Why reforest

Reforestations are essential activities to help revitalize the health of the Earth and combat climate change. Today around the world the deforestation has grown to an alarming rate exceeding by far the index of reforestations, this brings catastrophic consequences to the atmosphere as well as for other organisms that's depend on these forests for habitat..

We have but a short time to avert damaging and economically debilitating climate change. We also have all the economic, intellectual and technological know-how to head off this calamity and avoid the disruption and misery that inaction would entail.
The solutions are numerous and, as many economists say, affordable when compared with the costs of complacency.

Globally, forest cover is at least one-third less than what it once was. It is time to reverse the trends, it is time to act.

Climate change confronts us now. There is no longer conjecture or debate around an abstract or hypothetical future. We need action. We need to plant trees and in doing so send a signal to the corridors of political power across the globe that the watching and waiting is over — that countering climate change can take root via one billion small but significant acts in our gardens, parks, countryside and rural areas.
Achim Steiner, Executive Director
United Nations Environment Programme

” The question is not whether climate change is happening but whether, in the face of this emergency, we ourselves can change fast enough”
Kofi annan


Our reforestation programs.

Our innovative reforestations combine the plantation of trees fused with a multicultural events, workshops and temporary ecologically friendly living spaces that last from a few days to several weeks. This promotes reforestation events not only as necessary duty of each individual to combat climate change, but coordinating a culturally appealing, attractive and fun activity for youth.

Through the reforestations and creative activities and workshops we intend to generate a deep and lasting effect, as much for the local communities as well as for the participants and simultaneously create a forest or of fruit jungle that can also help as nutritious source of food of the communities, as well as to absorb carbon dioxide emissions which are exceeding on our planet.

Another key point is the life and direct experience of participating in a ecological community with all the benefits and complications that this carries, thus also promoting ecovillage living and a more sustainable lifestyle. Subjects are raised among consensus and facilitation, distribution of tasks to be able to maintain a harmonically working community as well promoting principals to respect the environment.

Each person when entering to the event must sign in agreement to a letter of terms conditions that is provided upon entry, in this way the basic concepts of communitarian life are established and the people are informed of basic notions of how to behave in the environment preventing that the space does not suffer of negative ecological effects.

We use horses to transport the baby trees to their location minimizing our carbon emissions. The event is non-commercial, the event is free for all and vegetarian food is provided in exchange for the plantation of a prefixed number of trees.

We consider essential to compliment the reforestations with environmental education initiatives thus helping raise awareness of the importance of planting trees and conservation. We work together with governmental and nongovernmental organization to help monitor the trees. We organize plantations in schools accompanied by the students, in this case we prefer to plant fruit trees which also helps the students to have fresh fruits right in school, this being specially very beneficial in low income villages.


II Reforestation Festival
Palenque, Chiapas
Mexico
December 2005
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Temporary ecovillage habitat.

Participants have the opportunity to offer workshops with a cultural or ecological focus, like for example: Acoustic Music, permaculture, cob brick building, African Dance, collective Intelligence, consensus and facilitation, handcrafts from recycled materials, Horse maintenance and care, temascal (sweat lodge), Maya calendar, African percussion, yoga, martial arts and capoeira

In order to be able to live in this communal space that hosts a considerable amount of people, it is necessary to distribute the work equitably. For that reason we created the energetic administration that equilibrates workload. Which is vital in successfully maintain an organic community in a natural context.

In the morning, after the breakfast we form a circle of discussion where people take responsibility for choirs and activities. The tasks are distributed according to the amount of people that attend, divided by the amount of necessary activities.

Usually during or after every reforestation we take the time to organize a show for the village, that combines ethnic music, dances and many acts. We also use the space and time to respectfully transmit ecological messages.

This innovative event seeks to propose a new way to make events without a negative impact to environment, as well also to raise awareness in the participants and the local communities, on the importance of reforestations and sustainable development in a creative, dynamic, attractive and effective method.

III Reforestation Festival
Chapultenango, Chiapas
Mexico
Augst 2006
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