In Almere, land reclaimed from the Zuiderzee in the twentieth century is giving rise to an impressive example of how ecology and agriculture can be combined. On Utopia Island, the Weerwoud Foundation has created eight different agroforestry systems. The aim? To show farmers, students, and policymakers the wealth that agroforestry has to offer.
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Road to a billion trees: here’s how fast Ecosia’s search engine is growing
This summer, Ecosia planted its 100 millionth tree, less than a decade after launching its tree-funding search engine. And while the company has felt the impact of the pandemic as advertising revenues plummeted, these three graphs show just how fast Ecosia has been growing — and could continue to.
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World’s first wooden debit card lets its users plant trees as they shop
Together with Ecosia, TreeCard has launched a free wooden debit card that lets users contribute to reforestation projects when paying for everyday items. “Planting trees is a way for us all to take direct action.”
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Former Microsoft CEO to drive high-tech global land restoration efforts
Coming January, Amsterdam-based tree planting venture Land Life Company is welcoming the current CEO of Microsoft Netherlands, Ernst-Jan Stigter, as its new CEO. The news is accompanied by the announcement of a successful €6 million funding round that will ‘push the company to the next level’.
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Land Life Company is scaling up its next-level tree planting
Since its inception in 2013, Land Life Company has captured more than 180,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. After planting a million trees last year, this year they aim to triple this number in the race to restore the earth’s two billion hectares of degraded land.
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Meet the new social media platform for worldwide landscape projects
Empowering people to make better, more sustainable and more transparent forest projects. It’s a goal that Germany-based company OpenForests pursues through explorer.land, an online platform that is changing the ways in which investors, donors and landscape developers communicate. Their recently launched Story Mapping app is making it even easier for companies and individuals to see the positive impact of their donations.
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More and more universities are turning searches into trees
An increasing number of universities is switching to Ecosia as its default search engine. With more and more users, the German-based company is poised to reach a hundred million trees planted by early summer this year.
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France’s first Ecosystem Restoration Camp will start accepting volunteers in Spring
Ecosystem Restoration Camps has announced the opening of its newest camp in Ajat, France. Camp Virsoleil is the tenth camp developed as part of the foundation’s aim to engage and train people in the practice of restoring the ecological functionality of degraded landscapes.
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