Five years of urban forest transformation in real time — Trees have a way of connecting people I was standing in the crowd at Sustainable Brands Rio in 2016 — an annual convergence sparked by visionary Koann — surrounded by Brazil’s most innovative leaders. I had just said to a local colleague: “These stories about business in the Amazon are interesting, but I would dearly love to…

There are amazing things going on around the world to restore urban forests. …

What follows is a transcript of the above recorded dialogue featuring Adan Rodrigo Trolesi Pereira and Antonio (Toninho) Mates Pereira. This is part 2 of a 3-part speaker series piloted by the Global Regeneration CoLab in 2021. (Full YouTube playlist here.) As Quilombolas in Brazil they have a unique…

After a presentation I gave about the regenerative economy in São Paulo, Brazil last September I was approached by an enthusiastic gentlemen named Leandro Santos. …

What if you were sitting in a large reserve of a unique tropical forest ecosystem, listening to the bird ruckus of endemic species, when you suddenly realized you were in fact sitting among the integrated assets of a profitable company? What if you discovered that those assets were only valuable…