16 December 2009 An interview with Olman Serrano, where he establishes a link between Buenos Aires and Copenhagen and the linkages between forestry and agriculture in a holistic approach to combat carbon emissions and to fight hunger. [more...]

11 December 2009 The United Nations has proposed a framework known as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries) that would provide financial incentives to rainforest nations to protect their forests, in an effort to make forests worth "more alive than dead." Implementing a global REDD system will require that each nation have the ability to accurately monitor and report the state of their forests over time, in a manner that is independently verifiable. However, many of these tropical nations of the world lack the technological resources to do this, so we're working with scientists, governments and non-profits to change this. Here's what we've done with this prototype to help nations monitor their forests: [more...]