Restore the Earth Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. We’ve unlocked the business case for landscape scale restoration and we’re using it to restore 1 million acres in the Mississippi River Basin, North America’s Amazon.

We go beyond talk to action; since 2008 we’ve tested and refined every element of our approach with real projects on the ground.

150K+

acres have been restored

Equal to ~120,000 + football fields

32,550,000

metrics tons of CO2 sequestered over the lifetime of the projects

Equivalent of taking ~7,076,085 cars off the road for one year

15 B+

gallons of freshwater per year have been diverted

This amount of water could fill over 22,727 Olympic-size pools

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Restore the Earth Foundation Awarded Louisiana’s First Water Quality Credits

May 6, 2025

St. Charles Parish, Louisiana – May 6, 2025 – Restore the Earth Foundation (REF) is proud to announce the first-in-the-state approval of water quality credits by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ). The credits represent improvement in surface water quality generated from our large-scale, native cypress reforestation at Salvador Wildlife Management Area (WMA), just outside of New Orleans, LA which is owned and managed by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF). These credits can be purchased by entities wishing to invest in and be recognized for water quality improvements and provide a market-based avenue for investment in non-point source pollution reduction.

Restore the Earth Foundation Partners with John Swire & Sons Limited to Restore Critical Habitat and Storm Protection Barrier Outside New Orleans

Mar 4, 2025

New Orleans, LA - March 4, 2025 – Restore the Earth Foundation (REF) and John Swire & Sons, Limited (Swire) have partnered to restore 10,000 acres of native bald cypress swamp forest at Joyce and Timken/Couba Island Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) in coastal...

USDA NRCS and Restore the Earth Foundation Accepting Applications for 2 RCPP Projects to Reforest 10,000 Acres in Arkansas

Mar 4, 2025

Pilot Program Leverages $32M in Private Funds with $32M in Public Funds Little Rock, AR - March 4, 2025 – Starting today through May 31, 2025, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Restore the Earth Foundation (REF) are accepting applications for...

REF Receives Second RCPP Award to Launch Pilot in Arkansas

Nov 11, 2023

Easton, MD, November 11, 2023 – Restore the Earth Foundation, Inc. (REF) is pleased to announce that it was awarded a $25 million grant from the USDA Nature Resource Conservation (NRCS), Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP). REF brings private partner...

Chevron and Restore the Earth Foundation agree to collaborate on carbon offsets reforestation project in Louisiana

Mar 28, 2022

HOUSTON / ITHACA, N.Y. — March 28, 2022 -- Chevron U.S.A. Inc., through its Chevron New Energies division, and Restore the Earth Foundation, Inc. announced agreement for a reforestation project for up to 8,800 acres of property in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. The...

Heritage and ClimeCo Provide Capital to Restore the Earth Foundation

Jul 15, 2021

July 15, 2021 (Indianapolis, IN) – Heritage Sustainability Investments, LLC, a subsidiary of The Heritage Group and affiliate of Heritage Environmental Services, LLC, (collectively, Heritage), and ClimeCo joined together to provide capital to Restore the Earth...

Restore the Earth Foundation Awarded $7.4 million USDA Grant for Critical Pilot Project in North America’s Amazon -The Mississippi River Basin

Jun 3, 2021

Restore the Earth Foundation, Inc. (REF) is pleased to announce that it was awarded a $7.4 million grant from the USDA Nature Resource Conservation (NRCS), Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP). REF has secured private investment partners to match and amplify this NRCS public funding for a total of $19 million, toward a collaborative private/public partnership to address managing and protecting the watershed, restoring degraded lands to native forests.

EcoMetrics and Aqaix join forces to offer new financing strategies for Nature Based Solutions

Apr 26, 2021

Nature Based Solutions are being rapidly adopted to solve industry problems with climate change, pollution, and water quantity and quality New York and Santa Cruz, April 26, 2021, Business Wire -- EcoMetrics, LLC, the premier provider of measurement to quantify and...

GreenBiz—Planting trees and sowing seeds: 4 tenets of a powerful, public-private climate alliance

Feb 11, 2021

Originally posted by GreenBiz. By Anastasia Behr, Associate Carbon Director at Corporate Sustainability Group at Dow, Taylor Marshall, Director of Sustainable Programs at Restore the Earth, and Zen Saunders, Regulatory Services Leader at Dow. The past decade was the...

Restore the Earth Foundation Enters Strategic Partnership with ClimeCo

Apr 14, 2020

April 14, 2020 (ITHACA, NY) – Restore the Earth Foundation, Inc. (Restore the Earth) is thrilled to announce the formation of a strategic partnership with ClimeCo, a Pennsylvania-based developer and marketer of environmental commodities, to advance the landscape-scale...