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Planting 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 MoreIf they want to build a prison in your neighborhood – just plant a forest.
Suppose you lived in a beautiful neighborhood of Sao Paulo, and you learn that the City has decided it’s the ideal location to build a new prison. What do you do? Complain endlessly about how wrong this is? Or take…
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…
Read MoreYes! YES!
I LOVE it that in a year when the news on tv sounded like a doomsday movie script, that we occupied fear and anger and resentment against injustice, that we also increased our giving back to the earth by 300% — at least in one little corner of it…
Read MoreHow Steve Jobs Answered My Email
This is the how Steve Jobs answered my email. At 9:35am on September 2, 2011, I forwarded an article entitled: Steve Jobs, World’s Greatest Philanthropist from the Harvard Business Review, to the WeForest founder, Bill Liao, with the question, “Do…
Read MoreHow to Make Love Visible…
I just remembered who I am, and what I’m here for. I make connections between people, places and things that yearn for one another. As we come together, we renew what has been degraded – in our own minds and…
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