THE
RESTORATION
HAS BEGUN
Restoring 1M acres in the heart of America | Creating millions of dollars of value
Reducing America’s carbon footprint | Generating highest quality offsets for business
Engaging employees, local & national volunteers | Protecting vulnerable communities
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.
100K+
acres have been restored
Equal to ~80,000 + football fields
21,700,000
metrics tons of CO2 has been sequestered
Equivalent of taking ~4,717,390 cars off the road for one year
10 B+
gallons of freshwater per year have been diverted
This amount of water could fill over 15,151 Olympic-size pools
Restore the Earth’s Four-Legged Friend Saves the Day
Trebor, who works for longtime REF partner Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and his dog Roseau, who has been our planting companion on many outings, came to the rescue last month to help boaters who were stuck on a mud flat. Read the heartwarming story...
P.J. and Marv Marshall to be Honored for Service to Coastal Louisiana at Rougarou Ball
It is a great honor to announce that Restore the Earth Foundation’s (REF) Co-Founders P.J. and Marv Marshall have been chosen to receive the South Louisiana Wetlands Discovery Center’s 2017 John W. Woodard Award. This award recognizes those who have dedicated service...
Congratulations to REF Partner: Carol Cone ON PURPOSE Marks First Anniversary as Purpose Collaborative Continues Rapid Expansion
NEW YORK, NY (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 06, 2017 It has been one year since Carol Cone, the trailblazer often called the “Mother of Cause Branding,” launched a new business and social purpose consultancy, Carol Cone ON PURPOSE (CCOP), and along with it,...
Watch P.J. Marshall Present Our EcoMetrics Model at New Metrics
In November 2016, Restore the Earth Foundation (REF) Co-Founder and Executive Director P.J. Marshall presented at Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics Conference. The conference focused on the new set of values being adopted by businesses and their leaders. These new...
Leadership in 2017: Restoration Begins at Home — With New Thinking
Community members gather in Chauvin, Louisiana to discuss the impact of environmental degradation on their lives and livelihoods and the potential for restoration and resilience. It’s easy to see the magnitude of change over time while watching a time-lapse video. As...
VMware Joins One Million Acre Landscape-Scale Restoration Project
VMware recently announced its partnership with Restore the Earth Foundation 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 ecosystem once so rich in...
New Metrics for a New Economy: Restore the Earth’s EcoMetrics Model
By P.J. Marshall, Co-founder & Executive Director, Restore the Earth Foundation Originally posted on Sustainable Brands' website on 11/15/16. The New Economy has begun. One year into a world where global leaders have agreed to act on 17 concrete Sustainable...
North America’s Amazon: The Restoration Has Begun
On Thursday, October 27, 2016, over 120 people joined Restore the Earth Foundation to celebrate the groundbreaking of our initiative to restore one million acres in the Mississippi River Basin—a vast ecosystem once so rich in biological and environmental resources...
The Houma Courier: Nonprofit group starts restoration project
By Sean Ellis, The Houma Courier A nonprofit organization broke ground today on an initiative to restore 1 million acres of land in the Mississippi River Basin with the planting of trees in Pointe-aux-Chenes. P.J. Marshall, co-founder and executive director of the...
The Houma Courier: State partners with group to restore area swamps
By Kevinisha Walker, The Houma Courier Until the mid-20th century, bald cypress filled 4,000 acres of Pointe-aux-Chenes’ forested wetlands, but erosion, sinking land and Gulf of Mexico storms have since destroyed most of them. In 2002, an oil and gas company tried to...