The Vision

This campaign is committed to inspiring and educating the next generation of environmental stewards. Through adventure, research, education and with a simple global narrative, it will drive sustained cultural change. Every human being can help and catalyse a global effort to rewild the vital ecosystems required to sustain human life. Our mission is achieved through:

• Advancing research into micro and nano plastics and understanding the physiological response of the body in remote, isolated areas.
  

• Inspire millions of children not only to plant new tress throughout their lifetime but also to champion the protection of existing forests and flora, underlining the crucial importance of preserving our natural world.
• Harnessing the success of the expeditions to change our culture around the understanding of the environment and leave a legacy on Earth.

Expediting crucial research essential to the future of climate and human health

Supporting human performance and understanding how the body functions in remote and isolate places.

A collaboration with the Department of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) will enable a study with consideration to an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention.

The study will generate research extending our understanding of the temporal and dynamic nature of human performance in ice environments, such as Antarctic stations, spacecraft, and submarines, emphasising its complexity and challenges.

Co-ordinated by Professor Andy McCann (Department of Psychology at MMU) and Dr Ben Kelly (Nutfield Health), the support to Spiritus encompasses the integration of physical, psychological, psychosocial, neurodynamic and neurobehavioral adaptation over three distinct high-demand phases: before (preparing), during (performing) and after (recovering and readjusting).

The evidence is clear. We are losing trees at a rate that far exceeds our ability to replace them. In order for life to thrive, earth must be resuscitated.

Mission Spiritus will inspire millions of children to plant a new tree every year throughout their lifetime, as well as preserve existing forests and flora, contributing to the global objective of planting 1 billion new trees by 2058.

Young people are at the centre of our ambition.

With a shared mission to impact our community and environment with positive and permanent change, Mission Spiritus has partnered with Spirit Ed to reach and educate over 20,000 children.

Mission Spiritus will co-create resources for teachers to engage pupils in geography, sustainability, and how to combat deforestation. Inspiring an appetite for adventure, using ‘Lessons from The Ice’ we can open young minds to a global perspective.

We must ensure individual learning is deep and relevant, broad, and balanced, and most important, human centric.

They will grow up to inhabit a very different world, each as global citizens, and they should be well-equipped to take action.

Spirit Ed know that by releasing a spirit of optimism and equipping children with ample knowledge, that we can achieve more than we thought possible.

They are in the wind systems that control our weather, far beneath the ocean’s surface, in the water we drink, even in our washing machines. They exist in practically every part of life as we know it – impacting not only human life, but other species too.

Nearly 99% of plastic waste degrades into smaller, nearly invisible particles called Nanoplastics. They enter the human body through our ingestion and inhalation, flowing in and around our blood stream. They are pervasive enough to migrate to organs, including the brain and cross the placental barrier in utero.

The consequences are serious.

The need to understand with certainty the unavoidable environmental impact of this plastic waste on humans (and other species) is urgent and we must respond with evidence-based findings that will empower real-world solutions.