About Adam
We exist to help combat climate change by fostering a sense of ownership of the natural world. When more people feel they have a stake in the future of our planet, they feel a sense of responsibility to act on its behalf.
Adam Lazarus has spent a lifetime exploring how tiny creatures give us big ideas, and strengthen our connection to the environment upon which we depend. “You can’t ask someone to protect what they don’t love, and you can’t ask someone to love what they don’t know,” says Adam. “Bugs are a means to give students ownership over some small piece of nature, and this fosters a sense of responsibility for the world at large.”
Adam taught middle school science in the Silver Lake and Watts communities, becoming a Discovery Channel Science Superstar for his work in education. Prior to that, his adventures and mishaps in the dogged pursuit of bugs have brought him to the TEDx stage, and served as the basis for Bug Bites, a kid’s science show he created and hosted on PBS and KCET. Adam began his career in primary research on insects, collaborating with Harvard, Duke, Stanford, and NASA Astrobiology- the search for extraterrestrial life. His posts at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and the Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology in Okinawa, Japan focused on big data analysis of ant evolution, and bacterial endosymbiosis in insects.
His current work is focused on enabling students to have an outsized positive impact on the health of the climate, achieving this through targeted activism and science projects with high yield results.
My Philosophy
Nature reveals solutions to some of our biggest problems, making life more profitable in every sense
Using nature, I help people reflect on their professional and personal lives. This is possible because we study nature with less emotional attachment than we do ourselves and other close, personal relationships.
There are analogs in nature for all of the ways we govern ourselves, conduct business, and use resources.
Sometimes it’s hard to see a pattern when we ourselves are but a tiny piece of that pattern. Observing from a birdseye view allows natural analogs to unfold and gives us foresight into how well our own strategies are going to work.
My Mission
To help combat climate change by fostering a sense of ownership of the natural world. When more people feel they have a stake in the future of our planet, we feel a sense of responsibility to act on its, and our, behalf.
I’m focused on enabling students to have an outsized positive impact on the health of the climate, achieving this through targeted activism and science projects with high yield results.
