develop plans and policies for housing people displaced due to climate change.
Partnering with Local Governments
Partnering with Local Governments
Borderless Earth partners with local governments to instate policies protecting climate migrants and working to install systems that will efficiently and accurately allocate resources, lower carbon emissions, and fund the program.
Green Construction and Management Training Programs
Green Construction and Management Training Programs
Residents are encouraged to take the green construction and management training offered, and while living in the sustainable housing residents are required to work in one of the many emplyoment opprutunities that are offered in green fields. Working with residents to offer emplyoment and training oppurtunities sets up a more stable livelihood for our residents, as well as getting more people educated and working to create a livable planet.
Awareness and Advocacy for Green Policy Changes
Awareness and Advocacy for Green Policy Changes
Borderless Earth extends its bounds by offering sustainable living classes to those not living in our sustainable housing, and offering online courses for those limited by their location. Along with this, the program fights to advocate for its residents and their rights, as well as the rights of every person to have a livable earth--- through advocating for widespread policy change that should be systematically lowering carbon emissions and rebuilding the earth.
Building Stability and Self Reliance
Building Stability and Self Reliance
Independence Initiatives
Independence Initiatives
With the intention of creating a lasting effect on the climate and hoping for a cleaner future, Borderless Earth aims to prepare residents for life after carbon emissions decrease and high population density cities aren't necessary. We want to set our residents up for life, not just for this time in crises. Our efforts include guides for UN citizenship and understanding legal rights, climate literacy education, offered language classes, education in varied sustainable positions as well as classes that can count toward a GED, and options to gain permanent housing.
Earning GED
Earning GED
Among the classes offered through Borderless Earth, residents are given free classes that can count toward earning their GED, promoting the future and increasing opportunities.
Understanding Your Rights and UN Citizenship
Understanding Your Rights and UN Citizenship
Its vital to inform our residents of their rights and the dangers/protections they are facing. These classes are also offered to non-residents to better understand the legalities of climate displacement.
Climate Literacy Classes and Language Acquisition
Climate Literacy Classes and Language Acquisition
Language classes are offered to help residents integrate into their new community, as well as offered to non-residents to promote mutual respect and understanding.
Permanent Living
Permanent Living
Borderless Earth creates homes that are meant to be resilient and sustainable over a long period of time. Residents are offered a program which prepares them for taking over a home, buying their sustainable home, or partnering with our team to build a new sustainable home elsewhere. This offers residents a chance to be self sufficient in the future and aims to reduce displacement that could come once residents might be ready to move out of sustainable housing or to another area.
Education Programs
Education Programs
Borderless Earth offers education programs free to our residents and open to the public in the following areas:
Language Acquisition
Legal Understanding-- Knowing Your Rights
Green Construction and Infrastructure
Water Management and Efficiency
Gardening with Resilience and Building Gardens
Driver's Education and General Skills Class
Community and Wellness
The Importance of Identity and Respect
Who do we serve?
Who do we serve?
Borderless Earth serves everyone on this green earth. Our goals aim to promote community and connectivty among all of Earth's residents and to uphold the right to a livable planet. Together, both natives and migrants, we can work together to combat the rising climate change concerns. Planning for a greener future that we will uphold together, as one community without borders, aiming to lower carbon emissions and give back to the earth, and advocating for policy change our mission to save the planet.
Your options:
Your options:
Donate to the Program
Volunteer at our Intiatives
Join the Program
Spread the Word!
This website was created for a class assignment and this program is not real. However, the ideas set forth in this website are still useful in combatting the effects of climate change and planning for the mass amount of climate migration that will likely occur in the near future as the global temperature rises.
References
Batalova, J., & Huang, L. (2023, November 16). Article: Climate Migration 101: An Explainer | migrationpolicy.org. Migration Policy Institute. Retrieved March 17, 2026, from https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/climate-migration-101-explainer
IDMC. (n.d.). Displacement, disasters and climate change. Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. https://www.internal-displacement.org/focus-areas/Displacement-disasters-and-climate-change/
10 countries at risk of climate disaster | The IRC. (2023, November 3). Rescue.org. Retrieved March 17, 2026, from https://www.rescue.org/article/10-countries-risk-climate-disaster
Vince, G. (2022). Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World. Flatiron Books.
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