How can organisations actively participate in creating a better world for all, a world where both commerce and planet thrive? There are a variety of approaches that can be taken, and that TreeSisters as a reforestation and women’s empowerment charity have collaborated with organisations on. Pukka Herbs has made the commitment to plant a tree for every product sold, embedding love, reciprocity and restoration into every cup of tea. Image Credit: Pukka Herbs.

One of the biggest festivals in the world is growing a legacy forest. In the Summer of 2019, Boomtown Fair harnessed the power of joy and music to give a gift back to the world - the gift of a legacy forest with one tree for everyone who attended the festival. Over the course of five days, they raised enough money to fund 77,725 trees.

In July 2020, I founded Stardust Life Centered Design. Stardust is the culmination of ten years’ dreaming while moving. It’s an offering, an homage, an honouring of the knowledge that our world’s system of living is undergoing its most unprecedented change. The ethos behind it is that we are made of the same substance as all of life - stardust. If we remember this, we will no longer live in opposition to life but in partnership and collaboration with it.

The journey to planting a billion trees a year continues. In 2019, TreeSisters announced three new planting projects in West Papua, Mozambique, and in Amazonia, our first indigenous-led planting project, developed by the Ashaninka tribe. Photo credit: Aquaverde, TreeSisters planting partner.

One of the most daunting aspects of climate change is the sheer immensity of it - but is that aspect daunting or empowering? In a sense, it means that everyone has a collective responsibility to be a part of the solution, everyone has the opportunity to save what has been lost. Explore some of the ways we can take to move from a consumer species to a restorer species.