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The Biospheric Climate SolutionNothing 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: 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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2022: Conservation Impacts
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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2022: CALLED TO CARE
As part of GIFT Fest 2022 we created and presented our first-ever Called to Care public conversation. Our gathering featured a distinguished, multi-cultural panel and enthusiastic audience, discussing Care as identity. Watch the full event video here. |
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2022: GIFT FEST!
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 free permaculture class, lots of outdoor food, a public conversation on Kinship and Care, and numerous live music performances by both legendary and unlikely special guests. Visit GiftFest.org for more info. |
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2022: 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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2022: Introducing 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, now helping feed +500 local people regeneratively, eliminate malnutrition, and reduce drought conditions where it matters most for global climate and biodiversity. More to come! |
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2022: 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: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. |
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2022: 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, we are highlighting people seeking to restore balance and harmony amongst all who are connected. Check out the content. |
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2022: 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 and Biospheric Climate Solution research as well as content regarding human identity and domination over Nature. |
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2022: Dominionism: Exploring Religious Relationships with Other Life
In this breakthrough collection, from our project AllCreation.org, guest editor Rev. Dr. Dan De Leon invites celebrated author/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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2022: THE BIOSPHERIC CLIMATE SOLUTION
(Also at top of this page) The Biospheric Climate Solution is based on maximizing the benefits of four ecological realities: 1) Local moisture circulation, 2) Global rainfall management, 3) Global-greenhouse emissions containment, and 4) Local to global cooling -- all attainable thru wilderness protection and regrowth. More in these research briefs. |
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2022: 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.
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2021: Awakening to a New FutureEarth's Life-Support System is in immediate jeopardy of collapse today. Given on Indigenous Peoples' Day 2021, this presentation shares a new way of thinking about how to address and reverse today's greatest societal challenges. Watch a 1-minute trailer here. Watch the whole presentation on YouTube or Facebook. |
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2021: The Value of Biosphere Earth (series)There'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 and the climate today. Check out the science, the email, the articles, and the podcasts.
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2021: EXPLORING THE NATIVE AMERICAN SENSE OF "SACRED RELATIONSHIP"
On the Fall Equinox, 2021, we published Exploring Sacred Relationship on AllCreation.org. We are thrilled to have collaborated with guest editor, Vance Blackfox, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, an Indigenous theologian, and an outstanding reconciliation leader. Vance assembled 12 pieces on this theme, exploring the Native American sense of Sacred Relationship with Earth's other living creatures. Check out the whole collection here. |
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2021: 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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HELP EDIT, "THE VALUE OF BIOSPHERE EARTH"This new paper aims to change the way we think about reality and inspire the world's wealth holders to invest in rescuing Earth's biodiversity, ecosystems, and wildernesses. Click here to read and download the paper! 🙏
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2021: 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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2021: NEW VISIONWe aim to help change awareness and action this year. Here are some of the new ideas. Stay tuned!
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2020 AccomplishmentsTake 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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2020: First Baptist Church Austin - Global Environmental Impacts ReportBioIntegrity has advised First Baptist 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.
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2020: Alice Spencer mini-concertsIn light of the quarantine and in celebration of the 50th Earth Day, BioIntegrity founder Chris Searles and his wife Alice Spencer welcomed fans into their home for a series of mini-concerts featuring Alice's original music. This fundraiser was a great success, and really fun to do. Special thanks to Brian Cates for audio/video. Check out the series on our events page, YouTube, or Facebook.
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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 for a timeline of milestones!
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2019: Our 5-Year 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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2019: #ChrisforBio Success10/31/19. 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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2019: Think (& Act) 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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2019: YES! +250,000 Acres Protected9/13/19. 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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2019: BioIntegrity founder, Chris Searles, on the #AmazonFires8/27 & 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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2019: A Lot Bigger Than Orlando...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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2019: Strings In The Park #2On 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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2019: YES! +200,000 Acres Protected1/1/19. 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: 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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2018: YES! +150,000 Acres Protected8/15/18. 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 Challenge5/25/18. 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 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, 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 Sweethearts2/14/18. 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 & 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. 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...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 PDFs to view Impact Reports from each of these wonderful events!
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Austin, TX & Online Presentations8/3/17. 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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Presentations5/1/17. 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 Funded3/30/17. Thank you, donors! In 2017, biointegrity donors have helped fund protection of:
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2016 Impacts Report2/5/17. 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.
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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55,555 Acres Protected11/20/16. 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" Begins10/14/16. 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 2016 Success8/15/16. 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, Learn, Develop Better in Nature7/22/16. 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 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 Day / Earth Month AwesomenessApril, 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. |
AllCreation.org4/22/16 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 Sweethearts2/14/16 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. |
#ParisClimateAccord12/14/15 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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END OF 2015 NEWSLETTER11/19/15 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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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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