Reforesting the land used to produce feed and fodder for livestock would remove billions of tonnes of CO2 each year and would not come at the expense of producing abundant and nutritious food for humanity, as meat and dairy are unnecessary in the human diet.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Reforesting the land used to produce feed and fodder for livestock would remove billions of tonnes of CO2 each year and would not come at the expense of producing abundant and nutritious food for humanity, as meat and dairy are unnecessary in the human diet.
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Excellent wee film with my friend Lesley on what's happened to Scotland's trees.
#landreform
#reforestingscotland
#reforesting
#Carboncaptureandstorage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV1SiYeu4
#landreform
#reforestingscotland
#reforesting
#Carboncaptureandstorage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV1SiYeu4
November 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Excellent wee film with my friend Lesley on what's happened to Scotland's trees.
#landreform
#reforestingscotland
#reforesting
#Carboncaptureandstorage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV1SiYeu4
#landreform
#reforestingscotland
#reforesting
#Carboncaptureandstorage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV1SiYeu4
There are actions the country could take now, she said: “Nature-based solutions including restoring wetlands, reforesting catchments and improving soil health all help retain water in the landscape and slow its movement through river systems. Households can also help by reducing water use
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
Country surrounded by water has water shortages.
2024: 1trn litre of lost to leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 4m hours.
No new reservoirs.
Investment neglected, £85bn paid in dividend.
Record high water bills.
People fleeced.
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
There are actions the country could take now, she said: “Nature-based solutions including restoring wetlands, reforesting catchments and improving soil health all help retain water in the landscape and slow its movement through river systems. Households can also help by reducing water use
“Nature-based solutions including restoring wetlands, reforesting catchments and improving soil health all help retain water in the landscape and slow its movement through river systems."
Ploughed fields - excellent for run off into dredged rivers to the sea 😬
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Ploughed fields - excellent for run off into dredged rivers to the sea 😬
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
“Nature-based solutions including restoring wetlands, reforesting catchments and improving soil health all help retain water in the landscape and slow its movement through river systems."
Ploughed fields - excellent for run off into dredged rivers to the sea 😬
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Ploughed fields - excellent for run off into dredged rivers to the sea 😬
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wonderful PhD work on 'reforesting the architectural imagination' (picture below unrelated to content) www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...
Elin Söderberg
Tingskog - A Proposal to Reforest the Contemporary Architectural Imagination of Things
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November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Wonderful PhD work on 'reforesting the architectural imagination' (picture below unrelated to content) www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/arc...
Excellent conversation with @yishan.bsky.social “Reforesting 3 Billion Acres: We made Terraware not because this is the most genius piece of technology that will change the world. We said, let's just help forestry teams achieve certain basic necessary activities."
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Terraformation CEO Yishan Wong On Reforesting 3 Billion Acres
Podcast Episode · Sustainability In Your Ear · 11/03/2025 · 48m
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November 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Excellent conversation with @yishan.bsky.social “Reforesting 3 Billion Acres: We made Terraware not because this is the most genius piece of technology that will change the world. We said, let's just help forestry teams achieve certain basic necessary activities."
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Sustainability In Your Ear: Terraformation CEO Yishan Wong On Reforesting 3 Billion Acres
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Sustainability In Your Ear: Terraformation CEO Yishan Wong On Reforesting 3 Billion Acres
Most Silicon Valley CEOs who cash out their stock options start another tech company. Yishan Wong planted trees instead. After helping build PayPal, Facebook, and serving as Reddit’s CEO, Wong concluded that humanity’s biggest challenge wouldn’t be solved with algorithms...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
📣 New Podcast! "Terraformation CEO Yishan Wong On Reforesting 3 Billion Acres" on @Spreaker #biodiverse_reforestation #forestry #forestry_infrastructure #interview #open_source #reforestation #seed_banks #terraformation #tree_planting #yishan_wong
Terraformation CEO Yishan Wong On Reforesting 3 Billion Acres
Most Silicon Valley CEOs who cash out their stock options start another tech company. Yishan Wong planted trees instead. After helping build PayPal, Facebook, and serving as Reddit's CEO, Wong concluded that humanity's biggest challenge wouldn't be solved with algorithms or network effects—it would be solved by restoring the planet's forests at an unprecedented scale. Mitch Ratcliffe sits down with Wong to discuss https://www.terraformation.com/, the company he founded in 2020 with an audacious mission: restore 3 billion acres of native forest worldwide—an area larger than the entire United States.
Planting a trillion trees isn't just about seeds in the ground. It's about solving bottlenecks like funding gaps that leave 95% of qualified forestry teams without resources, seed shortages, lack of infrastructure and technology, gaps in tracking and verification. Terraformation built a support system that includes https://eos-gnss.com/successes/terraformation, which is called Terraware and a seed to carbon forest accelerator that's modeled on tech startup accelerators. Since founding Terraformation, Wong has enabled the planting of over 4.7 million trees across 394 species, established 19 seed banks and 21 nurseries and created more than 798 jobs.
"We made Terraware not because this is the most genius piece of technology that will change the world," Yishan explains. "We said, hey, let's just help forestry teams achieve certain basic necessary activities." Unlike commercial timber plantations that prioritize fast-growing monocultures, Terraformation focuses on biodiverse native forests. Native tree species can support an order of magnitude more life than non-native species because they've co-evolved over millions of years. "Trees are the anchor species for a forest ecosystem," he added. "What you're doing is you're growing trees as the anchor species so that all of the other life in that forest ecosystem comes back."
Terraformation recently won the https://www.climatecurve.org/laureates and the https://g20land.org/restorlife-awards-2025-honors-two-visionary-environmental-initiatives/. The company also received recognition at the https://sustainabilitymag.com/news/terraformation-recognised-for-sustainable-innovations, winning SME Company of the Year. Yishan explains why a former Reddit CEO believes in low tech solutions that are the right approach to climate change, how Silicon Valley's lessons about scaling systems could apply to reforestation and what it takes to build an organization designed to be replicated rather than defended. You can learn more about the company at https://Terraformation.com.
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Dr. Charles Fletcher on the end of transhumance on Lewis, in 'Reforesting Scotland' Issue 72: Autumn/Winter 2025:
A quote from Reforesting Scotland 72
Earlier this year I visited the township of Bragar on the Isle of Lewis to research shielings. I was told the story of a local resident, Mr. Campbell, wh...
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Dr. Charles Fletcher on the end of transhumance on Lewis, in 'Reforesting Scotland' Issue 72: Autumn/Winter 2025:
Buzzing! After breakfast I got a tour of the grounds of my B&B, and whilst it’s mostly lovely they’ve got loads of rhododendrons taking over their woodland… that they’re happy for @protect.earth to remove!
Now I’ve just had a tour of a struggling farm that has land in need of reforesting. 🥳
Now I’ve just had a tour of a struggling farm that has land in need of reforesting. 🥳
November 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Buzzing! After breakfast I got a tour of the grounds of my B&B, and whilst it’s mostly lovely they’ve got loads of rhododendrons taking over their woodland… that they’re happy for @protect.earth to remove!
Now I’ve just had a tour of a struggling farm that has land in need of reforesting. 🥳
Now I’ve just had a tour of a struggling farm that has land in need of reforesting. 🥳
reforesting the amazon, 100 million trees at a time. ididnthavemyglasseson.com/2025/10/26/r...
reforesting the amazon, 100 million trees at a time.
Skydiving legend, Luigi Cani, aims to breathe new life into our world The Earth is one giant, living organism, and we have the privilege of calling it home. We enjoy the beauty of blue skies, the s…
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October 26, 2025 at 11:41 AM
reforesting the amazon, 100 million trees at a time. ididnthavemyglasseson.com/2025/10/26/r...
Costa Rica has done an AMAZING job of reforesting their country and caring for nature. They're an example for us all
#costarica #reforesting #caring #savenature #saveenvironment
Check this link they have done:
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#costarica #reforesting #caring #savenature #saveenvironment
Check this link they have done:
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October 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Costa Rica has done an AMAZING job of reforesting their country and caring for nature. They're an example for us all
#costarica #reforesting #caring #savenature #saveenvironment
Check this link they have done:
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#costarica #reforesting #caring #savenature #saveenvironment
Check this link they have done:
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Ever since I was a kid, I’ve dreamed of buying and then reforesting an entire state. For some reason, I fixated on Maine (Sorry, Mainers!!!). Little did I know the process was called rewilding. 12-year-old me definitely needed this book.
October 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve dreamed of buying and then reforesting an entire state. For some reason, I fixated on Maine (Sorry, Mainers!!!). Little did I know the process was called rewilding. 12-year-old me definitely needed this book.
It's widely reported that #china has been building out huge amounts of #solar photovoltaic generation, and of course that is a big contributor to slowing #climatechange. But what I discovered to my surprise this week is that China is also #reforesting faster than almost anywhere else on Earth […]
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October 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
It's widely reported that #china has been building out huge amounts of #solar photovoltaic generation, and of course that is a big contributor to slowing #climatechange. But what I discovered to my surprise this week is that China is also #reforesting faster than almost anywhere else on Earth […]
Yes the emissions from not reforesting all of the agricultural land is about 10 MtCO2e per year. Does it make sense to strop growing food?
Fighting climate change is about stopping fossil fuel use.
You claim that stopping tree felling is more important than stopping fossil fuel use?
Fighting climate change is about stopping fossil fuel use.
You claim that stopping tree felling is more important than stopping fossil fuel use?
October 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Yes the emissions from not reforesting all of the agricultural land is about 10 MtCO2e per year. Does it make sense to strop growing food?
Fighting climate change is about stopping fossil fuel use.
You claim that stopping tree felling is more important than stopping fossil fuel use?
Fighting climate change is about stopping fossil fuel use.
You claim that stopping tree felling is more important than stopping fossil fuel use?
Thanks to the Eco West Enders and City of Ottawa staff for organizing today’s tree planting event at CARDELREC. Reforesting an area that was damaged by the derecho in 2022.
October 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Thanks to the Eco West Enders and City of Ottawa staff for organizing today’s tree planting event at CARDELREC. Reforesting an area that was damaged by the derecho in 2022.
If this Government genuinely feared wildfires, they would be taking bold action to tackle the climate crisis head-on. That means rewetting peatlands, rewilding and reforesting landscapes to retain water, and accelerating the reintroduction of beavers and apex predators.
October 16, 2025 at 10:01 AM
If this Government genuinely feared wildfires, they would be taking bold action to tackle the climate crisis head-on. That means rewetting peatlands, rewilding and reforesting landscapes to retain water, and accelerating the reintroduction of beavers and apex predators.
They are cutting down pine plantations near to where I live and reforesting with oak and birch.
October 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
They are cutting down pine plantations near to where I live and reforesting with oak and birch.
class smart industrial city, with cutting-edge infrastructure to attract investors, and to follow green and sustainable initiatives, such as using a 15-Minute City model to reduce car dependency and reforesting 133ha of mangroves. While the plans for this city seem much more feasible than other new-
October 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
class smart industrial city, with cutting-edge infrastructure to attract investors, and to follow green and sustainable initiatives, such as using a 15-Minute City model to reduce car dependency and reforesting 133ha of mangroves. While the plans for this city seem much more feasible than other new-
The funniest insights we got from the invasion is how incredibly useful forests are in defending your border. How Ukraine was able to use the dense Northern forests to ambush Russian convoys. And barely a year into the war, Poland started reforesting its borderlands. lol
There is a big probability that there may be mines on the border with Russia and Belarus.
October 14, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The funniest insights we got from the invasion is how incredibly useful forests are in defending your border. How Ukraine was able to use the dense Northern forests to ambush Russian convoys. And barely a year into the war, Poland started reforesting its borderlands. lol
Bad enough not reforesting, but deliberately logging 30 acres of native forest is wicked.
Deserves a lengthy custodial sentence.
Still Mehole says we can't address climate change because it might polarise society.
Think he's already done that though: rich v poor; haves v have nots. Wicked.
Deserves a lengthy custodial sentence.
Still Mehole says we can't address climate change because it might polarise society.
Think he's already done that though: rich v poor; haves v have nots. Wicked.
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Bad enough not reforesting, but deliberately logging 30 acres of native forest is wicked.
Deserves a lengthy custodial sentence.
Still Mehole says we can't address climate change because it might polarise society.
Think he's already done that though: rich v poor; haves v have nots. Wicked.
Deserves a lengthy custodial sentence.
Still Mehole says we can't address climate change because it might polarise society.
Think he's already done that though: rich v poor; haves v have nots. Wicked.
#Wildlife conservation is like reforesting or #rewilding. Pure #greenwashing to avoid meaningful changes.
Unless we first ban beef & dairy - we make everything only worse since we only outsource and hide land use to new (old-growth rainforest) regions. No flat Earth and no hiding.
Unless we first ban beef & dairy - we make everything only worse since we only outsource and hide land use to new (old-growth rainforest) regions. No flat Earth and no hiding.
October 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
#Wildlife conservation is like reforesting or #rewilding. Pure #greenwashing to avoid meaningful changes.
Unless we first ban beef & dairy - we make everything only worse since we only outsource and hide land use to new (old-growth rainforest) regions. No flat Earth and no hiding.
Unless we first ban beef & dairy - we make everything only worse since we only outsource and hide land use to new (old-growth rainforest) regions. No flat Earth and no hiding.
Sometimes referred to as "lesser apes," gibbons dwell high in the canopy of tropical and subtropical rainforests across East, South, and Southeast Asia. Known for their agility and grace, and their complex songs, these primates are crucial to reforesting their ecosystems. youtu.be/uEct1wVggwQ
Gibbons—The Small Apes
YouTube video by New England Primate Conservancy
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October 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Sometimes referred to as "lesser apes," gibbons dwell high in the canopy of tropical and subtropical rainforests across East, South, and Southeast Asia. Known for their agility and grace, and their complex songs, these primates are crucial to reforesting their ecosystems. youtu.be/uEct1wVggwQ
“… from a $156M statewide grant he helped clinch that can pay for rooftop solar panels for low-income residents. Other fed programs will fund urban reforesting and map Reno’s hottest neighborhoods.”
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This City Is Tapping a Climate Cash Bonanza While It Can (Published 2024)
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October 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“… from a $156M statewide grant he helped clinch that can pay for rooftop solar panels for low-income residents. Other fed programs will fund urban reforesting and map Reno’s hottest neighborhoods.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/c...
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ouhhhh....that's so true 😤 I'm reforesting
October 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
ouhhhh....that's so true 😤 I'm reforesting