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NickAzer
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Please introduce yourself to the rest of the community here. Tell us a bit about yourself, your projects and your relation to XPRIZE.
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If you have any community-related questions or need help, feel free to send me a message here anytime or email me at nick.azer@xprize.org! I'm here to help, and I'm excited about this fascinating Amazon Rainforest project.
I'm very excited about our project and eager to continue learning and engaging with you all as we design this prize to help save the Amazon Rainforest! Please feel free to reach out and introduce yourself and let me know how I can help.
for the Future of Forests proposal. I am an artist and writer. I make public art, and biggest painting was a 500' mural in Los Angeles, Echo Park area; I live in the Colorado Rockies forests, and write about forest ecology, ethno-ecology and High altitude organic gardening / nature farming no-till methods and soil preservation/enrichment. I run the local community garden and give talks on living in and protecting the high altitude forest habitat.
My research focuses on creativity and thinking. In parallel, for the past 15 years I have been working as a consultant at the intersection between academia and industry. I'm extremely excited to be a part of this project!
In the 90's I took part in an effort for my former employer, Champion International Corporation, to expand our long-running southern Brazilian operations to the north. We purchased 1 million acres of cerrado/rainforest in Amapa State. I then led what at the time was the largest privately-funded Rapid Ecological Assessment of the entire landbase. While the laws at the time would have required that we set aside 20% of each purchased tract as natural habitat, through our assessment and commitment, and with support by Dr. Tom Lovejoy who knew the President of Brazil, we were granted special license to take another approach. That work led to 66% of the entire landbase being protected but in LARGE intact blocks rather than the ineffective patchwork that would have resulted under the law. Not only did this yield far greater gains to natural conservation/diversity, but it surprisingly resulted in a much more economically viable project. There are market-based approaches that can have a great benefit to ecological outcomes.
@AtossaSoltani - thanks for sharing about your work with Amazon Watch and the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative. Our team would love to connect with you to learn more about both further in depth. You should have an invitation in your inbox now.
@CarltonOwen thanks for sharing about your work with Champion International. Our discussion last month spurred on lots of research into supply chain traceability, and recently led to an interview with Maersk. Have you heard any updates or recent news on the TradeLens Blockchain Shipping Solution?
Also, if you would like to weigh in on our most recent discussion around the challenges to monitoring and deterring illegal logging you can click on the LINK HERE.
Again, we’re thrilled to have you both in the community and look forward to learning more from both of you!
I am Anja Puhlmann, focused together with my team of dedicated international experts of Secret Amazonia in our mission as Guardian Angels of the Forest, protecting the Amazon Rainforest.
Vice President Family Office Gloria Starr Kins Group in New York, for Europe & Switzerland. Founder and Professor of the innovative Healthcare Training Center in Switzerland. Supervising international teams and companies, with solution & resource oriented steps. In charge of international relations for Secret Amazonia, Brazil.
I Anja love your dedication together with Peter Diamandis and your team – to find solutions for the challenges that we are currently facing in this our world, that we all share, here with the focus to protect the Amazon Rainforest. I believe in the creative power of synergies in this field. Thank you for your passion and innovative engagement. Good to connect.
Our current focus at Secret Amazonia: Creating tasty, healthy products in collaboration with local partners in Brazil. The Food & beverages products using scientific research of plants and fruits from the Amazone are ready to go, as we speak.
During our research we patented a formula in cooperation with the University Federal of Amazonas ( UFAM), which when added to premium coffee, produces a very pure and high quality product with antioxidant, regenerative and energizing natural properties. With the patented formula H2©, the coffee is roasted and mixed with the H2©. Health the main focus. All products are produced and harvested in a sustainable manner using local sources, materials and products. Other products are getting prepared, like clothes made out of the pineapple fibers from the leaves, as additional product from the juices.
Our mission:
With the Fair Trade organization of Secret Amazonia, the focus is to equally divide all earnings in re-investing substantial parts of all generated profits into the community development projects.
Protecting the Amazon Rainforest through reforestation and with building a School for the native medicinal tribes in the Amazonas to preserve and transfer Cultural Heritage and the high expertize of the medicinal plants for the young generations and in cooperation with international scientists. Green light has been provided already.
Further projects:
Providing film content – with international film directors about the Amazonian Rainforest, with sales of the content to Netflix between others. More in the pipeline.
Short film content:
Flying Rivers in the Amazonian Rainforest, film from Jaime Ocampo Rangel, founder of Secret Amazonia in Brazil with an urgent message to the world, why it is important to take care now for Amazonian Rainforest and its diversity. Time matters.
Website: http://www.secretamazonia.com/
Looking much forward to connect together. Best Anja
I'm Adam Bostock and I have a keen interest in science, technology, innovation, the environment and visions for the future.
I'm a fan of XPRIZEs and have participated in the design of a few (energy and forests, so far).
We are a global reforestation organization, focused on restoring degraded forest landscapes by planting trees with a variety of focus areas including the Amazon rainforest (as well as forest fire recovery, agroforestry, and watershed health in other parts of the world). We work with local communities and only plant native species.
We have one reforestation project in Peru currently, are planning a couple others in Brazil, and are also working on a few more in the Andes which will help the water flow that feeds into the Amazon basin. While our focus is on forest recovery, I am aware that the conservation of existing primary intact forests is also critical for biodiversity and global health. I think the solution lies in both of these strategies, along with political will and engagement with Indigenous communities. I'm happy to be a part of this community, and @NickAzer I'll leave it to you to guide us on what further steps to take after introductions.
@Janetlee my team and I will be in the Boulder area planting trees at Fourmile Canyon on Saturday, April 20th, if you happen to be free I invite you to join us and hundreds of volunteers in restoring areas recovering from forest fires.
Looking forward to learning and engaging with all of you as we design this prize! It is great to see the incredible discussion that has already begun within this community. Please feel free to reach out with any questions or ideas that you may have. My email is kathleen.hamrick@xprize.org.
@Dianachaplin - thanks for sharing about your work with One Tree Planted! Our team would love to connect with you to learn more about your work. You should have an invitation in your inbox now.
Looking forward to contributing with you!
I'm Mariano Cenamo, Forest Engineer (ESALQ/USP) and a social entrepreneur, founder and currently business development director for IDESAM and NGO based in Manaus, capital of Amazonas State in Brazil.
I've been living and working in the Amazon for the last 15 years, mainly focused in climate finance, economic approaches for forest conservation and forest carbon markets, through a wide range of projects, programs and policies to provide creative solutions to reduce deforestation and promote sustainable development for communities and farmers.
In order to sustain long-term results in reducing emissions from deforestation it is imperative to create new economic land use and forest based alternatives for local communities, indigenous peoples, and smallholders/farmers. I believe that if appropriate finance, incubation and acceleration support, market development fair are put in place it is possible to create a new generation of sustainable businesses and "startups" that will pave the way for a low-emissions and forest based economy in the Amazon.
I am very excited to see this Amazon XPrize competition taking shape!