ABOUT RADICLE EARTH
Meet Rae
Welcome, I'm Rae, founder of Radicle Earth.
Radicle Earth emerged from a curiosity about the relationships between people, communities, organizations, and the environments that sustain them. Today, the practice supports organizations, communities, and institutions in navigating sustainability transitions through systems thinking, stakeholder engagement, collaborative implementation, and lifecycle-informed analysis.
At its core, Radicle Earth is grounded in the belief that meaningful sustainability is not only a technical challenge, but also a relational and organizational one. Lasting change depends upon our ability to understand our sense of place, build authentic relationships, strengthen collaboration, and align our values with our actions across interconnected living systems.
Our Roots
The roots of Radicle Earth began in the mountains of south-central Oregon while living off-grid and preparing to welcome my first child into the world.
Living closely with the land changed how I understood sustainability. The rhythms of nature became both teacher and guide, revealing how many everyday decisions are connected to larger ecological systems and future generations. Sustainability stopped being an abstract concept and became a responsibility.
Life also brought significant challenges. Housing instability, PTSD, and financial barriers repeatedly threatened my ability to continue my education and pursue long-term goals. Each obstacle became an opportunity to reassess, adapt, and move forward.
Those experiences shaped more than personal resilience. They cultivated a deeper understanding of how individuals, communities, and organizations navigate change, uncertainty, and transformation. Radicle Earth grew from this intersection of lived experience, sustainability education, systems thinking, ecopsychology, and Life Cycle Assessment.
Current Practice
Today, Radicle Earth supports sustainability initiatives across organizational, institutional, and community settings.
Drawing on experience in sustainability planning, stakeholder engagement, lifecycle assessment, social lifecycle assessment, municipal collaboration, and systems-based implementation, the practice helps stakeholders navigate complex sustainability challenges through practical and collaborative approaches.
Areas of practice include:
Sustainability Strategy and Planning
Stakeholder Engagement and Facilitation
Lifecycle Assessment (LCA)
Social Lifecycle Assessment (SLCA)
Organizational and Community Resilience
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Systems Analysis and Systems Thinking
Collaborative Implementation
Regenerative Transition Support
Current work includes collaboration with higher education institutions, community stakeholders, public agencies, and regional partners seeking practical pathways toward more sustainable and resilient futures. Our work is grounded in the belief that sustainability outcomes emerge through collaboration, stewardship, and practical implementation.
Our Approach
Many sustainability efforts focus primarily on technical solutions, policies, reporting frameworks, or compliance requirements. While these tools are important, meaningful and lasting change also depends upon relationships, participation, trust, and the capacity of people to work together across complex systems.
Radicle Earth recognizes that ecological well-being, organizational behavior, community resilience, and human relationships are deeply interconnected.
Our approach integrates systems thinking, stakeholder engagement, ecological systems awareness, and authentic participation to help create sustainability initiatives that are effective and enduring.
We believe lasting sustainability efforts emerge when values, relationships, and actions are aligned. Authentic participation creates the trust, collaboration, and shared ownership necessary for meaningful long-term change.
Rather than offering one-size-fits-all solutions, Radicle Earth works collaboratively with stakeholders to build context-specific strategies, strengthen relationships, and support implementation efforts that can evolve and adapt over time.
What Guides Our Work
Systems Thinking
Understanding challenges within larger social, ecological, and organizational systems.
Authentic Participation
Transparent, meaningful engagement, collaboration, and shared ownership.
Collaborative Stewardship
Supporting collective responsibility for the well-being of communities, organizations, and ecosystems.
Ecological Systems Awareness
Recognizing the interconnected relationships between human and environmental well-being.
Resilience
Building adaptive capacity that supports sustainable outcomes over time.