Lighthouse Foundation

Our theme is the sea and the hu­man be­ing. And the fur­ther we pro­gress, the more clearly we are com­ing to re­cog­nize the ex­tent of hu­man in­flu­ence on nat­ural pro­cesses in the seas and oceans. Find­ing new an­swers on the global eco­lo­gical crisis is at the heart of the found­a­tion. Sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment de­mands long-term, hol­istic-ori­ented ac­tion and is not to be re­duced to the sus­tain­able use of mari­time re­sources. The im­port­ant thing is to make it clear that the nat­ural world in its bio­lo­gical and phys­ical phe­no­men­o­logy is of value per se and can­not be re­duced to the isol­ated as­pect of sat­is­fac­tion of hu­man needs.