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The TRS Pillars: Interconnected Sustainable Model

The foundation will design and create a sustainable structure to serve not only as an example of sustainability, but more importantly, as a destination and an environment for best-in-class minds to explore, engineer, create, and innovate. Its purpose is to inspire and challenge convention while producing a plethora of ideas for solving or improving current or future societal, economic and environmental dilemmas. From these ideas, new organizations, innovations and other entities will be realized – all of which will be optimized through extensive focus with the TRS principles.
The interconnectivity of the foundation will support and develop these entities and their respective endeavors, and will promote sustainability and a radical, yet necessary, manner of daily life. These entities and innovations support and promote the underlying mission of the foundation – leading to greater interest and attention from others. With more of society educated and participatory, the foundation’s overarching goal of building an interconnected sustainable society will be further realized.
TRS Foundation is based on sustainable compassion and ethics and the belief that each clear- minded person or entity is capable and privileged of positive contribution. We foster connections with like-minded organizations and individuals passionate about ushering in a new age – The Karunopia Age. Connect with us to enlighten and empower – to rejuvenate and reincarnate a compassionate society that the civilization demands and deserves.
Karunopia – The environment and condition of perfect integration between compassion and ethics. The English word compassion is used to translate the Sanskrit “karuna” which is etymologized as “suspending happiness”. To feel compassion, you must turn away slightly from your own focus on superficial happiness to sense the true condition of others. Honestly facing their pains. This is considered the key ingredients to establish the reason for being, and method of behavior.

TRS Pillars represent broad, high-level categories that The Foundation has identified, and seeks to make sustainable

The underlying importance of the TRS Pillars is to create collaboration amongst varying industries and disciplines and to instigate cross-pollination of technologies, innovations, ideas and knowledge both between and within each pillar. We create intellectual property and establish companies with amazing technologies and innovations within each pillar so that they are self-sustainable (for-profit). Each of these entities, however, will always give a significant portion of its resources back to The Foundation for further growth and collaboration. These resources can be in the form of innovations, knowledge, products, finance, partnerships, etc.

Education Pillar

Education is broad, but powerful. Most issues and conflicts in the world occur because of a lack of education or knowledge on some end. In this way, TRS Education pillar partners with TRS Media pillar to act as the delivery system of truth and knowledge that society needs and demands. This delivery system is the cornerstone from which each of the other pillars flourishes. TRS educates about dangerous diseases, demonstrates how to use available and new technologies, and empowers to learn and teach through advance communication methodologies. Education will come in many different forms, both conventional and unconventional.

Science Pillar

Much like the other pillars, the TRS Science pillar is large and broad and isn’t as simple sounding as its name makes it seem. It spans every possible field and every possible technology. The TRS Science pillar isn’t about incremental development upon the best technologies for the sake of innovation. What is the point of a fantastic technology that can only be used or benefited by 0.001% of the world? Instead, TRS Science pillar researches and develops sustainable innovations – ones that adapt to suit varying types of situations and communities. The reason being because research and innovation in science are only as valuable as they are implementable and useable by society as a whole. 

Media Pillar

Media is arguably the most important TRS pillar. TRS Media pillar will provide a means of communication and collaboration to partners, volunteers, employees and the general public through traditional and untraditional form. Partnering with TRS Education pillar, TRS Media will spread truth and knowledge using the most powerful tools, and will be sustainable in two ways: delivery mechanism and actual content. A monthly subscription that changes every day is not sustainable, as people will forget what was important last week and only pay attention to today’s “hot topic”. Our content itself will follow the 5 A’s of integrity as they are fundamental to TRS Foundation’s mission. 

5As of Integrity:  1. Accountability of speaker. 2. Accuracy of information. 3. Authorship of message. 4. Adaptability of information.  5. Authenticity/Believability 

Food Pillar

With one child dying of hunger every 5 seconds, TRS Food pillar has much work to be done. Everyone needs to eat and live – TRS Food makes it healthy and safe for everyone with responsibility, capability, and authority. Sustainable food does not solely mean creating foods in a sustainable manner or with sustainable ingredients; it means being able to empower communities to support themselves through sustainable food technologies. 

While a large portion of TRS Food will be for humanitarian relief during times of crisis, it is much more encompassing because starvation comes in many forms. For example, illiteracy is starvation of knowledge/education. Global domination from linear innovation starves the rest of the world by being the best, allowing no room for integration or collaboration. Food is the fuel for innovation; the knowledge for education; the ideas for science; and a mechanism for media. TRS Food will be responsible for harvesting knowledge, compassion, innovation, and other types of food to nourish society’s numerous forms of starvation.

Commerce Pillar

The TRS Commerce pillar is perhaps the most revolutionary of all the pillars. It will seek to completely transform the view of value in each and every business entity of society. Each entity’s value should be measured by how much positive impact they can affect, not by its ability to maximize economic return. No longer will the number of branches, satellite offices, product offerings, industries served and market share take precedence. Instead, it will matter most how much each entity can immediately improve the quality of life for its stakeholders. The Nasdaq Sustainable 50 Index provide a mechanism to not just encourage the behavior, but also practice the philosophy.

Additionally, TRS Commerce pillar sets out to create a new type of social currency where individuals’ skills and knowledge can be traded. An example would be comparing a company that has four extremely well educated and highly qualified employees versus one that has one hundred mediocre workers. The company with four employees should be more valuable even if the other has higher production. 

Energy Pillar

Much like the other pillars, TRS Energy pillar is all encompassing, and is not as simple as it may seem. The Foundation doesn’t view sustainable energy as simplistically as wind, solar, etc. Instead, sustainable energy is about how easily energy technologies adapt and are integrated into varying communities to satisfy their needs. There be will no cure-all sustainable energy that frees the world from its energy crisis. This brings even more importance to The Foundation’s central mission of collaboration amongst varying industries so that it may establish integrated energy technologies that build off one another. This aspect of sustainable energy, however, does not capture the entirety of the TRS Energy pillar. When The Foundation speaks of energy, it is also speaking on behalf of the energy within each member of our society, and his or her individual and communal contributions back to that society. These contributions can come in numerous ways such as knowledge, innovations, connections, infrastructure, time and monetary donations to name a few. Integral to The Foundation’s beliefs is that each member of society is capable of positive contribution in some shape or form.