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

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...

Watch P.J. Marshall Present Our EcoMetrics Model at New Metrics

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

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 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

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

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

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

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...

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

A project at the heart of America that will have a global impact.

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