Esperian Vision Enterprises, or E.V.E. (named for a fictional sustainable society in Will Bonsall’s eco-novel, Through the Eyes of a Stranger), is focused on making the local community, state, and region more self-reliant for food and energy.

It currently consists of four divisions: E.V.E.'s Market (a health food store), E.V.E.'s Kitchen (a plant-based food processing facility including bakery, cannery, freezing, etc.), E.V.E. Farms (as a source of much of the produce feeding the other divisions, in cooperation with other local organic farmers), and E.V.E. Foundation, the only division which is not designed to make money and will initially consist primarily of the Scatterseed Project. 

Another division, E.V.E. Energy, will initially focus on providing sustainable energy (wind, PV solar, solar and wastewood-fired boiler, microhydro, etc.) for supplying E.V.E.'s own energy needs and ultimately selling onto the grid. It's a very broad vision, but starts with very modest resources, some of which are already in place, and builds on those in a propagative manner by each division generating the investment funds to expand the others. As this enterprise proceeds and succeeds, we hope to present it as a real-world model for other entrepreneurs who wish to use a market-based business model as a vehicle for transformative change in society. It does not propose to merely offer a small percentage of its profits to good causes, but by its own activities to address the basic problems of our communities and society as a whole.

E.V.E. is incorporated as a non-profit under Maine law and is awaiting 501(c)3 status from the IRS.