HERE'S OUR BIGGEST NEWS
2024
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The NorthWest Projects: 2024
Strategic Watering to prevent fire. We got 6 highly unlikely rains, cooled the whole region, cut wildfires 77%, and more. Check out:
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The SouthWest Projects: 2024
Strategic Watering to prevent fire. We got 18 unlikely rains, helped bring in "the best monsoons we've had in 20 years" during the hottest summer in history, and more. Check out:
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Reversing Drought in Central Texas
Strategic Sponging to prevent drought. March of 2024 felt dangerous in Central Texas. The air from the south was particularly dry. Normal rainfall was not coming. We'd just exited weeks of catastrophic drought. Heat records were being met and exceeded. We needed a way to get through the summer. So in April Chris Searles began "#200Trees" (now called "Securing Forests") a few miles southwest of Austin. Securing Forests puts rich, durable soil back onto the land where it's most effective at retaining, circulating and building moisture circulation: just past the rootball area of big trees. The overall goal is to put enough below-ground biology back onto dry and eroded landscapes that below-ground microorganisms and the tree's root systems can retain, circulate and summon atmospheric moisture as needed, year-round. Chris figured if he could install at least 200 sponges, in his strategic location, the neighborhood and its downwind region would be capable of achieving a moist Summer, rather than returning to a catastrophic drought state. Chris installed 450 "tree sponges", early April to mid-May. Most of the greater region ended up getting above average rainfall in May and July, staying out of drought into late August, and having its best total rain accumulation out of the last four years. |
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Bringing Rain to Austin, June 10
Rainmaking with Trees. Unfortunately these videos are lost in Facebook Live for now. |
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Bringing Rain to Austin, May 28
Rainmaking with Trees. |
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Securing Forests: The BCNA Pilot
Strategic Sponging to prevent drought. As a response to the extreme conditions we found ourselves in in Central Texas by March of 2024, Chris began piloting our sponge initiative at scale and had ENORMOUS success bringing hydration back to this parched lands. Thanks so much to our family, neighbors and friends in Big Country, near Austin and Dripping Springs, Texas.
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Bringing Rain to Austin, March 8
Rainmaking with Trees. On March 5 Chris announced he would try and make it rain on SXSW 2024. It happened. Here is a quick synopsis of those events and two videos on the sudden rains of 3/8/24. |
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Bringing Rain to Austin, Feb. 16
Rainmaking with Trees. Here are a bunch of videos from 2/16/24. |
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G.I.F.T. FEST II
Festival for everyone. We're invested in Kinship as the best model for human progress on Earth. Our second G.I.F.T. FEST (Grow. Inspire. Feed. Teach.) explored that theme again broadly and was a ball! We presented monthly talks, classes and "work" days with tacos and beer, January through April 2024, on making the future better together. Featured guests included the Dr. Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón (National Wildlife Federation), noted author / historically-significant musician, Rev. Jimi Calhoun, Texas legend Kirby Fry, and BioIntegrity's founder/director. Thanks so much to our sponsors, Strangeland Brewery, Genuine Joe's Coffee, and Episcopal Church of the Resurrection, our musicians, Norm & Ollie, and our attendees. Don't miss the G.I.F.T. Fest Theme Song. Visit GiftFest.org for class videos and more. |
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Rainmaking Notes: 2023 (Incomplete)
Strategic Watering + Rainmaking with Trees. 2023 was a breakthrough year. Chris was able to bring rains to South and Central Texas multiple times, helping to break the catastrophic Summer/Fall droughts of that year and eliminate forecasted extremes. These notes are incomplete. Please check back. |
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Rainmaking Notes: 2022 (Complete)
Notes, Tips, Breakthroughs Rainmaking with Trees. In 2020 Chris Searles began experimenting with "rainmaking with trees" and had immediate success in Austin, TX. In 2022 he started working on it full-time and took it on the road to Missouri and Northern California. This Google doc shows synopses of his 25 rainmaking experiments/projects conducted that year. It also explains what he's doing in simple terms.
Breaking California's Relentless Drought Cycle Strategic Watering. Notably, Chris' successes helped end California's worst three years of drought and longest five years of fire seasons in known history. His first regional experiment in another, his mid-northern California forests got unlikely rains, starting September 18. There were no new, large-fire ignitions after that. During the previous California lost 10s to 100s of thousands of acres to wildfire through November even into the next year. |
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An Introduction to Rainmaking with Trees
Introducing Rainmaking with Trees. 1/12/24. In 2020, Chris Searles, founder/director at BioIntegrity, began experimenting with the science on how trees and forests generate, attract and circulate rain. By 2024 he had completed more than 50 projects in 5 distinct regions of the USA, and achieved an +85% success rate rehydrating forests "to bring rain" in these various climes. With this historic announcement BioIntegrity hopes to identity not just how to bring rainfall back to our lands today, but where the better future begins for Civilization today; in wilderness, relationships with Earth's other species, and careful, strategic rehydration. We hope you'll watch and share this simple, scientific video. |
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2023
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2023 Global Impacts Report
+375,000 acres protected! Unfortunately RainforestTrust.org/ has stopped sharing our donors' impact information with us, despite all we've done for them at no cost. It's strange and terribly disappointing. But, in our 9 years of promoting their excellent projects -- the BioIntegrity community has collectively protected at least 375,000 acres of old growth tropical forests around the world! Thank you older, kinder RainforestTrust.org. Hope to reunite with you one day. Thank you, BioIntegrity community and partners-many -- Let's keep going! These acres contain at least:
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The Cool Austin Challenge
DECIDUOUS and CONIFER TREES are the most impactful resource we have for generating and circulating cool, moist air over our landscapes during heat waves. To rehydrate trees: don't flood, DRIP & SATURATE. More in the video, our most popular yet. SCIENCE BEHIND THIS PRESENTATION |
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Keep Austin Lush Challenge
Landscapes are eroding all over the world, it's always a good time to restore sponge to the soil, especially at the bases of our biggest trees. This video explains why and how. "Build a little ecosystem", a micro-bio-rich garden just for your tree's roots, to increase moisture resources below ground, year-round. Restore greenness to your trees and other vegetation and increase their ability to manage weather extremes and prevent drought and wildfire conditions from occurring. "Regrow the sponge." |
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Reversing Drought w/ Biosphere Care
"This is how WE do it." : Enrich LocalLandscapes. Learn and do these things for climate stability, drought reversal, biodiversity, greener plants, and your own health. |
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Sharing Beliefs
AllCreation.org continues to bring people from all walks of religious- and spiritual practice-life together to explore the meaning of Creation Care and Environmental Stewardship from biodiversity-centric point of view. 2023 featured two bilingual collections, edited by Rev. Dr. Neddy Astudillo. Enjoy: |
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Pathways of Teshuvah (podcast)
Inspired by the breakthrough academic work, Pathways of Teshuvah: Repentance, Return, and Reconciliation Across Time and Place (Chananiah, 2022) this podcast with Dr. Pesach Chananiah (author) and Mr. Marcus Kar (urban youth farming leader), hosted by Chris Searles (BioIntegrity.net) is about accessing our positive potential through reconnection to nature. "Highly-evolved people who care" (commenter) discussing
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Called to CARE (the conversations)
This podcast series explores the question, what is like to put care at the center of your identity? through discussions with faith leaders in humanitarianism and environmental stewardship. Watch:
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2022
strong BIOSPHERE = good WEATHER
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Nothing is more important than the human life-support system. This synopsis connects you to the most necessary and impactful climate solution priority. Learn more.
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2022 Global Impacts Report
Our globally-strategic conservation is protecting Earth's Most Valuable Assets by investing in Indigenous- and community-based protection of Tropical Forests. So far:
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Envisioning a Better Future
The Winter Solstice edition of AllCreation.org, entitled, Envisioning Transformation: People, Institutions, Biosphere. What kind of future do we want to share? examines the notion of coming together to intentionally transform our entities, ideas, economics, practices, and cultures so they are right, realistic and inclusive for all living beings. Check out the content. |
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Pathways of Teshuvah (the paper)
We are very proud to have published this exceptional, academic work on AllCreation.org, authored by community leader, Dr. Pesach Chananiah. This piece is the keynote for "Envisioning a Better Future" (above). Read it here. |
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G.I.F.T. FEST #1, "A new kind of community event"
We created and co-produced the first ever GIFT Fest with our friends and partners at The G.I.F.T. Community Garden in Austin, TX, our home base. The event featured a public conversation on Kinship and Care, a permaculture class, lots of outdoor food, and numerous live music performances by local, legendary and unlikely guests. Visit GiftFest.org for more info. |
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True North
“It is time to re-define Wealth, Beauty, Success, Innovation, Achievement, Security and Advancement. Our bodies, our investments, our technologies, our schools of thought... EVERYTHING WE HAVE depends on Biosphere Earth, first. How about rather than trying to beat Nature, we embrace a more realistic standard: Is it good or bad for our ONLY life-support system?" Read this and other blogs by BioIntegrity director, Chris Searles -- on Heart math, re-humanizing ourselves and more, here. |
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Harrison Aron and K'Aron Community Farm
Young leader, Harrison Aron, contacted us for support for his permaculture farm outside of Homa Bay, Kenya, last year. After months of observation, we funded the plowing of a new acre. Since then, our community has funded: seeds, rainwater tanks, irrigation pipes, fencing, garden boots, and tools. We have each been impressed by the K'Aron Community Farm Team, helping local people regeneratively and reduce drought conditions where it matters most for global climate and biodiversity. |
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How to Reverse Drought
Regrowing and Expanding Native Land-sponge is our most locally-effective way to stop and reverse extreme weather and biodiversity loss. It also gives us the opportunity to integrate local food production, drought/flood/fire protection and resilience, wildlife restoration, deeper sense of self-identity, and regenerative economics, from local to global scales. Check out this simple series: |
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Restoring Connective Tissue How can we restore healthy relationships with each other, Earth's biodiversity, and our shared future? ... In this issue of AllCreation.org, lead-edited by Tom VandeStadt and featuring interviews with Darcia Narvaez, kinship pioneer, Jeremy Lent ("one of the greatest thinkers of our time"), Nick Loffree (noted chi-gong teacher), and Christina Conklin (artist/author), we are highlighting people seeking to restore balance and harmony amongst all who are connected. Check out the content. |
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Earth Day Keynote
As part of the Austin Community College Honors Program and Office of Sustainability's Earth Week celebrations 2022, Chris Searles, director of BioIntegrity, presented the keynote lecture, What Do We Do Now?: Moving Towards a New Economics of Biospheric Reformation on Earth Day. In it he shares fundamentals from The Value of Biosphere Earth, including a new take on the global climate stabilization solution, as well as content regarding human identity and domination over Nature. |
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Dominionism?
In this breakthrough collection from our project AllCreation.org, Dominionism: Exploring Religious Relationships with Other Life, guest editor Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon invites celebrated theologian, Dr. Norman Wirzba and a host of multi-generational Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Unitarian leaders to share their Faith-based insights on the meaning of Genesis 1:26 today. Check out the collection. |
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THE BIOSPHERIC CLIMATE SOLUTION
The Biospheric Climate Solution is based on maximizing the benefits of four ecological realities:
More in these research briefs. |
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Shmita now & shmita LiveWe are so thrilled to have gotten to work with Yaira Robinson, guest editor for AllCreation's "Shmita Now", Winter Solstice 2021. The collection features an outstanding group of Jewish environmental thought leaders. Check out the whole issue: Shmita Now. And, on Tuesday, March 1st, 2022, we produced "Shmita Live," a fun hour of conservation with numerous of these contributors.
Watch Shmita Live here. |
2021
The Value of Biosphere EarthThere's just no way around it: "the environment" is our Life-Support System. Earth's life and living ecosystems? Our Life-Support System. This series summarizes the science on the identity, construction, and value of Earth's other life to humans today and our future.
Check out the science, the email, and the articles. |
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Biospheric POV
We aim to help change awareness and action this year by beginning a new focus on the biosphere, Earth's planetary life-support system for human life. Here are some of the new ideas. |
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Exploring Sacred Relationships w/ Earth's Other Life
On the Fall Equinox, 2021, we published Exploring Sacred Relationship on AllCreation.org thanks to a collaboration with guest editor, Vance Blackfox. Vance is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, an Indigenous-Christian theologian and an outstanding leader in reconciliation. This collection shares 12 pieces exploring the Native American sense of Sacred Relationship with Earth's other living creatures. We are honored and grateful to feature original works by Vance and contributors Kim Smith, Janine Yazzie, Amber Morning Star Byars, and Isabell Retamoza. Check out the collection. |
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Launching: The Bridge
"A podcast about how to get to the world we really want." The Bridge is a collaboration between BioIntegrity founder/director, Chris Searles, and Zen priest/psychotherapist, Jared Michaels. In these interviews Jared and Chris talk with thought leaders in mental health, environmental science, Tibetan Buddhism, Indigenous rights, urban farming, and more. They ask each guest: What does the future look like if we get it right? The Bridge collects solutions. Check out the podcast: thebridge.transistor.fm. |
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BioIntegrity Podcasts... Are going gangbusters. A new project, we're asking the question, "What's the optimal environmental solution?" So far we've published interviews with Mary DeJong (Waymarkers), Rev. Louis Tillman, Vance Blackfox (Other+Wise), Rev. Matt Syrdal, psychotherapist Jared Michaels, author Paul Bogard, author Ragan Sutterfield and BioIntegrity's Chris Searles. Coming soon, interviews with: Prof. Deborah Lawrence, psychotherapist Leia Seigen Shinraku, Sheri Herndon (Indymedia), Daniel Lavelle (Survival International), Randy Jewart (Resolution Gardens), psychotherapist Travis Ben Robinson, and more. Sign up for notifications. |
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Awakening to a New Future
Earth's Life-Support System is in immediate jeopardy of collapse today. This presentation, given on Indigenous Peoples' Day 2021, shares a new way of thinking about how to address and reverse today's greatest societal challenges. |
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2020
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2020, the year in reviewTake a moment and read this letter and report from our founder / ceo, Chris Searles, on the outcomes of BioIntegrity's activities and projects in 2020. Learn about AllCreation, Earth Day, Strings in the Park, our globally-strategic conservation impacts, and more. Read letter.
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Building a Brighter Future
This presentation on the value of intact, wild ecosystems globally and locally, was given at the City of Austin's Fall 2020 Roots and Wings Festival. Download the PDF referred to in the video here: https://tinyurl.com/bioroots2020. |
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First Baptist's Global Impacts Report (2020) BioIntegrity has advised First Baptist Church and its members to focus on supporting the nonprofits Rainforest Trust and Plant With Purpose, since 2015. Our report shows how this strategy has delivered exceptional overall value to stopping and reversing global environmental challenges. +6 million trees saved! +2,200 trees planted! And more. Where it matters most. Click to read the report on FBC's website or in our BioIntegrity pdf. |
2019
2019 in Review2019 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 here for a timeline of milestones!
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5-Year GLOBAL Impacts Report12/13/19. 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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Success, YES!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 homemade video report.
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Think Biospherically10/11/19 -- 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.
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Chris Searles on the Amazon's Catastrophic Fires
August/September, 2019. 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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Almost as BIG as Dallas
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, 94% of Dallas, TX. ¡Thanks Everybody! |
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Strings In The Park #2On 6/2/19 KUTX, HEB Central Market, and BioIntegrity presented Strings In The Park with Kevin Russell (Shinyribs, The Gourds). This Concert for a Healthier Planet brought 19 sponsors, 11 musicians, and around 1,000 people together to hear Will Taylor's custom string arrangements of Kevin's original songs. Check out Strings' Instagram or website for more. Thanks to everyone! Especially Rebecca McDonald and Alice Spencer. |
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yes-yes-y'all, +200,000!!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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2018
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Strings In The Park #111/4/18. 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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Protecting Forests to Protect the Future
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. |
Earth Month 20185/1/18. Every month is Earth Month at BioIntegrity, but April is special. We had a ball in Austin on Earth Day with collaborator Giulia Millanta, sponsor Gretchen Janzow, 8 awesome songwriters, 1 great sound tech, 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 the sum of these events, including matching donations, will protect well over 10,000 acres of intact, old growth forests in the Amazon and in 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 20182/14/18. 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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2017
GLOBAL Impacts Report 2017131,473 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 & UsWe 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.
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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...Raisers9/29/17. 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 image to view Impact Reports from each of these wonderful events. Thanks to all!
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IN-PERSON & Online8/3/17. 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 Manhattan6/15/17. 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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EARTH MONTH 20175/1/17. 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! Here is the full presentation, "How to Win on Climate Change and the Species Extinction Crisis."
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!!!
4/30/17. Thank you, donors! In 2017, biointegrity donors have helped fund protection of:
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2016
2016 global Impacts ReportIn 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.
Biointegrity 2016 Impacts Report |
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Holiday Cards12/2016. 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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55,55511/20/16. Since February of 2015 our donors have helped protect roughly 55,555 acres (85 square miles) of old growth 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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ALLCREATION'S Indigenous COLLECTION10/22/16. This month's issue of AllCreation.org features new and important works from Vance Blackfox (Cherokee), Heid E. Erdich & Jonathan Thunder (Ojibway), Rev. Priscilla Austin (ELCA), Amie Stone King (Cooperative Baptist), and Philip Estes on what it means to be Indigenous today, and/or to find God in the wild.
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12 Weeks of Solutions10/14/16. 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)
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World Elephant Day 20168/15/16. 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 Learn/behave/feel best outdoors7/22/16. Recently BioIntegrity founder Chris Searles learned that a religious preschool is moving their education outdoors. Why? Check out some thoughts on this plus 14 related pieces in the July issue of AllCreation.org.
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And now, we Tumbl6/1/16. 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 protected5/20/16. 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 Blog4/22/16. "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 Month 2016!!!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: Jeremy Nail, Kevin Galloway, Mayeux and Broussard, Lew Card, Bukka Allen, Brian Stadefer, Bret Engel, and more. Such a blast, thanks everyone! Extra special thanks to the amazing Julie Renfro. |
AllCreation.org begins4/22/16 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 20162/14/16 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. |
2015
the roi of caring12/14/15 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.
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Lomami11/19/15 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. |
+5,000,000 TONS CO2 KEPT OUT10/1/15 Austin, TX. We are thrilled to report our donors have helped protect more than five million tons of biomass stored CO2 from atmospheric release. Our donors' support of globally strategic ecosystem conservation in Colombia, Peru and Sumatra has thus far resulted in a global emissions reduction roughly equivalent to reducing New York City's annual carbon footprint by one entire month. Thank you Biotic Heroes! See a visualization of NYC's carbon footprint via this excellent video by CarbonVisuals.com.
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1ST NEWSLETTER,
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OUR FIRST MILESTONE6/22/15 Austin, TX. BioIntegrity donors have now helped protect more than 15,000 acres of the world’s most valuable ecosystems — roughly 23 square miles, an area larger than the city of Pasadena, CA. And:
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