What does APEIRON mean?
The Apeiron is the ancient Greek philosophical concept of the infinite spatial existence of substance. Anaxaminder was the first of the Greeks to use the word Apeiron to refer to the universe as spatially unbounded. Anaximenes, Xenophanes, Melissus, and the later Atomists extended the meaning of the Apeiron concept to the infinite, the indeterminate, and the boundless.

Originally named “The Apeiron Foundation,” in October of 1994, the organization was created with the belief that infinite and boundless possibilities exist for the growth and development of all forms of life on Earth. If we are ever to fully explore these possibilities, we come to some basic agreement as to how we, as humans, live – not only with each other, but with all forms of life on Earth. The organization changed its name to the Apeiron Institute For Environmental Living in 2002 and to the Apeiron Institute for Sustainable Living in January of 2008.