Seeds of Hope
RainforestECO – Regeneration & Youth Impact
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Q. When Trees are Planted in the Forest, Do They Make Music?
Q. When trees are planted in the forest, do they make music?
A. They do if iGiveTrees raised the money to plant them!
Initiative 4 per 1000 Declaration of Intention
As a tree-hugging artist, I was inspired to translate the 4per1000: Soils for Food Security and Climate’s Declaration of Intention into the font TREE created by Katie Holton. May these words take root and grow.
Read MoreHas big conservation gone astray?
The world’s biggest conservation groups have embraced a human-centric approach known as “new conservation.” But is it up to the task of saving life on Earth?
Read MoreYou drink Coffee. We plant Trees.
If you’ve followed this blog through the years, you know I’ve lost hope more than once along the way, due to the many challenges faced by my field partners. While searching for even a glimmer of hope to keep this…
Read More2015 International Day of Trees News Snips
The flying river is a movement of large quantities of water vapor transported in the atmosphere from the Amazon Basin to other parts of South America. The forest trees release water vapor into the atmosphere through transpiration and this moisture…
Read MoreI Just Want A Rainforest
Since 2010 the iGive Trees project has been crowdfunding the renewal of an endangered rainforest in Brazil. We’re thrilled to announce that 32 page, full color book is now available, documenting our story.
Read MoreUnited Nations Climate Summit films: WHAT’S POSSIBLE & A WORLD OF SOLUTIONS
At times when the negative news can be so very overwhelming, this is the type of news I need to share. The news that “You can choose today, to make a world of difference.”
Read MoreSynthetic RainForests Kill Wildlife
“In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.”
Read MoreA Silent Rainforest is a Dead Rainforest
“Genetic engineering (GE) of our food supply amounts to a massive science experiment being performed on mankind, without consent or full disclosure. Although the biotech industry continues to claim GE products are safe, the truth is that no one knows…
Read MoreExtinction of Fruit-eating Birds Impacts Forest Ecology
The extinction of large, fruit-eating birds in fragments of Brazil’s Atlantic rainforest has caused palm trees to produce smaller seeds over the past century, impacting forest ecology, found a study published in Science. The researchers looked at Euterpe edulis palm…
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