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COP30: What Belém and the Sociobio Restaurant Taught Me About Climate Action
Do you remember the iGiveTrees team? If not, please visit the page to see who’s written this guest post: Leonardo Andrade. He’s a dear friend who helped to conduct bilingual team meetings and meet in person with planting partners in Brazil,…
Read MoreOutrage & Optimism at COP30 Amazonia
“[H]umanity was guided for most of its existence by the ideal of being. It is very recent that we have begun to be guided by the ideal of having. Mercantilism shifted the ideal of being to the ideal of having….
Read MoreDrawdown at COP30 Amazonia
This year’s major United Nations climate talks, COP30, fell short of many expectations. Despite being held in Belém, Brazil, known as the “gateway to the Amazon,” issues such as stopping deforestation and transforming global food systems received relatively little attention….
Read MorePlanting Hope in Young Hearts
Video highlights of Earthday 2017 talk for Manzanita School by Alana Lea, Founder of iGiveTrees.
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 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…
Read MoreReforestation in Rio
This week I welcomed an invitation to hike through Floresta da Tijuca, the largest urban forest in the world. Turns out it’s one of the most successful reforestation projects on the planet, right here, within the city of Rio de…
Read MoreFRED talk > TED talk – I’m Talking to YOU about Replanting a Degraded Rainforest
TED talks are my absolute favorite form of edutainment, so when I was invited to speak at a Los Angeles Fred Talk in December, I was one happy Brazilian! FRED is a TED with Friends. And good food. And sometimes…
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