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Drawdown 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 MoreInitiative 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 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 More1992-2012 Climate Change Timeline from Rio+20 Glob-All Poster Exhibit
When I toured the Glob-All Poster exhibit created to commemorate the Rio+20 Earth Summit, I really expected to find more heart. But it seems the designers hadn’t really allowed the information they were supposed to be touching us with, into…
Read MoreThe Unexpected was Expected at #RioPlus20
I came to Rio expecting the unexpected to be the best part of the journey. So far, so good. Since I’m not able to collect credentials for entry to the UN event that were kindly offered to me by WiserEarth…
Read MoreSevern Cullis Suzuki Calls Climate Change a Crime
Severn Cullis Suzuki was the most memorable voice at the original Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Now a youth advocate for intergenerational justice, she says climate change is a crime. “Lifting human consciousness to become champions for a world that…
Read MoreThe State of the World Forests report by the UN for the International Year of Forests 2011
The year 2011 has been designated ‘The International Year of Forests’ by the United Nations General Assembly. This builds on momentum already generated in other international arenas, such as those related to climate change and biodiversity, to bring even greater…
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