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Welcome to Tree Update 38! In this episode, Mélissa brings you updates from two islands that account for 96% of Indonesia’s palm oil production – islands that have figured out how to mitigate this problem.
Stay tuned for adventure, progress, happy people and lots of trees! :)
And a big, big thank you to our partners at FKL and the GLSF. Find out more about them:
FKL instagram.com/leuserconservationforum
GLSF blog.ecosia.org/how-one-conversation-started-a-silent-revolution
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⌚️Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:36 Rocky start in Sumatra
01:12 The Damage of Palm Oil
01:47 Your trees fight palm oil monocultures
02:42 How your trees turn lives around
03:27 500.000 trees
03:38 Before/after
04:35 YOU guys are the stars ⭐️
04:57 Indigenous power in Borneo
05:59 2,000,000 trees
06:24 A message from Piet Abik
07:04 Can we ask for a favor?
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Producer Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Director on the ground Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
Script Lubna Ostadi (IG: @lubna.ostadi)
Script editing Fátima González-Torres
Cinematographer Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
Editing & post-production Christian Sawalski
Motion graphics & animation Christian Sawalski and Forat El Alfy (IG: @foratau)
🙋🏽♀️ What is Ecosia Presents? Every tree-planting project we support has stories from inspiring people doing the hard work of restoring the planet. Every region we plant trees in has talented storytellers that we want to give a platform to. These are their stories. Told by them, powered by the Ecosia community.
🌳 Ecosia is the green search engine. Get on Ecosia and be climate active every day: ecosia.org
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Production & direction Alejandro Moreno de Carlos (IG: @alejandro.photo), Odeke Daniel (YT: @odeketown)
Production & original concept (Ecosia Presents) Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Script Alejandro Moreno de Carlos, Odeke Daniel
Script editing Fátima González-Torres
Cinematography Odeke Daniel
Editing & post-production Alejandro Moreno de Carlos, Odeke Daniel
Big thanks to @trees4humanity894 for their support on this one!
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⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️
00:00 Intro
00:38 Meet Odeke Daniel
00:54 Why Plastic
01:26 Our project, alternatives to plastic
03:12 Do banana pods work?
05:05 Limits of banana pods
05:38 Alternatives to banana
07:04 What do you think?
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The festival season is about to start in Europe and we wanted to have a closer look at the CO2 footprint of music festivals.
Music is important and if we want to have festivals far into the future, this industry, too, will have to adapt. Tempelhof Sounds is a festival in Berlin. They invited us to have a closer look: what would it take to make festivals more sustainable and does green take all the fun out of it?
#Festivals2023 #GreenFestivals
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Reports quoted:
Greener Festivals study: http://www.agreenerfestival.com/summary.html
theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/2010/may/05/festivals-glastonbury-leeds-carbon-emissions
massiveattack.co.uk
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Producer Génica Schäfgen
Director Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic) and Joshua Gottlieb (IG: @joshigot)
Creative director Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Script Fátima González-Torres and Joshua Gottlieb
Cinematographer Sina Samavati
Editing & post-production Sina Samavati
Special thanks to Tempelhof Sounds crew and Hinds band
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Welcome to Tree-Update 37!
How does Ecosia know if the trees we plant actually survive? In Tree Update 30 we showed you how we gather satellite images and use other technology to see whether the trees you help us plant are still growing. This time, Mélissa shows you how we manually count your trees when we’re on the ground checking on them.
Questions? Post them below in the comments section!
00:00 Intro
00:16 The basics
00:37 Preparing the tools (PCQ method)
01:02 Counting and measuring
02:13 Apps & satellites
02:43 Updates on our latest project visits
02:53 Malawi (2 projects)
04:01 Ethiopia (2 projects)
04:48 Next update preview & ending
This is a YouTube series, you can find all past Tree Update episodes in this playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVIr0a2TLf9vGaCN2pJBp4cNHFJxHvf3T
#TreeUpdate37 #Transparency #Treeplanting
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Director Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Producer Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Script Mélissa de Hertogh and Fátima González-Torres
Cinematographer Sina Samavati (@sinasamavati)
Editing & post-production Sina Samavati
Motion graphics & animation Forat El Alfy (IG: @foratau)
Special thanks to Willmars Gärten in Berlin for letting us shoot on their sites
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A little present from Marcela in Brazil for the end of the year. Watch her fully story here: youtube.com/watch?v=M0TotM68INU
#Brazil #Walkthrough
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Director and producer: Fátima (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Cinematographer: Marcela
Editing & post-production: Pako
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Marcela's story is the story of the importance of trees.
Marcela is from Pontal do Paranapanema, in western Brazil. Here, Ecosia's tree-planting partner in the area, IPÊ, employs local communities to grow the tree saplings they’ll then pay other community members to plant in a massive effort to restore the Atlantic Forest.
Also known as the little sister of the Amazon Forest, the Atlantic Forest is immensely important for biodiversity and human livelihood. Watch Marcela’s story, or how protecting the planet helps people, biodiversity and the economy.
Your searches on Ecosia have helped us plant a little under two million trees with Marcela and her community, employing a total of 214 people and counting — obrigado!
A big thank you to IPE, our tree-planting partners on the ground doing this fabulous work. Make sure to follow them on YouTube (@IpeOrgBrConservacao) or on Instagram (@institutoipe).
#Brazil #ClimateCareers #Reforestation
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Director & Producer Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Creative director Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
Script Fátima González-Torres & Pako Quijada
Cinematographer Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
Editing & post-production Pako Quijada
Motion graphics & animation Pako Quijada
Additional support by Marcela
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Hey friends! During this trip to Madagascar we found fewer trees than expected. Here's our perspective on what happened, what we learned, and what we’re doing now. Follow this link to our blog for all the details: blog.ecosia.org/madagascar-update
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Welcome to Tree-Update 36! It’s been a while. As you might know, Ecosia had a full rebrand, and then a big summer break kept it all quiet around here. But let’s get right into it, this time with a big update from one of our biggest tree-planting locations in Madagascar:
00:00 Intro
00:34 In the south
01:14 In the north
02:48 Along the coast
You can find all past Tree Updates in this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVIr0a2TLf9vGaCN2pJBp4cNHFJxHvf3T
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Director: Joshua Gottlieb (IG: @joshigot)
Cinematographer: Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
Editing & post-production: Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Additional support by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
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Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more. You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app. Available on the Apple Store and Google Play.
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
California’s wildfires are getting bigger, hotter, more frequent, and more difficult to control. What happened? Why are wildfires increasing in size and intensity so much that we had to coin new terms like “megafire” and “gigafire”? And what needs to change to return to a healthy fire cycle?
Climate change plays a major role: the extreme heat and drought it causes makes fires much more likely. But that’s not all there is to it. In this video, we’re looking at the history of California’s forests, why fire suppression actually led to worse fires, and the advantages of controlled burns and thinning forests.
#Ecosia #California #Wildfires
01:07 California’s forest ecology
02:18 How the natural cycle was broken
04:57 The new mega- and giga-fires
06:12 What we can do
09:05 Conclusion
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Director: Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
Producer: Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Creative directors: Shane Thomas McMillan and Fátima González-Torres
Script: Shane Thomas McMillan
Script editing: Joshua Gottlieb (IG: @joshigot) and Fátima González-Torres
Cinematographer: Shane Thomas McMillan
Editing & post-production: Shane Thomas McMillan
Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
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Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Welcome to Climate Brief, an Ecosia series on how to navigate the era of climate change.
In this episode, we talk about why wildfires are important for forests but also why they can be bad and how they are affecting climate change. We’ll learn about how wildfires are started, and how they affect people and wildlife alike.
Climate change is slowly turning the entire year into wildfire season and they are increasingly difficult to stop. But just as we know how to start them, we also know how to stop them.
00:11 Intro
00:56 Not all wildfires are bad
01:35 Most wildfires are started by people
02:22 How wildfires can be prevented
#Wildfires #Climatechange #Howto
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Main sources:
Fires, forests and the future: a crisis raging out of control? (WWF, BCG, November 2019)
Mahesh Poudyal, Julia P.G. Jones, O. Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Neal Hockley, James M. Gibbons, Rina Mandimbiniaina, Alexandra Rasoamanana, Nilsen S. Andrianantenaina, Bruno S. Ramamonjisoa. “Who bears the cost of forest conservation?” PeerJ, 2018; 6: e5106 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5106
theconversation.com/amazon-fires-indigenous-people-show-fire-can-be-used-sustainably-122493
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rstb.2015.0174
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Director and producer Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Creative director Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
Script Tarn Rodgers Johns (IG: @tarnrj)
Script editing Fátima González-Torres and Joshua Gottlieb (IG: @joshigot)
Research lead Tarn Rodgers Johns
Cinematographer Pako Quijada, Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian), Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Editing & post-production Pako Quijada
Motion graphics & animation Forat El Alfy (IG: @foratau)
Production assistant Yongmin Hwang (IG: @ymwashere)
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Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
ecosia.org
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Our planet needs action, not gestures. Speeches, pledges, and half-measures won’t cut it. We recently planted our 150 millionth tree, but our work is just beginning — today, we’re going all in.
Same commitment, new look. This is our manifesto for a better future.
If you’ve been with Ecosia for a while, share this video, let’s go all in together :)
If you’re new here, welcome! Ecosia is the search engine that plants trees. But we do so much more than that. We make sure to plant the right tree in the right place. We also support regenerative farming projects around the world. Ecosia is climate negative, not just climate neutral, and we are also a private search engine.
We know that a different future is possible. Let’s change it together, one search at a time!
#Manifesto #SearchEngine #EthicalTech
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Director & Producer Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatiluzgonzalevic)
Creative director Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
Script Fátima González-Torres
Script editing Joshua Gottlieb (IG: @joshigot)
Cinematographer Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian), Sina Samavati
Editing & post-production Pako Quijada
Motion graphics & animation Pako Quijada and Forat Elalfy (@foratau)
Voice Richard Canal Calvo (www.richardcanalvo.com)
Additional support Ceri Flook, Elise Jost, Sina Samavati
Music “Ready for Anything — Instrumental”, by Blackway
musicbed.com/songs/ready-for-anything-instrumental/55404
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Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Welcome to Tree-Update 35! This time from Brazil, where we recently visited Ecosia’s tree-planting partners in the regions of Minas Gerais, Paraiba, Espírito Santo, and São Paulo.
This time we were without Pieter, Mélissa, or any other member of Ecosia’s tree-planting team, so we passed on the camera to Felipe, Joaquim, and Laury Jr — some of the actual tree planters on the ground!
0:00 Intro
0:22 Agroforestry systems
1:15 Indigenous land
2:20 Monkeys
3:04 Araza tree
3:25 Forest corridors
4:11 Outro
4:22 Ecosia forest
A big, fat obrigada to Instituto Espinhaço, CEPAN, and IPE for their work and for their time when we were on the ground.
#TreeUpdate #Brazil #Ecosia
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Director & Producer Fátima González-Torres(IG: @fatiluzgonzalevic)
Creative director Christian Sawalski and Fátima González-Torres
Script Fátima González-Torres
Production assistant Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
Cinematographer Shane Thomas McMillan
Editing & post-production Christian Sawalski
Additional support Instituto Espinhaço, CEPAN, IPE
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Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
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Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: https://plant.ecosia.orgs://www.ecosia.org/
Neema has seen first hand how deforestation has affected the environment in her village. Only 30 years ago, when she was a child, her village was surrounded by trees. Today, like much of Tanzania, it’s almost completely deforested. Ever since, and only in one generation, temperatures have risen, soils have dried out, and rainfall has grown scarce.
Your searches on Ecosia allow us to support our tree-planting partners at the LEAD Foundation in Tanzania. Thanks to your trees, Neema is starting to see a difference — and to regain hope for a better future for her and her family.
#Deforestation #ClimateCrisis #Tanzania #ShortVideo
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Director & Producer: Joshua Gottlieb (IG: @joshigot)
Creative director: Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Script: Joshua Gottlieb
Cinematographer: Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
Editing & post-production: Sina Samavati
Translator & production assistant: Lucy Kimitta (@lucykimitta)
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Make Ecosia your default search engine to plant trees while you search the web: ecosia.co/install
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Stay updated on how Ecosia is helping reforest the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), on Instagram (@ecosia) and on Facebook (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our TREE STORE and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Welcome to Climate Brief, an Ecosia series on how to navigate the era of climate change.
Are you anxious about the climate crisis? You’re not alone. 60% of 16-25 year olds said that they experience climate anxiety. Despite eco-anxiety being common, many people still question how to deal with feelings of despair, doom and grief around climate change.
In this video, we break down three ways to turn climate anxiety into climate action. Powering up your imagination, advocating within your community and taking breaks can lead the way to a regenerative future – a future that cares about people and the planet.
0:00 Intro
00:50 Power your imagination
02:01 Levels of action
04:03 Know when to take a break
04:44 Sounds of an (Ecosia) forest!
#ClimateAnxiety #ClimateAction #Ecosia
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More links on how to cope with climate anxiety:
On Ecosia’s Instagram:
instagram.com/p/CGKMQcbI4Xd
On Ecosia’s Blog:
blog.ecosia.org/how-to-cope-with-climate-anxiety
A meditation challenge with Ecosia and Insight Timer:
blog.ecosia.org/ecosia-insight-timer-meditate-climate-anxiety
PROJECTS & BOOKS MENTIONED:
drawdown.org
drawdown.ecochallenge.org
regeneration.org
https://www.allwecansave.earth/
Four levels of climate action by Will Grant from Pachamama Alliance:
vimeo.com/287129175
MAIN SOURCES:
Our advice came mostly from a conversation with psychologist Andrew Bryant (MPH, MSW) from Climate and Mind:
climateandmind.org
We also consulted this study on the “psychological responses to climate change”:
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0887618520300773
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Produced and directed by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Written by Fátima González-Torres
Script editing Elise Jost
Production assistance Ceri Flook
Editing & post-production by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Motion graphics & animation by Forat Elalfy (IG: @foratau)
Cinematography by Gabi Molera (IG: @black_bamboo_films)
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Make Ecosia your default search engine to plant trees while you search the web: ecosia.co/install
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and many more.
You can also download Ecosia on your mobile:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Stay updated on how Ecosia is helping reforest the planet by visiting our blog: blog.ecosia.org, on Instagram (@ecosia), on Facebook (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Welcome to Tree-Update 34! Rampant deforestation is threatening Uganda’s natural forests. Wildlife, biodiversity, and complex forest ecosystems are under immense pressure from the logging industry. What is the root cause of Uganda’s deforestation problem? In this video, come along to our reforestation and restoration projects in Uganda where Ecosia is planting and protecting trees.
Most people in Uganda do not have access to the national power grid and biomass accounts for 90% of energy consumption. Charcoal makes up the large majority of this, which is sourced from wood. During our first week, we visited a new partner, Kijani, who is combining an innovative business model with native trees to disrupt the charcoal industry.
Deforestation has destroyed the wildlife habitats of chimpanzees, leaving less than 5000 chimpanzees in Uganda. With the Jane Goodall Institute, Ecosia is planting forest corridors to help boost the population of one of our closest relatives.
Farmers and agricultural land are also key to transforming the state of Uganda's forests. We visited a new project with our partner GLS who is engaging with five farmer cooperatives across the country.
Do you know what the biggest source of single-use plastic is in tree planting? We end our journey through Uganda at our long-time partner Trees 4 Humanity, who are employing local women to reduce plastic in nurseries.
00:00 Intro
00:25 Kijani
01:00 The Jane Goodall Institute
01:24 GLS
01:59 Trees 4 Humanity
03:33 Outro
03:42 Bonus content
This is a YouTube series, you can find all past Tree Update episodes in this playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVIr0a2TLf9vGaCN2pJBp4cNHFJxHvf3T
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Director & Producer Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Creative director Christian Sawalski
Script Ceri Flook
Research lead Antonia Burchard-Levine and Ceri Flook
Cinematographer Luke Dray @lukedrayphoto) and Forat El Alfy (IG: @foratau)
Editing & post-production Christian Sawalski
Motion graphics & animation Christian Sawalski
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Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
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Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Climate change has arrived in Iyenge, Tanzania, in a very real way. The dry seasons have grown longer and hotter. The rains are unpredictable. Simple things, such as making sure there’s enough water for everyone, have become a matter of concern.
We know that trees can help Iyenge’s community adapt. Trees contribute to climate change adaptation by providing shade for crops, preventing erosion, and bolstering the water cycle. The problem: we can’t plant trees in Iyenge.
The climate in this part of Tanzania has become too harsh for tree saplings to survive. Our Tanzanian tree-planting partner, the LEAD Foundation, knew it had to find another way to bring back trees.
Together with local communities, it did. Kisiki Hai, also known as FMNR or natural forest regeneration, is a method that restores forests without planting trees. It’s simple, cheap, and scalable. All you have to do is find a shrub and prune all of its branches except one or two. This removes competition and makes the plant grow, quite quickly, into a tree. The survival rate of those trees is extremely high, because they already have roots and are well adapted to the hot climate.
In this video, the community talks about how their climate has changed, and how they’re using Kisiki Hai to adapt.
#ClimateAdaptation #NaturalRegeneration
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Director and producer Joshua Gottlieb (IG: @joshigot)
Creative director Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
Script Joshua Gottlieb
Editing & post-production Pako Quijada
Motion graphics & animation Pako Quijada
Cinematography by Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
Additional support Elise Jost
Music Silent Bloom (SLPSTRM) and Clarity (Lane-King)
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Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
ecosia.org
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Is the solution to climate change in soil? Industrial farming and intensive animal grazing have led to soil degradation, erosion, and desertification. What if, instead, small-scale agriculture could feed the world whilst also allowing biodiversity to thrive?
In this second episode of our video series on regenerative agriculture, we share how soil management practices like crop rotation, Allan Savory’s rotational animal grazing, and agroforestry all influence soil fertility and food production -- and whether these regenerative farming methods can be scaled and reverse climate change.
#RegenerativeAgriculture #FoodSecurity #Documentary
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Produced and directed by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Written by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic) & Ceri Flook
Editing & post-production by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Motion graphics & animation by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Cinematography by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati) & Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
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Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
ecosia.org
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
The Australian bushfires of 2020, dubbed The Black Summer, had a devastating impact on Byron Bay’s rainforest. During the wildfires, we directed 100% of Ecosia’s profits on January 24th to reforest this area. Now, 78,000 Ecosia trees have been planted, restoring parts of the ecosystem to clean the air, attract rain, boost biodiversity and combat climate change.
In this video, produced by our Australian tree-planting partner ReForest Now, we share how this project continues to grow from the support of the Ecosia community - a case study of how to respond to a planet in crisis.
Learn more about how Ecosia helps Australian bushfires:
blog.ecosia.org/trees-for-australia
blog.ecosia.org/after-the-news-australia-and-how-to-help
#AustraliaBushfires #BlackSummer #Reforestation
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Produced by Paul Daley (A Lush Forest Media) and ReForest Now
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Make Ecosia your default search engine to plant trees while you search the web: ecosia.co/install
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and many more.
You can also download Ecosia on your mobile:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Stay updated on how Ecosia is helping reforest the planet by visiting our blog: blog.ecosia.org, on Instagram (@ecosia), on Facebook (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift:
https://plant.ecosia.org”
Welcome to Tree Update 33! For the first time in over a year, we were able to visit your tree-planting projects in person.
In this episode, Mélissa comes to you from Tanzania, taking you from arid landscapes, where our partners are already experiencing the challenges of climate change, to the misty highlands where your searches are helping protect wildlife.
Planting trees in the right way here looks different at each site and Mélissa shows you what it takes to keep your trees growing in some of the world’s harshest conditions.
This is a YouTube series, you can find all past Tree Update episodes in this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVIr0a2TLf9vGaCN2pJBp4cNHFJxHvf3T
#FMNR #Treeplanting #Tanzania
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Produced and written by Joshua Gottlieb (IG: @joshigot)
Editing & post-production by Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
Cinematography by Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
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Director & Producer Joshua Gottlieb (IG: @joshigot)
Creative director Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
Script Joshua Gottlieb
Cinematographer Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
Editing & post-production Pako Quijada
Motion graphics & animation Pako Quijada
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Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
ecosia.org
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Welcome to Climate Brief, an Ecosia series on how to navigate the era of climate change.
In this video, we share three social business ideas that makes Ecosia different from tradtional business models. Business as usual is not going to solve the world’s problems. Indeed, much of the way business functions is the very reason for a lot of environmental and social harm today. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Here's how Ecosia is doing business differently — and how other companies and entrepreneurs can do better too.
0:00 Intro
0:36 Steward Ownership
1:54 Carbon neutral is not enough
3:17 Paying taxes
3:56 Outro
#IsEcosiaLegit #SocialBusiness #CarbonNegative
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Produced and directed by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Written by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Editing & post-production by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Motion graphics & animation by Forat Elalfy (IG: @foratau)
Cinematography by Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
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Main Sources:
nytimes.com/2020/01/23/business/corporate-climate-davos.html
nytimes.com/2021/02/22/business/energy-environment/corporations-climate-change.html
ecosia.zendesk.com/hc/de/articles/205118821-Was-bedeutet-es-ein-Social-Business-zu-sein-
purpose-economy.org/en/companies/ecosia
https://www.neue-rechtsform.de/
fairtaxmark.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Silicon-Six-Report-5-12-19.pdf
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Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
ecosia.org
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Can regenerative agriculture save our food system? Industrial farming and the green revolution have led to climate change and depleted soil health, all while locking small-scale farmers into an unfair system that has taken land away from BIPOC communities.
Small-scale farming and regenerative agricultural practices that employ traditional, indigenous knowledge, not only feed the world, but can restore food sovereignty and ensure food security, all while mitigating and possibly reverting the effects of climate change.
In this first episode of a video series on regenerative agriculture, we first dive into the main question underlying our current food system: climate justice.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:17 The Problem with Industrial Agriculture
02:19 What is Regenerative Farming
03:21 Land Ownership in Agriculture
06:15 Small-Scale Farming, Food Sovereignty and Climate Justice
08:58 Outro
11:43 Preview of Episode 2
#RegenerativeAgriculture #Documentary #ClimateJustice
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Produced, written and directed by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Research assistance from Ceri Flook and Sarina Bauer
Script editing by Joshua Gottlieb (IG: @joshigot) and Elise Jost (TW: @eliseisonline)
Editing & post-production by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Motion graphics & animation by Forat Elalfy (IG: @foratau)
Cinematography by Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian), Sylvain Leurent (IG: @world.foodorama) and Sina Samavati
Additional footage by Reuters, Storyblocks, Prelinger Archives
Music by Olivier Olsen, Ohad Ben Ari, Kadir Demir
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Main sources:
nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02331-x
mdpi.com/2073-445X/9/4/101/htm
landcoalition.org/en/uneven-ground/executive-summary
https://www.giz.de/fachexpertise/html/60130.html
landmatrix.org
https://akzente.giz.de/de/artikel/repariert-das-system
thecounter.org/farm-workers-lack-overtime-pay-systemic-racism
nytimes.com/2019/08/08/climate/climate-change-food-supply.html
qz.com/1419079/the-global-food-system-is-broken-and-needs-radical-reform
thecounter.org/regenerative-agriculture-racial-equity-climate-change-carbon-farming-environmental-issues
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Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
ecosia.org
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Welcome to Tree Update 32!
In this episode, we share three types of projects that were chosen to help increase the impact of your searches. A key component to responsible tree planting is making sure a project engages the local community and that they have a vested interest in not only planting the trees - but keeping them in the ground and growing.
We talk about three projects that are great and novel examples of activating locals whilst also shedding light on the different ways we finance projects to make sure that the money generated from your searches has as big of an impact as possible.
00:44 Madagascar
01:59 Thailand
02:22 Uganda
This is a YouTube series, you can find all past Tree Update episodes in this playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVIr0a2TLf9vGaCN2pJBp4cNHFJxHvf3T
#TreeUpdate #Reforestation #TreePlanting
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Director Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Producer Ceri Flook
Creative director Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
Script Ceri Flook
Script editing Antonia Burchard-Levine, Fátima González-Torres
Cinematographer (IG: @)
Editing & post-production Pako Quijada
Motion graphics & animation Pako Quijada
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Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
ecosia.org
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Welcome to Climate Brief, an Ecosia series on how to navigate the era of climate change.
Is democracy failing at solving climate change? In this video, we dive into the basics of European political systems and how citizens can protect and strengthen democracy for more impactful action on climate change. Here are three problems of democracy in its current form -- and the solutions we need for better climate action and justice.
0:00 Intro
1:01 How parliamentary governments work
1:32 Pitfalls of strategic voting
2:37 Solution: make votes count
3:08 Pitfalls of policymaking
3:48 Solution: citizen councils and assemblies
4:37 The separation of powers
5:57 Outro
#UpdateDemocracy #ClimateAction #ClimateChange
The ideas in this video are heavily based on a book by Wolfgang Oels. He is the COO at Ecosia. You can read more about his book here:
https://www.oekom.de/buch/democracy-for-future-9783962383336
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MAIN SOURCES:
https://www.oekom.de/buch/democracy-for-future-9783962383336
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#SPM
climateactiontracker.org/countries
carnegieendowment.org/2019/01/16/is-democracy-problem-pub-78137
grist.org/climate/climate-lawsuit-science-attribution-ipcc
youtube.com/watch?v=CpM3fYiPFFE
https://www.buergerrat.de/en/about-citizens-assemblies/what-are-citizens-assemblies/
IF YOU WANT TO DIVE DEEPER:
Is Democracy the problem?
youtube.com/watch?v=PJy8vTu66tE
youtube.com/watch?v=kRZVRprCl4U
youtube.com/watch?v=qdK5uK7B0Lo
Democratic systems, the basics
youtube.com/watch?v=rm8eNmqUkOY
youtube.com/watch?v=wLL1S78ywbs
fairvote.org/how_proportional_representation_elections_work
annenbergclassroom.org/glossary_term/parliamentary-system
Citizen councils, citizen assemblies
dw.com/en/frances-citizen-climate-assembly-a-failed-experiment/a-56528234
europeanclimate.org/a-tale-of-two-citizens-assemblies
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Produced by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Editing & post-production by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Motion graphics & animation by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Writing by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Cinematography by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
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Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
ecosia.org
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Welcome to Climate Brief, an Ecosia series on how to navigate the era of climate change.
Do protests even work? The recent uprisings of climate justice protests and demonstrations across the world have many asking this question. In this episode, we take a look at three times when activists and everyday citizens protested for the climate — and then won! The key to each of their success was this: getting as many people as possible to stand up for the climate, will you join?
0:00 Intro
0:25 Atlantic Coast Pipeline
1:40 Shell case in the Netherlands
3:04 Fridays for Future in Germany
4:11 Outro
#ClimateStrikes #Protests #Ecosia
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MAIN SOURCES
Atlantic Coast Pipeline:
science.sciencemag.org/content/357/6348/260.1
http://www.ncai.org/resources/resolutions/support-for-the-haliwa-saponi-indian-tribe-to-protect-its-lands-waters-sacred-places-and-ancestors
archive.thinkprogress.org/native-americans-protest-natural-gas-pipeline-in-north-carolina-c4726edff47a
nbcnews.com/news/us-news/atlantic-coast-pipeline-canceled-after-years-delays-accusations-environmental-injustice-n1232987
abc11.com/pipeline-protests-north-dakota-access-atlantic-coast/1615630
Case against Shell:
dw.com/en/shell-ordered-to-reduce-co2-emissions-in-watershedruling/a-57669931
edition.cnn.com/2020/02/19/world/methane-emissions-humans-fossil-fuels-underestimated-climate-change/index.html
https://milieudefensie.nl/klimaatzaakshell/veelgestelde-vragen
Fridays for Future:
theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/29/historic-german-ruling-says-climate-goals-not-tough-enough
https://www.deutschland.de/en/topic/politics/fridays-for-future-why-the-movement-is-successful
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Produced by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Editing & post-production by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Motion graphics & animation by Forat Elalfy (IG: @foratau)
Writing by Fátima González-Torres and Charline Goethals
Research support Charline Goethals
Cinematography by Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
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Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
ecosia.org
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Welcome to Tree-Update 31! It’s the rainy season in many of the countries our partners work in, which means it’s tree-planting time. From Indonesia, India and Cameroon to the Ivory Coast, Ghana and Guatemala, your seedlings have been taken out of the nurseries and into the fields, ready to be planted.
But what exactly is the rainy season and why don’t our partners plant trees all year round? In this episode, we explain the difference between the rainy and dry seasons and how all the work necessary for good tree planting differs across them. We also announce a new country where we just started planting in.
00:00 Intro
00:06 Dry season vs Rainy Season
00:52 Right tree, right place
01:20 India update
01:40 Cameroon update
02:12 Ivory Coast update
02:27 Ghana update
02:40 Guatemala update
02:58 New project! Update!
This is a YouTube series, you can find all past Tree Update episodes in this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...
If you are interested in more details about how, where and why Ecosia plants trees, maybe these articles in the Ecosia blog will help:
https://blog.ecosia.org/everyone-gett...
https://blog.ecosia.org/how-do-ecosia...
https://blog.ecosia.org/where-why-how...
#TreeUpdate #TreePlanting #RainySeason
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Director & Producer Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Creative director Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
Script Fátima González-Torres
Research leads Ceri Flook and Antonia Burchard-Levine
Cinematographer Fátima González-Torres
Editing & post-production Pako Quijada
Motion graphics & animation Pako Quijada
Additional support Mélissa de Herthog
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Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
ecosia.org
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Why do we need trees? Welcome to Climate Brief, an Ecosia series on how to navigate the era of climate change. In this episode, we share what exactly makes trees so powerful. Watch to learn about trees' secrets and why they are so important for people and the planet.
0:00 Intro
0:18 The water cycle
0:43 Climate regulation
1:40 Health and livelihoods
2:36 Outro
#WhyTrees #Ecosia #ClimateBrief
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Produced by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Editing & post-production by Pako Quijada (@pakoquijada)
Motion graphics & animation by Forat Elalfy (IG: @foratau)
Cinematography by Pako Quijada
Cinematography by Fátima González-Torres
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Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
ecosia.org
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Most of us are familiar with the Amazon Forest’s role in maintaining the world’s rain patterns, storing CO2, and providing a habitat for wildlife.But the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra, Indonesia, tends to be known in conservationist circles only, despite being an utterly unique place.
The Leuser Ecosystem is one of the largest stretches of tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia and the last one on earth where the Sumatran elephant, rhino, tiger, sun bear and orangutan live together in the wild.
Wildlife in this part of Indonesia is endangered by illegal poaching activities, logging and unsustainable agricultural practices. Your searches on Ecosia are helping us plant trees here. But they do so much more than that. Through our partners we are also supporting the existence of wildlife patrols tasked with protecting animals.
Watch the video to learn more about how wildlife patrols protect not only animals, but also plant biodiversity during their trips into the forest.
#Wildlife #Animals #Ecosia
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Produced by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Editing & post-production by Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
Motion graphics & animation by Pako Quijada
Writing by Fátima González-Torres
Cinematography by Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
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Make Ecosia your default search engine to plant trees while you search the web: ecosia.co/install
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and many more.
You can also download Ecosia on your mobile:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Stay updated on how Ecosia is helping reforest the planet by visiting our blog: blog.ecosia.org, on Instagram (@ecosia), on Facebook (@Ecosia).
We also have an online shop! The sales from each t-shirt funds the planting of 20 trees at one of our reforestation sites: ecosia.teemill.com
ecosia.org
Will this be the year the world starts taking climate change seriously? Welcome to Climate Brief, an Ecosia series on how to navigate the era of climate change. In this episode, we dive into the news stories that will tell if we are shifting course on the climate crisis.
What other stories are you looking out for? Let us know in the comments!
0:00 Intro
0:34 COP26
2:10 National COVID recovery funds
2:38 Indigenous land defenders
4:50 Outro
A big thank you to Chris Madden from Global Witness for the interview. Go check the important work they do.
#ClimateNews #COVIDRecovery #COP26 #EnvironmentalDefenders
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Relevant sources and information:
On COP26 and national COVID recovery funds:
carbonbrief.org/coronavirus-tracking-how-the-worlds-green-recovery-plans-aim-to-cut-emissions
carbonbrief.org/analysis-which-countries-met-the-uns-2020-deadline-to-raise-climate-ambition
theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/20/carbon-emissions-to-soar-in-2021-by-second-highest-rate-in-history
theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/11/negotiating-with-your-worst-enemy-biden-in-risky-talks-to-pay-brazil-to-save-amazon
On environmental defenders:
act.globalwitness.org/page/73747/action/1
globalwitness.org/en/blog/global-voices-join-together-call-corporate-accountability
news.mongabay.com/2020/12/notable-deaths-in-conservation-in-2020
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/commissioners/2019-2024/reynders_en
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20210304IPR99216/meps-companies-must-no-longer-cause-harm-to-people-and-planet-with-impunity
grist.org/regulation/its-dangerous-to-be-an-environmental-activist-in-latin-america-a-new-treaty-is-trying-to-change-that
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Since the coronavirus pandemic broke out, it has taken over the news, but global warming kept happening anyway. In this episode we looked into the biggest climate change news of 2021. Of course, there are many more things happening, but in 2021 there are some big things on the horizon in terms of climate change action that you need to pay attention to.
Is 2021 going to be the year the world finally gets serious about climate change? Maybe. Some other political events you need to be aware of this year are the Biden Climate plan or the Chinese energy policy.
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Produced by Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Editing & post-production by Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati)
Motion graphics & animation by Forat El Alfy (@foratau)
Writing by Fátima González-Torres
Cinematography by Sina Samavati, Pako Quijada, Agencies
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Make Ecosia your default search engine to plant trees while you search the web: ecosia.co/install
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and many more.
You can also download Ecosia on your mobile:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Stay updated on how Ecosia is helping reforest the planet by visiting our blog: blog.ecosia.org, on Instagram (@ecosia), on Facebook (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Welcome to Tree-Update 30! Trees take time to grow. So before and after pictures are not always easy to make, because often the changes are not yet that obvious to the eye.
In this episode we tell you more about how at Ecosia, together with our tree-planting partners, we aim to bring more transparency into the tree-planting business by combining other methods to monitor the changes in the landscapes, even when the trees we plant are not yet fully grown.
From video calls with our partners, to monitoring apps or satellite images — watch this episode to learn more about how we know that the trees financed through Ecosia are actually making a difference.
A big, big, BIG thank you to Wells for Zoë for the maps and 3D animations in this video. Check out their work:
wellsforzoe.org
maps.wellsforzoe.org
This is a YouTube series, you can find all past Tree Update episodes in this playlist:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVIr0a2TLf9vGaCN2pJBp4cNHFJxHvf3T
If you are interested in more details about how, where and why Ecosia plants trees, maybe these articles in the Ecosia blog will help:
blog.ecosia.org/everyone-getting-tree-planting-wrong
blog.ecosia.org/how-do-ecosia-trees-survive-cut-down
blog.ecosia.org/where-why-how-does-ecosia-plant-trees
#TreeUpdate #TreePlanting #Transparency #TreeIndustry
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Director & Producer Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Creative director Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada) and Fátima González-Torres
Script Fátima González-Torres
Research lead Antonia Burchard-Levine and Fátima González-Torres
Script editing Joshua Gottlieb (IG: @joshigot)
Cinematographer Pako Quijada
Editing & post-production Pako Quijada
Motion graphics & animation Pako Quijada
Additional support Wells for Zoë
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Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
ecosia.org
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org
Welcome to Climate Brief, an Ecosia series on how to navigate the era of climate change. In this episode we go through 3 things we can all do for free to have a more structural impact on the protection of our climate.
00:30 Energy providers
01:23 Ethical banking
02:55 Plant-based diet
#ClimateBrief #SystemicChange #ClimateChange
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Main sources:
grist.org/language/exxonmobil-climate-change-harvard-study
https://www.ipcc.ch/2020/07/31/energy-climatechallenge/
ran.org/bankingonclimatechaos2021
https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/
fossilbanks.org
ran.org/bankingonclimatechaos2021
Energy providers (not sponsored):
https://buergerwerke.de/ecosia-aktion/
https://www.ews-schoenau.de/partner/eco/oekostrom
https://www.greenpeace-energy.de/
https://www.lichtblick.de/oekostrom
https://strom.naturstrom.de/
Ethical banks (not sponsored):
https://www.tomorrow.one/en-EU/
https://www.triodos.de/privatkunden
https://www.gls.de/privatkunden/
edition.cnn.com/2019/06/25/business/aspiration-bank-wells-fargo/index.html
creditcards.com/credit-card-news/environmental-eco-friendly-green-card-1273
https://www.mebank.com.au/about-us/fossil-free/
The impact of meat consumption on the environment:
ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-per-protein-poore
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2018.1528965
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/68899/WHO_CDS_CPE_ZFK_2004.9.pdf
cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17187567
jstor.org/stable/43288152?seq=1
nytimes.com/2019/04/30/dining/climate-change-recipes-sustainable.html
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For decades, the PR work of big oil companies have made the public believe that reducing one’s own personal carbon footprint is the best way to solve the climate crisis. The work of simply reducing one’s personal carbon footprint has long comforted consumers around the world, all while putting unfair pressure on individuals for a crisis caused primarily by industrial emissions.
However, some individual decisions do have the potential to create the structural change needed to take away power from those very corporations trying to convince us that the climate crisis can be solved by renouncing plastic straws or buying “sustainable” fashion.
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Director & Producer Fátima González-Torres (IG: @fatilugonzalevic)
Creative directors Sina Samavati (IG: @sinasamavati) and Pako Quijada (IG: @pakoquijada)
Script Fátima González-Torres and Joshua Gottlieb (IG: @joshigot)
Research lead Ceri Flook, Fátima González-Torres, and Joshua Gottlieb
Script editing Joshua Gottlieb
Cinematographers Sina Samavati, Pako Quijada, Shane Thomas McMillan (IG: @dokumentarian)
Editing & post-production Sina Samavati
Motion graphics & animation Sina Samavati and Pako Quijada
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Punch keys to plant trees! Make Ecosia your default search engine:
ecosia.org
Ecosia is available for Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Safari and many more.
You can also start your own forest through the Ecosia app:
ecosia.co/ecosiaformobile
Follow how your searches are replenishing the planet by visiting our blog (blog.ecosia.org), Instagram (@ecosia) and Twitter (@Ecosia).
Want to make a difference? Check out our Tree Store and buy trees for climate action, trees that purify water sources, trees that empower women, and many more! After your purchase, we’ll email you a certificate that makes a thoughtful gift: plant.ecosia.org


