Seeds of Hope

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Who Influences You to Make a Difference With Your Life?

There are a lot of people who’ve inspired me over the last couple of decades: Jean Houston, Lynne Twist, Marianne Williamson, and Amazon John Easterling among them…

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Who are the Rainforest Linchpins?

“Who are the Rainforest Linchpins?” Who faces the challenges of deforestation and takes action to do something effective about it? I’d love to hear your thoughts.

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What the Founders of FedEx and RainforestECO Have in Common

Who’d know that I had the same wonderful mentor that Fred Smith had during his napkin days of dreaming impossible dreams about flying small objects around the world from a central hub, if I didn’t write this post today?

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Doggone deforestation…

Another problem caused by deforestation that we don’t often think about: Thank you Freda, for bringing this to our attention!

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Four Years. Go.

We’re proud to be among the founding organizations of FOUR YEARS. GO. Will you help us start our Brazilian rainforest nursery this year? We could grow and help plant a lot of trees in four years. It’s time to start…

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Dear Prince Charles

Dear Prince Charles, You don’t know me yet, but my (British) Mother always knew we would work together on something. This is it. In Copenhagen you said, If deforestation can be stopped in its tracks, then we will be able…

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Rainforest ECObank Photo Gallery by Ian Scanlan

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Rainforest ECObank – Report from Mata Atlantica

Ian Scanlan just returned from a planning trip to the Rainforest Eco Lodge (honestly, they have a sign on the road with that name), visiting with local smallholders and planning for the pilot project nursery this Spring. He took some…

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Rainforest ECO – A Story of Homecoming

This story was recently posted on DC Cordova’s blog, for her new Entrepreneur Stimulus series…

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The Blessings of our first year

It has been a most amazing year, filled with blessings… Remembering this time last year – I was at Antoni’s Rainforest ECO Lodge first learning about Mata Atlantica, spending a day taking buses back to Rio with my daughter in…

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