leaders and innovaters in the eco-community
I believe in community engagement, ingenuity, and sustainability. It’s the bottom-up movements that have led to great change in human history. I would like to share with you some very inspiring humans and wonderful organizations fighting on behalf of our planet. The earth is providing us with the necessary resources to return her to health. We have the power and technology —we just need to support those with the blueprints and the tools!
inspiring people
tim flannery
is a professor and climate change activist. He believes that massive farms of seaweed, a crop with enormous carbon sequestration capabilities, could potentially draw enough carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a short enough time frame to mitigate some of the worst effects of climate change.
susanne simard
is a professor of forest ecology and teaches at the University of British Columbia. She is a biologist and has tested theories about how trees communicate with other trees. She is a pioneer and helped identify the concept of Mother Trees in forests.
naomi klein
a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of capitalism. Klein is a leading voice in the climate fight.
inspiring organizations
GreenWave
GreenWave’s polyculture farming system grows a mix of seaweeds and shellfish that require zero inputs—making it the most sustainable form of food production on the planet—while sequestering carbon and rebuilding reef ecosystems. Regenerative ocean farming has been identified as a key solution to climate change. It has the power to sequester carbon on land and sea, reduce methane production in livestock, rebuild marine ecosystems, enrich soil, and address the global plastics problem.
The Mother Tree Project
The Mother Tree Project is an innovative research project investigating forest renewal practices that will protect biodiversity, carbon storage and forest regeneration as climate changes.
Amazon Watch
The mission is to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin.
The Leap
The Leap’s mission is to advance a radically hopeful vision for how we can address climate change by building a more just world, while building movement power and popular support to transform it into a lived reality.
hot Buzz: podcasts
Ready to start reaping the brain benefits of listening to these insightful podcasts? Check out my recommendations:
books
Here are some of my favorite titles:
The Weathermakers by Tim Flannery
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
The Secret Wisdom of Nature by Peter Wohlleben
The Overstory by Richard Powers
On Fire by Naomi Klein
Looking forward to the May release of Suzanne Simard’s, Finding the Mother Tree
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