Communications - The communication team serves to facilitate the distribution of information across sub-teams by being present at every meeting. It manages strategic planning, partnerships, and organizational representation.

Dome - The dome team manages the planning and construction of the habitat at the center of Ripple. This includes design of the interior features, such as the seed bank and adaptive community/living space. 

Education - Ripple is meant to centralize and distribute western and traditional ecological knowledge through educational signage, databases, and collaborative partnerships. The education team manages these aspects, as well as the adaptation of information on Ripple’s technical systems for visitors.

Energy - The energy team manages the creation of the reliable and robust renewable power systems at Ripple. These include designing different systems for different project phases, and maintaining a socially responsible energy infrastructure. This work includes interdisciplinary design support to maximize the efficiency of our energy usage. Energy team is also housing our work to ensure Ripple’s carbon neutrality from the start, including carbon and embodied energy cataloging for the installation and our team’s travel to Nevada.

Fundraising - Our fundraising team brings money in the door, and sees it safely back out. Working closely with the communications team, they contribute to branding and representation of the project, and build strategies for our long term organizational success.

Landscape Construction - This team manages work related to earth moving, fencing, and accessibility, and compiles information from the other sub-teams to maintain accurate basemaps of the installation. Other needs pertaining to outdoor constructed features such as benches and shade structures fall into this team.

Plants - The plants team manages the selection, placement, and care of plants in the gardens at Ripple. It works carefully to integrate the work of local native people, as well as new and ongoing restoration efforts to make Ripple both a demonstration garden and a functional propagation tool.

Regeneration - The regeneration team manages the restroom facilities and composting systems at Ripple. These are done with acute respect for the creation of cyclical material flows and practical sustainability on site.

Water - The water team provides infrastructure that makes irrigation-quality water available in storages to the plants and regeneration teams from a nearby reservoir. It also manages the separate need for drinking water supplies on site, with an attention towards adaptability and resilience.