Announced the Farmers Education Fund, created to support farmers as they transition towards better methods of low-impact planting, growing and harvesting whereby carbon emissions are reduced, soil quality is much improved and the production of crops is cleaner and healthier.

FutureFashion™ opens New York Fashion Week in January to a crowd of over 800 fashion industry experts, celebrities and influentials. The show was followed by a two week installation in the Barneys New York Madison Avenue window. The show generates millions of media impressions.

Installed first integrated green roof with photovoltaic and evaporative cooling research station in North America.

Published the first White Papers on sustainable fashion.

FutureFashion™ runway show and exhibit as part of New York City's first official Design Week.

Produced first Asian runway show in Malaysia featuring international designers, using sustainable textiles.

FutureFashion™ event with Mayor of Los Angeles to raise awareness for LA Fashion Week.

Installed first in-situ green roof research station to monitor temperature differentials and stormwater overflows.

Commissioned first thermophilic anaerobic digester in North America.
*Anaerobic digestion recovers gas from food waste and converts to fuel.

Earth Pledge presents Verdopolis: the Future Green City, the first sustainability summit of its kind. The event is a tremendous success, receiving coverage from the New York Times, Newsweek, Grist Magazine, Interior Design, SOMA, among others.

The FutureFashion™ Runway Show kicks off Verdopolis, featuring sustainable couture from designers such as Oscar de la Renta, As Four, Imitation of Christ, Loomstate, Diane von Furstenberg and more. The show generates serious interest and Earth Pledge launches the FutureFashion™ initiative.

With 13 stores participating in the largest charity event ever for Whole Foods Market, 5% day generates $50,000 to benefit Earth Pledge.

Orion Magazine, the Financial Times, and Interiors & Sources feature Earth Pledge for its efforts to green the rooftops of NYC. Display and Design Ideas feature Earth Pledge as a forerunner in innovative technology.

Earth Pledge published Green Roofs: Ecological Design and Construction, the essential green roof book, now available at bookstores.

Earth Pledge presents three European FutureFashion™ education events in Milan and Munich, promoting sustainable approaches to production and calling for industry standards to define sustainable materials.

Earth Pledge initiates the first local, scientific monitoring research programs to demonstrate and quantify the value of the benefits of green roofs in New York City. These projects definitively establish Earth Pledge as the leader in green roof research in NYC.

At Silvercup Studios, the Earth Pledge research team conducts comparative research measuring temperatures and storm water retention on green and conventional roof simulations. The team will determine the impact of green roofs on energy usage and combined sewage overflow.

At Gratz industries, Earth Pledge is installing the first in-situ energy and storm water monitor in NYC to measure temperatures and storm water overflow on an actual roof.

Carrying out its Greening Gotham vision with support from the EPA Region 2, Earth Pledge delivers tool to facilitate green roof implementation: the Green Roof Toolbox launched on greeninggotham.org

Under contract with the New York City Water Board and the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Earth Pledge produces a computer simulation program to calculate green roof storm water retention capabilities on buildings and the impact of potential green roof development on a sub-regulator basin of Newton Creek sewage treatment facility in lower Manhattan.

Continuing it's leadership in sustainable housing development, Earth Pledge brings four new green roofs to NYC communities most in need through Viridian partnerships, including the development of the GrandParent Family Apartments Green Space with WSFSSH.

Designer Oscar de la Renta, Loomstate designer Rogan Gregory, and Loomstate co-founder Scott Hahn join FutureFashion's board of advisors.

Earth Pledge receives the USEPA Region 2 Environmental Achievement Award and is named one of Interiors & Sources Magazine's Top 5 Environmental Champions.

The press devotes extensive coverage to Earth Pledge projects, including The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Biocycle, Environmental Design and Construction, and National Public Radio's Weekend Edition.

Earth Pledge partners with Whole Foods to hold 5% day benefit on Earth Day and conduct Whole Foods employee training sessions at local farms.

Earth Pledge establishes partnerships with Rutgers University to build the first small-scales anaerobic digester for food waste in North America at EcoComplex in Trenton, New Jersey.

Earth Pledge works with the Calhoun School to plan a Green Roof Learning Center atop the school's newly renovated Upper West Side Building.

Four Green roofs are completed with Viridian partners, including the Revella with West Side Federation for Senior Supportive Housing and the Rheingold Gardens with Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council.

Farm to Table receives a prestigious research grant from the Organic Farming Research Foundation to study the effect of compost tea as an organic and sustainable method of controlling disease in pumpkin crops.

The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times each feature Earth Pledge green roof projects.

Earth Pledge partners with Long Island Wine Council to host the first annual Windows on Long Island Wine tasting event to benefit Earth Pledge.

Earth Pledge reaches out to the business community with its symposium, The Business Case for Green Roofs. Building owners and developers presented top-and-bottom-line green roof benefits-from storm water management to energy cost reduction.

Waste=Fuel initiative holds its first symposium, The Future of Sustainable Solid Waste Management, introducing restaurant professionals, energy producers and suppliers, local state and national government officials, community organizers and academic institutions to the benefits of anaerobic digestion.

In conjunction with Brand Architecture International, Earth Pledge hosts Corporate Social Responsibility Symposium for an audience of 50 CEO's and senior executives from high profile companies.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Congressman Charles Rangel, Robert Kennedy, Jr., and many others sign onto GreeningGotham.org, Earth Pledges' visionary Web site.

Earth Pledge forms the Guardian Trust, an innovative public/private partnership that works with development companies and brown field site owners to turn contaminated properties into useful land by ensuring environmental clean-up standards are met and maintained.

The Earth Pledge staff moves into our new eco-office space, a 1902 Murray Hill townhouse and the former home of Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter. The office showcases cutting edge furnishings and appliances, constructed with recycled, and low and non-toxic materials, and a state-of-the-art green roof where staff scraps are composted and herbs and vegetables are grown.

Earth Pledge participates in Organic Odyssey, a creative New York press event. The event's hosts, OrganicWorks Marketing, convert a 6000 square foot Chelsea loft into a temporary stylish, organic, and eco-friendly home, complete with a kitchen and bedrooms. Earth Pledge designs the living room space and home office and is subsequently featured on Fox 22 News.

Earth Pledge hosts Greener by Design, the first symposium exclusively dedicated to exploring the advantages and feasibility of building garden roofs in New York City. Leading figures in the green roof movement in North America touch on the many ways in which vegetated roofs can contribute to the health of the city, its economy, and its inhabitants. The audience includes leaders in the fields of architecture, real estate, economic development, environmental protection, and manufacturing. The symposium marks the launch of the Earth Pledge Green Roof Initiative in New York.

Earth Pledge publishes Our World in Focus: Moving Towards a Sustainable Future, a dynamic and thought-provoking collection of photographs. Images from prestigious Magnum Photos agency and essays by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, Peter Seligmann, CEO of Conservation International, Tom Lovejoy, President of The Heinz Center, Alice Waters, chef and owner of Chez Panisse, Maurice Strong, special advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, and others, highlight the current state of mankind's relationship with the Earth, and poses the question, "Where do we go from here?" The book will be introduced at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa this August.

Earth Pledge launches its Waste = Fuel initiative to develop sustainable alternatives for managing NYC's massive organic waste flow. EP begins developing a series of small-scale anaerobic digestion facilities around the city.

Earth Pledge expands Green Roofs Initiative with the Viridian Project, a program providing technical and financial support for the construction of green roofs on low-and moderate-income housing.

Earth Pledge and its newly constructed green roof are featured in the New York Times.

Earth Pledge initiates Green Roof Policy Task Force, educating City, State and Federal agency representatives on the benefits of green roofs.

Earth Pledge hosts a film screening of One More Dead Fish, a compelling documentary about the plight of Nova Scotia's hand line fishermen who are fighting to save their livelihoods and protect the local marine ecosystem threatened by destructive industry practices. At once intensely personal and universally applicable, One More Dead Fish draws a crowd of over 100 viewers who enjoy the film and a post-screening panel discussion with Robert F. Kennedy, JR., and the filmmaker, Allan and Stefan Forbes.

Earth Pledge launched FarmtoTable.org, connecting consumers and food professionals to local farmers, and providing a place on the Internet for up-to-the-minute sustainable food news and information. FarmtoTable.org emphasizes the connections between buying local food and healthy public, economy, and environment, and the preservation of agricultural traditions and open space. The launch is covered by a number of publications including The New York Times, the Daily News, Wine Spectator, Cooking Light magazine.

Earth Pledge develops the Sustainable Cuisine Project and begins to teach Sustainable Cuisine Cooking Classes. The New York Times, Time Out NY, and New York Magazine spread the news.

NYC DNet is re-launched as Savvyvoter.org, a nonpartisan online election forum and information resource for New York City votes. Savvyvoter attracts great press and proves to be a useful tool during highly charged state and national elections.

Earth Pledge publishes Sustainable Architecture White Papers, a handsome companion to our Sustainable Cuisine White Papers with essays by Paul Hawken, William McDonough, Diana Balmori, Samuel Mockbee, Norman Foster, Hillary Brown, Wendy Talarico, and more.

Earth Pledge published Sustainable Cuisine White Papers featuring essays by Paul Newman, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., NOFA-NY, the Grateful Dead's Bob Weir, and others. The book attracts great press from the St. Louis-Post Dispatch, Time and Saveur magazines, as well as endorsement from chefs Alice Waters and Nora Pouillon.

Earth Pledge hosts the Earth Day Sustainable Cuisine Dinner, inviting 10 top chefs to prepare dinner and discuss the theory and promotion of sustainable cuisine. Over 200 guests attend.

Earth Pledge begins construction on WorkSpace 2000, our permanent showcase from green building practices and products. Located in an historic townhouse on East 38th Street, WorkSpace will serve at the offices for Earth Pledge, as well as a technology and distance-learning center for other New York City nonprofit organizations.

George Soros' Open Society Institute provides a grant for Earth Pledge to create the New York City Democracy Network (NYC DNet), a project that encourages public participation in New York's November 1998 elections via the World Wide Web. In 2000 NYC DNet is given a new face and a new name, Savvyvoter.org

Earth Pledge's Division for Sustainable Media launches a free seminar series, "New Basics 101: What Every Nonprofit Needs to Know about the Internet" Both Apple and Microsoft host individual seminars.

Metropolis, the venerable design and architecture magazine partners with Earth Pledge to create Metropolis Online, the digital companion to the magazine's monthly print edition.

Earth Pledge creates Showcase New York, New Jersey, & Connecticut. For two years, with support from Microsoft, Earth Pledge delivered much needed technology to the nonprofit communities of NY, NJ, and CT.

Robert Rauschenberg creates and donates to Earth Pledge 100 signed and numbered prints based on his work of art entitled Clan Destiny. Earth Pledge uses the proceeds to support the 1996 Conference on Human Settlements, also known as the UN City Summit. Clan Destiny hangs in the plenary hall of the conference where representatives from more than ninety nations are in attendance. The Conference concludes the United Nations series of world gatherings that began with the Earth Summit.

Earth Pledge creates the Business Coalition for Sustainable Cities (BCSC) to address the critical problems that our cities face and to explore sustainable solutions. Earth Pledge & the BCSC distribute the well-received, Sustainable Cities White Papers at the UN Conference of Human Settlements. The book includes statements on how business, government, and the private sector can work together to promote sustainability.

Earth Pledge holds its first Sustainable Cuisine Dinner at the UN Delegates Dining Room. Sponsored by the BCSC, Chefs Collaborative 200, Oldways Preservation & Trust, and MasterCard International, and prepared by 11 of the nation's most environmentally conscious chefs, the dinner helps promote the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements.

Earth Pledge enters into a strategic alliance with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote and support sustainable development programs.

By uploading news stories and photographs from the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China, Earth Pledge promotes one of the most important global gatherings on sustainable development and women ever held.

Earth Pledge begins publication of Otherwise, a bimonthly review of books on sustainable development. Otherwise remains in print for two years, reaching an audience of thousands through a network of independent bookstores.

Earth Pledge launches an Internet-based essay contest on sustainable development. People from all over the world participate.

Earth Pledge organizes the First Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism in association with the United Nations Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development, EarthKind International, and UNEP. The conference is an overwhelming success, bringing together government, business, and environmental leaders to discuss the implementation and promotion of sustainable tourism efforts. In preparation for the conference, Earth Pledge coins the term Sustainable Cuisine and presents it at the conference.

Earth Pledge creates the Division for Sustainable Media, a Web group dedicated to promoting the use of the Internet by and for the non-profit company.

Leslie Hoffman is named Earth Pledge's Executive Director and The Earth Times is spun off as an independent organization.

Robert Rauschenberg contributes another limited edition of 200 prints to Earth Pledge based on his new work, Choices and Responsibilities. The proceeds are used to support promotion of the 1994 United Nations Conference on Population and Development held in Cairo, Egypt.

Earth Pledge creates its first Web site to market the prints and posters. Japanese retailer Felissimo generously donates fulfillment.

Sale of the Rauschenberg prints generates close to $1 million, which is used to finance the launch of The Earth Summit Times. The paper still exists today as The Earth Times.

The delegates of 178 nations in attendance at the Earth Summit unanimously endorse Agenda 21, a historic document based on the concept of sustainable development, defined as "development meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs".

Concerned about the intensifying clash between environmentalists and developers despite the explicit findings and recommendations in Agenda 21, Kheel adopts the promotion of sustainable development as Earth Pledge's primary goal.

The Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit) asks Theodore W. Kheel to chair a committee to promote the Earth Pledge (a commitment to protect the earth) and stimulate interest in the upcoming 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Kheel forms the Earth Pledge Foundation (EPF) and enlists the support of friend and internationally recognized artist Robert Rauschenberg. Rauschenberg creates Last Turn, Your Turn, the official artwork of the Earth Summit, and donates a limited edition of 200 prints to raise funds to promote the conference.