Replanting a Rainforest

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"Imagine a house like a tree, imagine a city like a forest."

Cradle to Cradle, Michael Braungart and William McDonough

The world needs trees, lots of trees. They are not only beautiful to look at, they provide habitats for animals and help make up the critical biodiversity to maintain human life on earth. It's about survival of the human species, so we plant trees.

But that's not enough, humanity has been destroying these critical areas of biological diversity during the past hundred years at a rate unsurpassed in the history of mankind; that's four to five million years.

Planting trees alone is not enough, we need to re-define leadership.

If we don't, we'll never catch up by planting enough trees, there will always be somebody cutting down more down than we can plant. So we encourage a dialogue between individuals, businessmen and women, privately and professionally, and to sit among trees like the one pictured below; a Jequitibá tree that is over two thousand years old.

“Replanting a Rainforest ” is a project providing for the planting and care of indigenous trees in the Minas Gerais and São Paulo regions of Brazil. By working with land owners to reforest land with native tree saplings of the original “Mata Altântica” (Atlantic Rainforest) we both increase nature’s ability to absorb CO2 with the trees and reduce the production of methane from methane producing cows (*).

Watch the video below to learn about how the project began.

In close cooperation between Sponsors, Open World Foundation, knowledgeable partners and local stakeholders, “Re planting a Rainforest” is a unique and  groundbreaking project which will help reduce CO2 in the atmosphere, give nature a chance to heal and recuperate itself and create inspiring environments for leadership and learning.

The social and environmental impact of “Replanting a Rainforest” can  be tremendous since it can    s   erve as a  model and be replicated in further projects focusing on tree stewardship, farm management, fruits and other products which can be symbiotically harvested from planted forest (vanilla, coffee, ginger, herbs, spices etc.), local handicrafts, seminars and workshops which can be provided to local  community and international visitors.

For more information, please download pdf documents below:

Replanting a Rainforest - Project Introduction

(*)"Replanting a Rainforest" is used with quote marks because we are aware that man alone cannot Replant a Rainforest; rainforests have evolved over millions of years while man has seemingly unconsciously been destroying the biological diversity during the past few hundred years. We aim to create the conditions for nature to heal and recuperate itself, while participating through observing and learning from nature.