There is no human wealth or wellbeing without nature.
We are nature.
Oiko works to unite ecology and economy by treating nature as the foundation for the way we measure wealth and develop society
Why we work
There is no human wealth or wellbeing without nature - we are nature, and we depend on Earth’s biodiversity and functional ecosystems. Living, growing, and developing are biological traits and we as well as other species need to respect biodiversity in our decisions and budgets of value.
Oiko is from oikos, the Greek word for eco which means house, household or managing the resources of the house. Eco is in ecology and in economy, implying the discipline to manage the resources of both nature and financial values. For decades we have been neglecting our house, our real home, by overspending and creating debt to nature. It is time to pay back. This means no more business as usual but rather give more and take less.
How we work
Oiko is a platform to help stakeholders understand and make decisions based on knowledge about biodiversity. We make surveys and strategies, develop new ways forward and optimize collaboration with the goal of moving towards nature positive faster together.
We work with biodiversity as our center of gravity, everything we do should serve nature in the end. Biodiversity is a new topic for many people and disciplines outside the natural sciences. It is, however, especially professionals outside the natural sciences; economists, investors, planners, architects, managers etc. who need to integrate biodiversity into decisions and actions. Therefore, we strive to build the bridge between disciplines and to find new words and methods to ‘translate’ biodiversity into strategic targets and concrete action.
