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Press Release: Restore the Earth Foundation donates “Marsh Master” to LDWF
Oct. 28, 2016 – Restore the Earth Foundation announced its gift of a Marsh Master to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries at its groundbreaking at Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area on October 27th. The Marsh Master, built by Coast...
Press Release: Melancon pledges LDWF support to Restore the Earth’s restoration effort
Oct. 28, 2016 – “You have our total support,” Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Charlie Melancon pledged Thursday to a national organization attempting to restore some 1 million acres of land along the Lower Mississippi River Basin, or as...
Press Release: Restore the Earth Foundation Breaks Ground on One-Million-Acre Landscape-Scale Restoration Project
Pointe-aux-Chenes, Louisiana—October 2016—On October 27, Restore the Earth Foundation will break ground on a bold new landscape-scale restoration project to restore one million acres of degraded land in the lower part of the Mississippi River Basin— a vast...
Breaking Ground on a Bold New Vision to Address Climate Change: Restoring North America’s Amazon
On November 4, the historic Paris Agreement for global action on climate change will enter into force, catalyzing collective action by governments, civil society organizations, and businesses to collaborate on building a 2°C future. “Now we must move from words to...
Unlocking the Billion-Dollar Business Case at IUCN
Our dynamic team at IUCN Congress 2016; Henry Hicksy, Futerra; Susan Fernandes, US Business Council for Sustainable Development; Ed Pinero, The Pinero Group; PJ Marshall, Restore the Earth; Marv Marshall, Restore the Earth; Carol Cone, Carol Cone on Purpose; Taylor...
Louisiana Floods: Restoration Will Help Us Build Back Better
In Baton Rouge these past weekends, the “Cajun Navy” was out in force cleaning up after the devastating Louisiana floods that killed 17 people and forced thousands of others to leave their homes. Despite the crushing heat and debris-filled neighborhoods, the mood felt...
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...
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