Michael Raimondo
Green Renaissance
Sharing ideas and inspiring change
Virus affecting the business, lockdown and food
- Not working with/for corporates anymore
- authenticity
- passion projects and funding
Connected in our humanity and nature
- Working in Faroe Islands, New Zealand
- working at home in South Africa
- future plans
Carbon offsetting travel and SpekBoom
African Parks, Peace Parks Foundation
Following and focus
- Coronavirus situation South Africa
- food security
- community effort
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FILMS AND ARTICLES DISCUSSED
If you, like us, feel a deep connection to wild places, then the current Covid-19 restrictions which are limiting access to the outdoors, is hitting hard.
But maybe there is a silver lining? We hope that what will emerge over the coming weeks is a collective and rekindled realisation that we are all interconnected with nature. It we don’t take care of nature, then we can’t take care of ourselves.
Right now she is calling us to reconnect, but will we answer her call?
South African Tourism have launched a carbon offsetting initiative to create awareness about the need to reduce the tourism industry’s carbon footprint.
They say the tourism industry needs to be planting millions of Spekboom immediately to offset carbon emissions.
“In Scandinavia, there are projects aimed at shaming people who don’t offset the carbon emissions they cause when travelling,”
The Peace Parks dream is to re-establish, renew and preserve large functional ecosystems that transcend man-made boundaries
– thereby protecting and regenerating natural and cultural heritage vital to enabling and sustaining a harmonious future for man and the natural world.
The creative project of a couple from South Africa, Green Renaissance works to spread positive stories that reflect the wonder of the world.
With the goal of sharing ideas and inspiring change, Green Renaissance produces gorgeous short films that are posted online and available for anyone, anywhere, to watch and share freely.
Their films explore a range of themes, capturing a sense of gratefulness through meaningful conversation with ordinary people doing extraordinary things
Stedson is a conservationist and botanist on St Helena Island, and has helped to bring a number of endangered endemic plants on the island, back from the brink of extinction. ‘I grew up like a wild boy. And that’s a lovely way to live.’ – Stedson Stroud.
Filmed in Saint Helena.
