Mark Moore
Founder and President
“ Mark Moore is a social entrepreneur, educator, producer, artist, and writer. He is founder and president of the Earthville Network, a charitable organization for a compassionate global village, with projects in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the USA. ”
Mark Moore is an eco-social entrepreneur, creative media producer, artist, and writer with fifteen years experience in the nonprofit sector, including over a decade living and working internationally, and over twenty years of experience in the music industry, from composition to production to retail.
As president of the Earthville Network, Moore divides his time between Asia, Europe, and the US, launching and managing initiatives for sustainability, peace, and responsible global citizenship through service-learning, cross-cultural collaboration, and the arts.
In 1997, Moore cofounded the first Earthville project in the Indian Himalayas as the foundation stone of his vision for a global network of local initiatives for sustainable and compassionate living. He incorporated the Earthville Network in the US in 2000 and, over the next decade, forged an international constellation of a dozen projects across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the USA, united in the Earthville mission to cultivate local community initiatives contributing to a more compassionate and sustainable global village.
Currently, Moore’s focus is establishing the most ambitious Earthville project yet: an institute for sustainable village development and contemplative ecotourism in the Himalayas, with programs serving the Indian and international communities.
As a cultural creative, viewing creativity as one of humanity’s greatest resources, Moore continues to devote a portion of his time to his work as a music producer, recording artist, and designer, and he volunteers his production talents for Earthville’s nonprofit record label and documentary film projects. He also writes on sustainability, education, politics, and travel.
Moore earned a BA with dual majors in Political Studies (international focus) and Creative Production from Pitzer College in Claremont, California. Since then, he has continued both formal and informal studies of sustainable development issues, culture, philosophy, contemplative traditions of the world, and the vernacular architecture of the Himalayas. An insatiable explorer and "citizen of Earthville," he has traveled in over 50 countries, is conversant in several languages, and is an avid student of communication and collaboration in all its forms.
Mark Moore is available is available for interviews, consulting, and public speaking on diverse topics including the following: innovative models for charitable organizations, sustainable development and green living, experiential education and service-learning, peacemaking and cross-cultural collaboration. His regional expertise is primarily in South and Southeast Asia (with special emphasis on India, Nepal, the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau), including history, culture, political and socio-economic issues, spiritual and contemplative traditions, and prospects for sustainable development and ecotourism in the region.
