Our Mission

New Earth is a Non-Profit 501(c)(3) organization. Our mission is to provide programs and services built on the pillars of expression, education, environment and wellness. Our services empower people of all ages, backgrounds and cultures to tap into their unrealized creative potential.

Our Vision

We envision people of all communities, backgrounds and cultures realizing freedom through discovery of the innermost depths of self-expression that resides in all of us.

"We are the Ones we've been waiting for!"
- Hopi saying

About us

New Earth's values are based on self-expression anchored by well-being and awareness education. Our programs assist seekers in opening up to their true essence of "Self" and "Community" by integrating principles of self-awareness and teamwork. Holistically minded, we also educate on the importance of growing organic foods, using green energy and nurturing the environment. We began as an open platform for the community to express its inner voice and have grown into a multi- faceted organization that has been shaped by the community to address the community's needs. We are committed to making dreams a reality through right listening and right action.

Our organization is facilitated by various unique individuals that move with the vision of community building.

New Earth is built on the 4 pillars of Expression, Education, Environment and Wellness.

Harry Grammer IV

Founder and President

Harry Grammer brings his visionary spirit, along with an extensive background in leadership and human relations to the organization. In 1993, Grammer attended the California State University of Northridge, majoring in Business Administration, with an emphasis in Management Information Systems. Then, in 1997 he began his career as a Projects Team Leader at Toyota Motor Corporation, #2 on the Fortune 500 Top International Firms. At Toyota, his job responsibilities included: project management and strategic planning. In June 2001, Grammer, a gifted artist and speaker, walked away from his position with Toyota Motor Company to fulfill his visions of loving the world back to health. Since then he stood by his commitment to become a writer, poet, musician and filmmaker who delivers a powerful message and inspires people to realize their potential. In 2001, Grammer co-directed the 2001 documentary "Voices of America". Along with two friends, he sought out to capture the American viewpoint in the wake of 9/11. Within two days of the tragedy, they hit the road with a two cameras and an intention. The film was completed and later premiered in a series of major Hollywood theatres. "Voices of America" featured 500 voices from families, students, children, elderly and homeless in 35 states, filmed within a 30 day time span. In August 2002, Grammer took an inner journey that would later spawn the vision for New Earth. He launched the premier New Earth program, Expression Mondays in a small coffee shop in Hollywood. Once Expression Mondays began, New Earth could unfold, as Grammer inspired a team of leaders that would begin to see the vision into reality. Before its completion in 2006 Expression Mondays drew thousands through its doors. Averaging over 85 people a night, in a space that holds only 45. Inside of this thriving community, Grammer continues to create visions and inspiring people to following their dreams.

Yana Simone

Executive Director

Yana Simone has over ten years of experience managing and growing organizations; building, leading and training teams; and being involved in all areas of the creative process — from product development to publishing and advertising. Simone directs aspects of program development, implementation, management, strategic planning, and organizational development. Simone is also a poet and writer.

Eva Stattine

Good Medicine Team

Eva Stattine, L.Ac. holds a Master's degree in Traditional Oriental Medicine and is a licensed acupuncturist/herbalist and massage therapist. Eva began her education in alternative and complementary medicine in her early teens, apprenticing under two accomplished herbal healers in the Colorado Mountains. From her training she learned not only the medicinal value of local plants and herbs, but also a way of living in harmony with nature, a way that promotes a healthy body, a balanced mind and an alignment with spirit. Studying Traditional Oriental medicine opened her to the ancient wisdom and spiritual philosophy of acupuncture and Chinese herbalism (as well as) The art of energy cultivation through Qi Gong and meditation, (which) has become one of the most significant guide posts and foundations of her practice. Her intention as a person moving through this modern day is to follow Gandhi's path of: "Be the change you wish see in the world".

Board of Directors

Carter Dewberry

New Earth Board Secretary and Director of The Definiens Project

Carter Dewberry recently completed her DMA in Chamber Music Performance from UCLA in December, 2005. She received her MM in Cello Performance from UCLA in June, 2002 and her B.M. in Cello Performance from Western Michigan University in April, 1998. She also holds a B.A. in French with a minor in Women's Studies and Philosophy. Ms. Dewberry is currently a member of the Robin Cox Ensemble and The Definiens Project. She is also the Director and Founder of The Definiens Project, whose mission is to redefine chamber music in a contemporary context. Both of these ensembles strive to incorporate multi-media elements into programming that consists largely of commissioned and recently published compositions.

Paul Stevenson

Foley Artist, Universal Studios

Working as a Foley Artist, Paul recreates almost every sound that a moviegoer or television viewer expects to hear. Foley Artists are an essential element of producing a professional-sounding soundtrack, because only dialogue is recorded at the time of production. Every other sound has to be physically recreated and synced in post-production. Over the past seven years, Paul has worked as an independent Foley Artist for Fox Studios, Sony Studios, Paramount Studios, Warner Brothers, as well as smaller sound studios. He is currently an employee of Universal Studios. Prior to becoming a Foley Artist, Paul acted in independent stage and screen productions. He attended California State University, Northridge and Circle and the Square Theater School in New York. Paul is committed to aiding non-profit organizations and devotes time to a number of organizations.

Jennifer Stevenson

Marketing Director, Dataflight Software, Inc.

Jennifer Stevenson has over 10 years of marketing expertise and has acquired a rich background in high-tech marketing working for established, as well as high-growth, start-up organizations. Prior to joining Dataflight, Stevenson was the Director of Marketing for Event411, the leading corporate planning ASP for the Fortune 500. Previously, as Marketing Communications Manager for Design Intelligence, she played a key role in the launch of the company and helped to gain wide exposure for its first multi-media publishing application and subsequent acquisition by Microsoft.

As Marketing Director of Dataflight Software, Stevenson is responsible for the development and implementation of Dataflight's strategic marketing plans, market positioning, communications, and partner development. Stevenson holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington and a master's diploma from the University of London. She has a long history of actively volunteering for non-profit arts and advocacy organizations such as the Seattle Art Museum, Center on Contemporary Arts, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation, LA Works, Driving Votes, and New Earth.

Stephanie Swanson

Attorney and Health Care Advocate, VPIRG

Stefanie Sidortsova is a writer, lawyer, and activist. She currently lives in central Vermont and works as an advocate for health care reform with the Vermont Public Interest Research Group. Stefanie received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and her Juris Doctorate from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. In addition to being a New Earth board member, Stefanie serves as President of the Jirani Project, a 501(c)(3) grassroots organization that provides homeless and orphaned children in Kenya with funding for food, clothing, and education. She also volunteers as a Guardian Ad Litem (advocate for a child's best interests and rights throughout the child's involvement in the court process) in Vermont's Orange County Family Court system. An avid writer, Stefanie is working on a collection of short stories and hopes to complete her first novel this November during National Novel Writing Month.

Gene Fox

Elementary School Teacher, L.A. Unified School District

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Eugene Fox has been immersed in the rich history and culture of the City of Angels, his entire life. A theatre major, Fox graduated from Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles with a B.A. in Theatre Arts. Inspired by his belief that theatre makes people think, Fox went on to cultivate young minds and hearts by teaching theatre and horticulture at Highland Hall, a Waldorf School in Northridge between the years of 1976 and 1986. During that time, Fox developed a love for horticulture and an immense respect for working with the earth. In 1983, he studied French Intensive Horticulture with Alan Chadwick, an expert in the field. With his newfound expertise in the art of horticulture, Fox began a landscaping and painting business in 1986 which he operated through 1998. He still retains his landscaping and painting contractor license.

Having gained success in the business world, Fox felt that something was still missing. He couldn't seem to escape his desire to plant precious seeds of knowledge into fertile young minds. Filled with all of the knowledge and life experience that he'd attained, Fox went back to school, teaching second graders at the L.A. Unified School District — and has been there for the past eight years.

Gene Fox is a member of the New Earth board of directors, where he brings his expertise and inspiration for teaching kids and working with the earth. He's involved in the training and facilitation aspects of the New Earth Organic Community Garden, where he passes on valuable lessons on cultivating, planting, growing and harvesting as well as the fundamental principles of caring for the earth. Fox's vision for New Earth is that more people in urban cities become involved with growing their own food and develop a profound relationship with nature.

Additional Board Members include:

Harry Grammer
Yana Simone

Workshops

No current workshops

F.L.O.W. Youth

Through poetic expression, F.L.O.W instills a sense of self-confidence, by empowering underserved youth between ages 12-18 years old to think outside the box of social stigma and inspiring them to make powerful choices in their everyday lives. In helping them to discover their unique voice, they begin to realize themselves as artists, creators and instruments of positive change in society.

"Where you will sit when you are old shows where you stood in youth."
- African Proverb

A $100 contribution one hour of a F.L.O.W. class for 30 kids! Make A Donation

The Program

• Intensive 12 week interactive expression program
• Currently reaching youth ages 12-18
• Serving youth in public school classroom, after-school programs, correctional facilities and foster care centers
• Fosters creativity, communication and confidence
• Builds individual self respect
• A positive experience the students take with them and affect their entire lives

OUTCOMES

• Violence prevention
• Social consciousness and awareness
• A sense of freedom and ease in groups and among peers
• Sense of self-esteem and accomplishment as creative artists
• Changes in attitude toward authority figures
• A deep sense of connection to oneself
• Empowered to make positive choices in life
• Seeing possibilities arise in all areas of life

Facilities We Serve:

• Camp Gonzalez Probation Camp, Malibu, CA
• Olympic High School, Santa Monica, CA

Organic Garden

Ecological education at the garden is a conscious response to the urgent environmental call of our times, which aims at the creation of conditions for sustainable living and its vital consolidation on Earth.

Plants and greening activities play at least three distinct roles in community development.

They:

• provide a more livable environment by controlling physical factors such as temperature, noise, and pollution;
• help create a community image that is perceived as positive by both residents and outsiders; and
• create opportunities for people to work together to improve communities in many ways.

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These three factors translate directly into tangible economic and social benefits, such as reduced crime, higher property values in greened areas, nutritious food from community gardens, and increased business activity in attractive, green neighborhoods.

Anyone who has retreated from the hot asphalt of a city street to the shade of a nearby tree understands the importance that plants can play in regulating environmental conditions. But energy-saving shade is not the only benefit that plants offer, as a landmark 1994 study of Chicago's urban forest found: they also play a valuable role in reducing air pollution, controlling climate, and saving energy.

Such physical benefits may explain why a variety of psychological studies have found that plants help foster positive community images. In a 1985 study of apartment dwellers, for example, Stephen Kaplan found that "the most important factors in neighborhood satisfaction were the availability of nearby trees, well-landscaped grounds, places for taking walks, and opportunities to grow plants, were significantly related to the sense of community." The New Earth Organic Garden makes it possible for people to experience a new sense gardening.

We offer:

• Opportunity for people to learn about organic growing, ecological sustainability and partnership while tending to the environment
• Take home fresh organic produce in exchange for your participation
• Expression stage in development for youth and adults
• Community gathering space
• Multiple active beds and an herb garden

Calendar

Housing from CalEarth Eco-domes

Ecovillage

The Forgotten City

Our Mother Earth is beautiful, and our father heaven, the inner eternal evenness of the ocean's horizon, sees her and moves toward her. At the moment of their joining, Man speaks and the City is born. This story is told silently at sunrise when we, in wonder, say "wow". This story is forgotten every morning when we wake to an alarm rather than the sun, and move through the world with our cars rather than our minds and our legs. What has been lost can be clearly and easily seen in the current state of our city. And one doesn't have to look long or hard to see it, but simply be willing both to admit what was lost and to change it. This involves sacrifice. This sacrifice, appearing in the willingness, the act, and the plan of the city, is the beginning of the reemergence of life and vitality to our communities that take the form of "cities". From here the institutions can begin again to move toward their full expression. The first institution of the city, in terms of the physical appearance, to change would be the street. A whole new relationship between the street and transportation would have to come to fruition, first emerging from man's willingness to walk a little with his own two legs. In this way the street can again be a meeting place of men, minds, hearts and heavens. When the city's blood vessels are healed and cleared, the heart can begin to pump healthily again also. A sense of centrality and unity, without necessarily a literal or geographical center, can begin to emerge again also. A sense of the sacredness of things must be reestablished, and we must learn again to let our adoration of our earth actually determine the things we do, rather than occasionally arise in us a sense of emotional nostalgia during vacations.

This child called civilization born from the mouth of man by the earth and heavens was once a child. It grew into adulthood and further. It is now like a silent and bitter old man sitting in a torn and dusty old black recliner blind and unamused by watching TV, that box of black unearthliness imprisoning simulated images from heaven's lights. When man turns his outer eye from the TV to the horizon, the natural result of turning his inner eye to the Light, the meeting place of earth and heaven, his cities will again at least seek a harmony between the two.

- Jason Hesiak, Architect for New Earth

We are currently in the process of visioning and receiving a donation to begin the development of this ecovillage/retreat center. If you are interested in getting involved click here...

The New Earth Ecovillage is one that aligns itself with practices and principles of a sustainable community.
These are the 6 elements that interlace to create sustainability:

• Ecological
• Social
• Spiritual
• Economical
• Cultural
• Expression

• Ecological

1. Earth Restoration
2. Green Energy (Water, Solar, Wind)
3. Green Energy (Water, Solar, Wind)
4. On-site and local organic food production and recirculation
5. Compost toilets and soil processes
6. Permaculture integrated into the Ecovillage and structural design
7. On-site Production and usage of biofuels such as biodiesel
8. Biodiverse gardens and animals
9. On-going training and education in ecological sustainability
10. Recreation park

• Social

1. Building community
2. Decision-making (Council)
3. Education and communication
4. Living and learning
5. Sharing
6. Conflict-resolution
7. Holistic medicines and preventative healthcare
8. Well-being and exercise training
9. Outreach into other communities
10. Events

• Spiritual Attunement

1. Personal unfoldment workshops given by qualified teachers
2. Civic responsibilities
3. Indigenous ceremonies and practices
4. Community rituals of celebration and wholeness
5. Village schooling for children
6. Discovery games and discussions
7. Finding oneness by uniting with Earth
8. Incorporating New Earth Philosophies and Vision

• Cultural

1. Honoring and celebrating individual cultures
2. Educating on differences and uniqueness
3. Art installations representing our different backgrounds

• Expression

1. Provide an open platform for people to artistically express them through their chosen medium.
2. Create education through entertainment i.e. edu-tainment.

Major points

• New Earth Village will be built from the ground up using natural materials and holistic infrastructures.
• Builders and Designers are TBD
• New Earth Organization 501 c (3) and individuals within the community would share ownership of the village.

For more information and an in-depth overview of the project call Harry Grammer at 310-455-2847 or [Non disclosed address, use contact form.]