{"id":4,"date":"2017-10-25T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tessaalford.com\/index.php\/home\/"},"modified":"2018-08-31T21:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T21:22:42","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tessaalford.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe in people.\u00a0 I believe in honesty.\u00a0 I believe in improving whenever possible.\u00a0 I believe we create our own realities.\u00a0 And I believe that we already have everything we need to fix every problem we&#8217;re encountering as a society.\u00a0 So let&#8217;s do just that.<\/p>\n<p>With a background in systems engineering, my work continues from fine-tuning spacecrafts to aligning solutions on big and small scales for living securely within the means of physics.\u00a0\u00a0My current work centers around building a better understanding of our earth&#8217;s resources and regenerative resource cycles in order for every person and group to budget better.<\/p>\n<p>Increasing our understanding of how to best interact with our only available home is crucial to each and every one of us living lives we love.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<div id=\"give-form-90-wrap\" class=\"give-form-wrap give-display-button give-display-button-only\">\n\t\t<div id=\"give-form-content-90\" class=\"give-form-content-wrap give_pre_form-content\"><p>If you have the ability to support better budgeting of our resources as a planet, your contribution will enable keeping results from this effort independent, trustworthy, and dependable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\t\t\t<form id=\"give-form-90-1\" class=\"give-form give-form-90 give-form-type-multi\" action=\"https:\/\/tessaalford.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/?payment-mode=paypal&form-id=90\" data-id=\"90-1\" data-currency_symbol=\"&#36;\" data-currency_code=\"USD\" data-currency_position=\"before\" data-thousands_separator=\",\" data-decimal_separator=\".\" data-number_decimals=\"2\" 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for=\"give-comment\">\n\t\t\t\t\tComment\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"give-tooltip hint--top hint--medium hint--bounce\" aria-label=\"Would you like to add a comment to this donation?\" rel=\"tooltip\"><i class=\"give-icon give-icon-question\"><\/i><\/span>\t\t\t\t<\/label>\n\n\t\t\t\t<textarea\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"give-input\"\n\t\t\t\t\tname=\"give_comment\"\n\t\t\t\t\tplaceholder=\"Leave a comment\"\n\t\t\t\t\tid=\"give-comment\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t><\/textarea>\n\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/fieldset>\n\t\t<fieldset id=\"give_terms_agreement\">\n\t\t<legend>Terms<\/legend>\n\t\t<div id=\"give_terms\" class=\"give_terms-90\" style=\"display:none;\">\n\t\t\t<p>Acceptance of any contribution, gift or grant is at the discretion of Tessa Alford. Tessa Alford will not accept any gift unless it can be used or expended consistently with the purpose and mission of Tessa Alford.<\/p>\n<p>No irrevocable gift, whether outright or life-income in character, will be accepted if under any reasonable set of circumstances the gift would jeopardize the donor\u2019s financial security.<\/p>\n<p>Tessa Alford will refrain from providing advice about the tax or other treatment of gifts and will encourage donors to seek guidance from their own professional advisers to assist them in the process of making their donation.<\/p>\n<p>Tessa Alford will accept donations of cash or publicly traded securities. Gifts of in-kind services will be accepted at the discretion of Tessa Alford.<\/p>\n<p>Certain other gifts, real property, personal property, in-kind gifts, non-liquid securities, and contributions whose sources are not transparent or whose use is restricted in some manner, must be reviewed prior to acceptance due to the special obligations raised or liabilities they may pose for Tessa Alford.<\/p>\n<p>Tessa Alford will provide acknowledgments to donors meeting tax requirements for property received by the charity as a gift. However, except for gifts of cash and publicly traded securities, no value shall be ascribed to any receipt or other form of substantiation of a gift received by Tessa Alford.<\/p>\n<p>Tessa Alford will respect the intent of the donor relating to gifts for restricted purposes and those relating to the desire to remain anonymous. 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With a background in systems engineering, my work continues from fine-tuning spacecrafts to aligning solutions on big and small scales for living securely within the means of physics.\u00a0\u00a0My current work &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tessaalford.com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tessaalford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tessaalford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tessaalford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tessaalford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tessaalford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tessaalford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tessaalford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}