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
Putting Natural Capital to Work: How Business Can Benefit from Landscape-Scale Restoration
This article has been submitted as part of the Natural Capital Coalition‘s series of blogs on natural capital by PJ Marshall, co-founder and executive director of Restore the Earth Foundation. In July, global business leaders welcomed the launch of...
A “Perfect Storm” of Cooperation Along the Gulf Coast
Edwin Piñero; President, The Piñero Group August 8, 2016 Even though we speak often of the value of the Mississippi Delta area and the Gulf Coast in general, many still do not realize how important that area really is. More significantly, many do not...
Louisiana Wetlands Restoration Project Offers Corporate Investors a Social Return
Travel in Pointe aux Chenes, a 35,000-acre swampy marshland southwest of New Orleans, is difficult. The 680 members of the Pointe-au-Chien Tribe who call it home historically used canoes carved from native bald cypress trees – a species often compared in size and...
US BCSD and Restore the Earth Foundation Strategic Alliance Aims to Restore Last Line of Defense from Open Water for Two Louisiana Parishes
New Haven, CT – June 14, 2016. The United States Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD) and the Restore the Earth Foundation announced their Strategic Alliance for landscape-scale restoration and a $1 million Collaborative Fund today at the US...
Why Business is Investing in Landscape Restoration in the Mississippi River Basin
A new private-public fund aims to bring back North America’s Amazon. The Mississippi River Basin—which generates $200 billion in economic value annually from commerce and recreation—is central to commerce and a pillar in the U.S. economy. Individuals and...
Breaking Ground on the Restoration of America’s Amazon
We break ground on the restoration of North America’s Amazon in fall 2016. The first project will restore 4,000 acres of freshwater-forested wetland in the Pointe-aux-Chenes Bald Cypress Forest Wetland, Louisiana. The selection of this particular site is deeply...
Coastal Groups Complete Another Major Reforestation Effort
This week marks the completion of a 10,000 tree reforestation initiative executed by Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana (CRCL) in partnership with Restore the Earth Foundation (REF) and the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation...
A New Story: Takeaways from the 2015 Paris Climate Conference
At the 2015 Paris Climate Conference, known as COP21, 150 world leaders emerged with an agreement to limit the rise of temperature increases “well below 2°C” above pre-industrial temperatures with a hopeful target to limit it to 1.5°C. It is an ambitious goal,...
GreenBiz publishes Restore the Earth
GreenBiz features our business case for landscape-scale restoration in the article, “Why Entergy, Wells Fargo and Timberland invest in restoration.” Business leaders who invest in landscape restoration are reducing their climate risks, enhancing their reputation and...
Huffington Post features Restore the Earth
In the midst of the climate conference in Paris, HuffPost Green featured our piece, “The Most Powerful Climate Solution You’ve Never Heard Of” on the safe, proven effective and shovel-ready practice of landscape-scale restoration. Sustainable land-management practices...
Silicon Valley Firm Joins the Collaborative Fund
Our latest video with partner VMware shows the power of collaboration
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NORTH AMERICA’S AMAZON A MILLION ACRE OPPORTUNITY
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