Where the earth is at the heart of health.
Who We Are
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Tenmund Foundation exists to put the earth back at the center of human health.
We believe the sustainability crisis is, underneath everything, a storytelling crisis: an abundance of data and a shortage of meaning.
So we bring together the people who understand the science and the people who understand the human heart, and we give them a shared table.
What comes out of it — films, essays, exhibitions, campaigns, research translated into language people actually feel — is sustainable storytelling: narrative built on evidence, and evidence built to be understood.
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A world where the health of the planet and the health of its people are treated as the same story — because they are.
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Somewhere between the lab and the living room, the truth about our planet gets lost in translation.
Scientists publish. Journalists summarize. Audiences scroll past.
Tenmund exists to close that gap: by giving sustainable science a story worth stopping for.
What Do We Do?
What Do We Do?
Sustainable Storytelling.
We call our work sustainable storytelling: narrative accurate enough to trust, and human enough to remember. But it looks different depending on who's holding the pen!
Sometimes it's a scientist learning to write for a reader who isn't one.
Sometimes it's a filmmaker sitting inside a research station for a season.
Sometimes it's an elder's account of a river that used to run differently.
But these records? They are always truth, shaped by care and built to travel.
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Story
Every dataset has a human story hiding inside it. We find it, and we help tell it — through film, writing, design, and every medium in between.
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Science
Good storytelling starts with getting it right. We work directly with researchers and institutions so that what moves people is also what's true.
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Community
The earth's health is never just an abstraction to the people living closest to the change. We center the voices of those communities, not just their data points.
Tenmund is a collision of several kinds of people.
Ecologists, essayists, data scientists, documentary filmmakers, policy researchers, poets.
We believe the biggest ideas in sustainability come from the friction and collaboration between disciplines.
If your work belongs in many worlds at once, you're exactly who we built this for.
The “T” stands for transdisciplinary.
