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2019 in Review
2019 was an exceptional year. BioIntegrity's work to change awareness on the value of ecosystems and connect people to the most globally-beneficial climate solutions had many positive manifestations. Click for a timeline of milestones! |
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5 Year Impact Report!
12/13/19. We are thrilled to get this out the door. With over 265,000 acres of old growth tropical forests protected, our supporters are truly making the world a better place.
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#ChrisforBio Success
10/31/19. BioIntegrity's informal 16 week email series, ChrisforBio, on the importance of protecting the Amazon, has raised funds to protect more than 50 square miles of old growth Peruvian forests. That's an area bigger than San Francisco! Click for a video report. |
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Think (& Act) Biospherically
10/11/19 -- In the wake of the Amazon fires, Austin radio favorite Kevin Connor interviews BioIntegrity founder Chris Searles about the best ways to move forward. Listen here! Check out more on "Biospheric Climate Solutions" in this BioIntegrity newsletter. |
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+250,000 Acres Protected!
9/13/19. With matching donations BioIntegrity supporters have now protected more than 250,000 acres of old growth tropical forests around the world. Thanks so much to our #1 partner Rainforest Trust and our outstanding donors. Learn more / see an animated Gif of our impacts! |
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BioIntegrity founder, Chris Searles, on the #AmazonFires
8/27 & 9/12/19. In response to the international uproar over the fires in the Amazon, our founder published a blog and video on how we got here, where we are, and how you can help, and appeared on FOX7Austin, KXAN NEWS Austin and at the University of Texas at Austin's Tereza Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies. |
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Bigger Than Orlando... By A Lot
6/19/19. With matching donations, BioIntegrity donors have now protected more than 360 square miles of old growth tropical forests. That's bigger than all 5 NYC boroughs, 7.7X bigger than San Francisco, 3.1X bigger than Orlando, FL. Enlarge "Forests Protected" (image) to see more comparisons. ¡Thanks Everybody! |
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Strings In The Park #2
On 6/2/19 KUTX, HEB Central Market, and BioIntegrity.net/Solutions presented "Strings In The Park with Kevin Russell (Shinyribs, The Gourds)." This time, our Concert for a Healthier Planet brought 19 sponsors, 11 musicians, and around 1,000 people together to hear Will Taylor's arrangements of Kevin's original songs. Check out Strings' Instagram or visit the website for more. Thanks to everyone! Next event coming soon! |
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+200,000 Acres Protected
1/1/19. With matching donations BioIntegrity supporters have now protected more than 200,000 acres of old growth tropical forests around the world. Thanks so much to our #1 partner Rainforest Trust and our outstanding donors. Some of the environmental benefits of these protections include:
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Strings In The Park #1
11/4/18. Our first-ever, BioIntegrity-produced, free, public concert was a blast! Our goal with these events is to promote local culture, green spaces, community engagement, and global environmental solutions. Artists Will Taylor and Guy Forsyth performed for about 500 people with the Strings Attached orchestra. Check out photos or visit the website for more. Thanks to all our sponsors and attendees. Next event coming soon! |
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+150,000 Acres Protected
8/15/18. We Did It. Special Thanks to our 150k Donors: Aaron, Jeff, Marc, Jody, Kazel, Kymberly, Linda, and Deborah, who pushed us over the top! • 30+ Million trees protected • 135k+ tons annual CO2 sequestration protected • 200+ Indigenous communities protected • 18k+ plant and animal species protected And more. Learn more here. |
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Leading Us Out of the Climate Challenge
5/25/18. Our Spring 2018 email series supporters protected approximately 28 square miles of Earth's most productive ecosystems, that's an area bigger than Manhattan! Check out the slides here or read the series wrap-up email to see what our donors are accomplishing. |
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Earth Month 2018
5/1/18. Every month is Earth Month at BioIntegrity, but April is special. We had a ball in Austin on Earth Day with collaborator Giulia, sponsor Gretchen, 8 awesome songwriters, 1 great soundman, and tons of friends and supporters at David & Us. Founder Chris also gave a presentation at First Baptist Church and keynoted St. Stephen's Episcopal School's excellent Earth Day celebration. Students at St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Wimberley conducted a BioIntegrity fundraiser for tropical forests. Funds raised from these events, including matching donations, will protect well over 10,000 acres of last, intact, old growth forests in the Amazon and Indonesia; roughly 16 square miles of Earth's most productive life support systems, about 6% the size of Austin, TX! |
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BioIntegrity Sweethearts
2/14/18. Bigger than Ever. We love celebrating our most outstanding contributors. For Valentine's 2018 our newsletter celebrated over 25 givers who are helping to protect Earth's climate and climate system, global life support services and biodiversity, indigenous peoples and global ecological security, by protecting old growth tropical forests around the world. |
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Annual Impacts Report, 2017
1/26/18. 131,473 acres protected so far! BioIntegrity got started in Dec. 2014. Today, a little more than three years later, we are thrilled to release our 2nd Annual Ecological Impacts report. In this downloadable PDF you'll find: numerous metrics, exuberant visuals, a letter from our founder, testimonials from donors, a map of locations we've helped protect, and more. Earth-sized-Thanks to all of our supporters: Biotic Heroes! | ||
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Tom & Us
We had a GREAT NIGHT, 12/28/17 -- Big Thanks to Everyone who supported this Austin-unique fun-raiser for the Amazon, Earth's life support systems, indigenous peoples, global biodiversity, and our climate. Extra Extra thanks to our performers Matt Hubbard, Noëlle Hampton, David Pulkingham, William Harries Graham, Giulia Millanta, Johnny Goudie, Lonnie Trevino, Jr., Gabe Rhodes, Andre Moran, Gretchen Lynn, Thaïs Perkins, Darin Murphy, and Chris Searles, and to Giulia Millanta (creator), Gretchen Lynn Janzow (sponsor), One2One (venue), and Rainforest Trust (nonprofit partner). See a photo gallery from the event here, check out metrics of our combined impacts in images to the right! Values shown include donation matches. Learn more about Tom & Us here. |
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With Matching Donations...
11/01/17. We are thrilled to announce: our donors' total gifts, combined with matching donations, are now protecting more than 100,000 acres of old growth tropical forests around the world! These forests eliminate more greenhouse gas emissions per year than $500M worth of rooftop solar, protect Earth's greatest concentrations of biodiversity, produce oxygen / freshwater / food, moderate Earth's weather cycles / moisture cycles / heat absorption / trade winds / temperature, safely store over 30 million tons of Carbon Dioxide, and more! |
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Fun...Raisers
9/29/17. We enjoyed two fundraising events in August and September. BioIntegrity Business Partner Tavern on Main partnered with Tito's Vodka to protect 295 acres of old growth forests in Cameroon by diverting a month of proceeds from rainforest-themed drinks. BioIntegrity advocate Giulia Millanta created and convened Neil & Us with support from Bio Business Partner Gretchen Lynn Janzow and our friends at the Lemon Lounge. This mini concert featured nine of Austin's finest songwriters. Click the PDF icons to the right to view the Impacts Reports from each of these wonderful events! |
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Austin, TX & Online Presentations
8/3/17. In July Chris delivered Global Solutions to Global Problems at the City of Austin TX's Nature in the City series, Putting Carbon Where It Belongs to 350Austin, and How to Win on Climate Change & The Extinction Crisis to the Ecolonomics Action Team. Check out the Ecolonomics 2.5 hour webinar here. With matching gifts, donations in July will protect +1,500 acres of old growth tropical forests in Cameroon and Peru! |
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"As Big As Manhattan"
6/15/17. 14,330 acres protected! We are so grateful to our Spring supporters. Their donations to protect undisturbed, old growth tropical forests in South America, West Africa, and South Central Asia will reduce as much or more carbon dioxide pollution as $150 million worth of rooftop solar, protect critically threatened biodiversity, and much, much more. Click the link to view our Spring Contributor Impacts Report. |
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Presentations
5/1/17. April was Awesome. Thanks everyone who came out to support our Earth Day events. We had a ball celebrating at Tavern on Main, and educating at St. Stephen's Episcopal School and Earth Day Austin. Here is video of Chris' talk on Forests and Climate Change from his presentation with Mayor Frank Cooksey. Here is video of Chris' talk "Putting Carbon Where It Belongs", part Austin Climate Justice Week 2017 (starts 16:15). We also presented our first ever Evening with BioIntegrity at the Alamo Drafthouse. It was SRO! Big thanks to our friends, musicians Kevin Galloway, Brad Houser, Matt Hubbard, Jan Flemming and Justin Stewart, for their support at Tavern on Main. Looking forward to next year! |
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3 Projects Funded
3/30/17. Thank you, donors! In 2017, biointegrity donors have helped fund protection of:
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2016 Impacts Report
2/5/17. In the last two years BioIntegrity donors have helped fund the protection of more than 70,000 acres of old growth tropical forests around the world. The positive impacts are astounding. View the report by clicking the link below. |
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Holiday Cards
12/2016. We opened our first ever Christmas season card store this year, sending a lot of love across the US and protecting over 1,000 acres in the Amazon, the Congo, the Himalayas, and Papua New Guinea! |
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55,555 Acres Protected
11/20/16. Since February of 2015 our donors have helped protect roughly 85 square miles of tropical forests around the world -- an area nearly twice the size of San Francisco. These donations are protecting thousands of threatened species and keeping about 18,000,000 tons greenhouse gasses out of the atmosphere. |
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"The Indigenous Issue"
10/22/16. BioIntegrity founder Chris Searles edited this month's issue of AllCreation.org, which features important works from Vance Blackfox (Cherokee), Heid E. Erdich & Jonathan Thunder (Ojibway), Rev. Priscilla Austin (ELCA), Amie Stone King (Cooperative Baptist), Philip Estes, and Chris. All recommended! |
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"12 Weeks of Solutions" Begins
10/14/16. BioIntegrity founder Chris Searles started sharing a series of weekly synopses covering The World's Biggest Environmental Solution. "Tropical Forests are Earth's most systemically significant ecosystems. Their restoration is our best shot at winning our global warming and biodiversity crises. Over the next 12 weeks I'll tell you why it's worth the effort to radically expand the non-profit sectors already protecting and restoring tropical forests, today." (Chris) Read the invitation email. Watch YouTube shorts. Read the white paper. View the Facebook notes. |
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World Elephant Day 2016 Success
8/15/16. Thanks to our supporter Julie for gathering friends and family on this campaign. In addition to helping protect Africa's last forest elephants and an enormous amount of threatened biodiversity, Julie's friend/family donations will help keep more than 138,000 tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere -- the equivalent of taking 28,000+ cars off the road. |
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Preschoolers: Behave Better, Develop Faster & Learn More in Nature
7/22/16. Recently BioIntegrity founder Chris Searles learned that a religious preschool is moving their education outdoors. Why? Check out Chris's thoughts on this plus 14 related pieces in the July issue of AllCreation.org. |
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And now, we Tumbl
6/1/16. BioIntegrity has a Tumblr. Check out the new and very beautiful site, curated by intern extraordinaire Katie Knight: biointegrity.tumblr.com. |
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More than 50,000 acres protected
5/20/16. 50,000! We are thrilled to announce our donors, matchers and partners have now protected more than 50,000 acres of old growth tropical forests in: Peru, Colombia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the most productive ecosystems on Earth. Thank You! More to come. |
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Big Blog
4/22/16. "The opportunity before us now is big enough to turn the ship on today's climate and biodiversity crises within 10 to 20 years." Check out "Earth Day is Global Citizen Day" from our founder. |
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Earth Day / Earth Month Awesomeness
April, 2016 Austin, Tx. & Buda, Tx. Via a series of fundraisers at First Baptist Church of Austin, Texas Alliance for Retired Americans, The Democratic Socialists of Austin, Tavern on Main, and Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, Austin, BioIntegrity donors protected more than 9,300 acres of old growth tropical rainforests in Papua New Guinea, Sumatra, and the Congo. Our Earth Day Weekend event at Tavern on Main was a blast, featuring samples from seven local breweries and Miller Lite, and special live performances from 11 solo artists and bands, including: Kevin Galloway, Mayeux and Broussard, Lew Card, and Bukka Allen. |
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AllCreation.org
4/22/16 Austin, Tx. As part of this year's Earth Day celebrations, we proudly announce the launch of AllCreation.org, "a living archive of Faith and spiritual practice views on biodiversity and today's environmental challenges." The site is managed by BioIntegrity founder Chris Searles and UCC Reverend Tom VandeStadt. |
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BioIntegrity Sweethearts
2/14/16 Austin, Tx. For Valentine's 2016 our newsletter featured some of our most supportive givers in a successful campaign to help increase long term protections of the indigenous people, species, and pristine forests of Papua New Guinea. |
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#ParisClimateAccord
12/14/15 Buda, Tx. The world's first-ever, global humanitarian accord to protect our future and the future of all living things in our biosphere was unanimously approved at the COP21 in Paris, France, on Saturday 12/12/15. The following day BioIntegrity founder, Chris Searles, released this newsletter celebrating the event and highlighting the "four best results" of this historic accord. From the newsletter: Let's all take a moment to be optimistic and envision what life in 2020, 2050, 2100, and beyond will be like if we invest in caring for others and acting on our care. |
End of 2015 newsletter
11/19/15 Austin, TX. Our final newsletter of the year, "Best & Biggest Environmental Impact -- of Your Life" was released today, featuring an exceptionally economically efficient solution to today's global extinction and climate crises.
Our recommended project protects an undisturbed, forest ecosystem in Central Africa. This place is literally millions and millions of years old, has an enormous influence on our climate/oxygen/pollination/and precipitation systems, contains a Huge array of threatened biodiversity, and is one of the most climate-critical forests on earth today. A $5 donation helps protect all of the above and offsets your carbon footprint for life. Click here to read the full newsletter. So far, BioIntegrity donors have helped to protect more than 30,000 acres of bio-critical and climate-critical ecosystems around the world. Contact us with questions. |
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