Listen to their inspiring discussion about ecosystem restoration, leadership, integrity and transparency.
🎧 The episode is available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast platform.
Marie-Noëlle Keijzer, CEO & Co-Founder of WeForest, leads restoration at scale: 80,000+ hectares restored and 100M+ trees supported, with a strong focus on communities, livelihoods, and long-term resilience.
She joined Alexander Watson on our podcast Beyond the Canopy.
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Start 2026 listening to inspiring ideas, insights and testimonies by actors of the restoration and conservation landscape.
Here is the English-speaking selection made by our international team!
Check out the rest of our selection in Spanish, French, and Portuguese in our article: lnkd.in/enJqYAn3
To get a comprehensive view of the deforestation in the region, you can also use various GIS data layers, including Tree Cover Loss, Deforestation Fronts, and GLAD Forest Height Change.
Monitoring, protecting, and restoring primary forest is more critical than ever to reduce future climate risks.
From 2001 to 2024, Rondônia lost 5.3 Mha of tree cover, equivalent to 28% of the 2000 tree cover area.
This deforestation is mainly due to the expansion of agriculture and livestock farming and logging, driven by the development of projects of large-scale crops and bioenergy.
We all know the Amazon Rainforest has changed a lot over the last century.
But seeing it hits differently.
Using the NICFI timeline feature on explorer.land, we can visualize exactly how deforestation has reshaped the Jacundá National Forest in Rondônia, Amazon region of Brazil.
We also wanted to share the beautiful artwork by @Tali Shaouly: La naturaleza es sabia, a delicate blend of poetry and illustrations.
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And you, what are you doing to connect the children in your life with nature?
First, Canciones para honrar la Tierra created by Grupo ecologico sierra gorda. These songs have been used in Queretaro (Mexico) schools for over 30 years to teach children about local ecosystems and global environmental challenges.
Canciones para honrar la Tierra: sierragorda.net/canciones/
Music and books are other great ways our team members are using. Among the many options we could talk about, we want to highlight a few references we personally like and we know are made with love.
We’d also like to share 2 great initiatives.
Our first very practical piece of advice is definitely to spend time outdoors with your children or the ones that surround you.
There is no better way than interacting with the wonders of nature to learn to appreciate and respect it, but also to care deeply about it and want to take care of it.
As nature lovers working to make a change and bring reasons for hope in the climate debate, we also want to sow the seeds of environmental awareness in the children around us.
We wanted to share with you the imperfect ways we use at home to make nature a full part of our own kids' education.
Tim dives into how we can cultivate "conditional optimism" to drive change, and the critical path from policy (UN Decade) to corporate action (Salesforce/Symbiosis Coalition).
Don't miss this powerful episode! ⬇️
Listen & learn more: [https://youtu.be/qIAS5oJ-0ds]
#GenerationRestoration
Humans are the most powerful ecosystem engineers on the planet, but we're doing a poor job. 💔
In the latest #BeyondTheCanopy, Tim Christophersen, VP Climate Action, Salesforce, breaks down the "relationship crisis with nature" at the root of the climate crisis. It's time to change the paradigm!
Their Christmas trees are produced entirely by producers who have signed a Fair Trees Producer’s Certificate ensuring the entire supply-chain is respectful of the environment.
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📸 Fair Trees
Fair Trees contributes to improving local living and working conditions in Georgia by offering decent wages, safety training, and climbing equipment of the highest EU standards to its employees
These cones are then sold and used to grow trees in other countries like Denmark, the biggest producer and exporter of Christmas trees in Europe.
Denmark is also the home country of Fair Trees, which, in this context, has undertaken to produce not only sustainable trees but also sustainable seeds.
Do you actually know where your Christmas tree is coming from?
The majority of seeds for Christmas tree production originate in Georgia. There, cone pickers climb pine trees up to 30 meters high and collect seeds in dangerous and rudimentary conditions.
Not really in the Christmas spirit.
It’s been a blast sharing with like-minded people and, laying the first bricks of future partnerships for nature restoration.
🔗 For those who couldn’t make it to Frankfurt, you can find the link to the “Renaturation in Bielefeld-Brönninghausen” project here explorer.land/x/project/br....
Many also visited our joint exhibition “Discover Nature - Renaturation in Bielefeld”, exploring both the project led by Green Account and how our platform explorer.land contributes to its geotransparency and visibility.
The Impact Festival may be over but the great energy, exchanges and encounters stay with us.
Together with Green Account, represented by Nina Winter-Labinsky, we hosted a Beer & Pretzels meetup on Wednesday, which has been a great chance to chat with so many inspiring people.
The urgency is gone. We have time.
Time to ask, “Do I really need this?”
Time to look at how long something will last.
Time to explore sustainable alternatives.
Time to choose quality over quantity.
Time, even, to buy nothing at all.
And for many low-margin items, it’s cheaper for retailers to send returns straight to landfills than to repair or restock them.
So it’s fair to ask: Is the money we “save” worth the cost the planet pays?
Could we turn this long shopping season into a moment of intention instead of impulse?
Cheap, short-lived products often end up in the trash within weeks.
Some estimates show up to 80% of discounted items and packaging end up in landfills quickly.
A single Black Friday week in Europe can generate over 1.2 million tons of CO₂ from transport alone.
It wasn’t a celebration. It was a warning.
Retailers later turned that chaos into a ritual.
And now that this ritual stretches across weeks, the urgency fades, while sales and environmental impacts skyrocket.
More weeks of discounts mean more production, packaging, deliveries, and more returns.
And this shift isn’t just about marketing strategy. It’s a sign of how deeply hyperconsumerism shapes our lives.
In the 1950s and 60s, Philadelphia police used “Black Friday” to complain about the chaos and overwhelming crowds at the start of the holiday shopping rush.
Let’s pause and think about it.
We initially planned to talk about Black Friday and highlight its terrible effect on the planet. But let’s be honest, promotions started weeks ago already.
Black Friday morphed into Cyber Monday into Cyber Week into Black November. A full month of promotions.
Look for the booth AB2 and pass by to say hello. We can also talk about nature based solutions, climate change or GIS geodata, if you insist. ;)
And don’t forget our Beers & Bretzels event hosted together with @Green Account tomorrow!
⏰Tuesday 26th, 5 PM, at our booth n°AB2.
Don’t miss it!
We’re at the Impact Festival, and we’re waiting for you!
Thilo Herbst and Alexander Watson are already in the starting blocks and ready for interesting conversation, inspiring encounters and new perspectives.
Let’s have a talk about local restoration projects and how you can contribute to them.
Together with host Alexander Watson, Tim, former UN Environment Expert, discusses the challenge of scaling up for the restoration movement, from policy to corporate action.
Listen to the full conversation on Youtube, Spotify, Simplecast and Apple Podcasts.
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The climate crisis isn't a carbon crisis, it's a relationship crisis.
In our last episode of the Beyond the Canopy podcast, Tim Christophersen, VP of Climate Action at Salesforce and author of Generation Restoration shares with us his visions on the climate crisis.
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