The Ecosia Podcast - How to bring forests back without planting trees

How to bring forests back without planting trees

01/03/19 • 12 min

Alternative Nobel Prize laureate Tony Rinaudo explains how to bring forests back through Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration -- an innovative reforestation technique that is changing landscapes and lives. Ecosia has been applying Tony Rinaudo's technique in Ghana, in combination with traditional tree-planting. Our aim is to restore the banks of the Daka river, a vital source of water for the region.

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Trees not profits

Our profits go towards trees, not shareholders – and we’ve just made that commitment legally binding. For most traditional entrepreneurs, this sounds like a terrible idea. But Ecosia isn’t a traditional business. Instead of maximizing shareholder value, we’re interested in maximizing the amount of trees we plant. To learn more about how we’re working with a third party to make sure Ecosia will always be not-for-profit and never pay dividends to anyone, we talk to Ecosia's founder and CEO, Christian Kroll.

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Food and the desert: sounds from our project in Andalusia, Spain

Spain produces 12% of the EU’s fruit and vegetables. It is home to over half of Europe’s animal and plant species. Yet 75% of the country’s soil is degraded. Large parts of Spain are on the brink of becoming a desert.

We had to do something. So we partnered with Alvelal, a farmer-led association. Together we’re planting trees and help farmers switch to agricultural practices that regenerate their soil instead of depleting it.

This episode of the Ecosia podcast explores this tree-planting project through interviews, a personal story about going home, and a polyphony of sounds and instruments recorded at our reforestation site by our friends at Sound Matters.