Seeds of Hope

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We’re Moving the Rainforest

I’m in Guarantinguta, working with a community of tree growers, and hopefully will find the way to upload the photos to the blog via iPad soon… Until then you can find some on our http://www.changents.com/rainforesteco photo album. We’re arranging for…

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En Route to the Rainforest

While there have been definite tones of Mission Impossible these last months, thanks to the incredible generosity of many people, we are able to really begin our planting project in Mata Atlantica this coming week. I’m writing this from the…

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What if you held a raffle and nobody bought a ticket?

I see the renewal of the slashed and burned rainforest as the perfect metaphor for life itself these days. We have pillaged our own legacy, but have before us the chance to renew it.

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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

Ian Scanlan © 2010 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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