What if the problem is not that we don’t know enough, but that we’ve forgotten how to truly see? For Marie-Claire Greve, photographer and long-time ambassador for Climate Cleanup, the starting point is not urgency, but attention. Not crisis, but connection. And, more fundamentally, a renewed sense of value. “The moment people begin to feel…
We warmly invite you to join us for Wij kopen Nederland vrij! on November 19 at the Warming Up Festival. A program we wholeheartedly organize together with our great partners like Lenteland, Grond van Bestaan, De Jonge Voedselbosboeren, and Climate Imaginaries at Sea Collective. Can collective landownership be a systemic climate solution? Together with pioneers…
“There’s no feeling like seeing stuff green and alive and fruit starting to form.” – Karim Kouddous Setting up a syntropic farm is like software development, Kareem ascertains while showing us the irrigation system. You have complex systems that interact, parts of the system are developed in sprints, you have to test and see how…
We are thrilled that Paul Hawken, author of Drawdown and Regeneration, has a new book out that resonates with our work at many levels: Carbon, the Book of Life. It might help us all to refrain from carbon reductionism and embrace a holistic vision: carbon not as a molecule, but as the carrier of energy,…
Stichting Re/Generatie is organizing a Regeneration Week from April 26 to May 3 (during the May holiday) in Catalunya, Spain, and there are still a few spots left! You wake up to a symphony of birdsong and step outside to find yourself surrounded by rolling hills. Everywhere you look, the vibrant green of young medicinal herbs and plants catches…
What is a harvest share? For one season, you can come and harvest fruit, vegetables, herbs, oyster mushrooms and flowers with us for a fixed amount per year. By buying a harvest share or several harvest shares, you will receive an e-mail every week with what can be harvested per share. A harvest share is…
We are happy that Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), the removal and storage of CO₂ from air and oceans, is gaining increasing global attention, and recently also in the Netherlands. The Ministry of Climate and Green Growth of Sophie Hermans recently presented a comprehensive National Roadmap, while Province Gelderland conducted a market surveywith other provinces, carried out by…
Working to store carbon with nature means constant adaptation. Last year, BambooLogic had a lot of rain in the Alcoutim region and this has benefited growth last year. The plants are producing shoots up to one and a half metres from the plant and more than two metres tall. Slowly but surely, a bamboo forest…
“As large as my fist,” Lovael (8) describes the Tarantula. And his brother Elouan (5) is keeping an eye on it. They found it under a boxing ball, the springy kind mounted on a stand. It is where the spider chose to feel at home here in the Northern part of the Yucatán. Life feels…
Open position for Volunteer Fundraiser at Resilient Ecosystems Institute A.C. Location: Remote Compensation: Volunteer (initially). About Us Resilient Ecosystems Institute A.C., based in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, is a non-profit organization committed to revitalizing tropical ecosystems, addressing climate change, and safeguarding biodiversity. Our mission is to develop impactful solutions that empower communities, restore ecological…
Gerben van Bennekom is working alongside his father, with the aim of improving the soil of their family farm in Renswoude, on the border of Utrecht and Gelderland. Gerben has been experimenting with non-inversion tillage, undersowing maize, bokashi. And has a second business branch of compost, worms and worm mulch. Gerben want “to get the…
In an effort to introduce our entrepreneurs, ambassadors, and followers to each other, we like to feature one person (or organization) in every newsletter. Today, we’re highlighting the work of Liesbeth van Bemmel, the founder and farmer of Voedselbos Benthuizen. Voedselbos Benthuizen is a food forest that allows members to “come to harvest, plant trees,…
In an effort to introduce our entrepreneurs, ambassadors, and followers to each other, we like to feature one person (or organization) in every newsletter. Today, we’re highlighting the work of Heleen Eshuis, the founder of Stichting Bosnodig. Stichting Bosnodig is creating a food forest in the Dutch town of Voorst and has just been certified…
Eric Litjens is growing the fastest growing tree on earth – which also makes it the tree that is the fastest to sequester carbon. Join the 66th Double Nature Talk! Language: DUTCH Former fruit tree grower Eric Litjens is removing carbon with Paulownia trees. At the Double Nature Lunch Talk on Tuesday 26 September, he…
Scave.World: Double Nature Talk, September 12 2023Bart van Beuzekom has a regenerative farm in Portugal and also several hectares in the Netherlands. For example, he produces delicious pasta with old plant varieties. Bart has not been a farmer since childhood; he started five years ago. Because he wanted to take action against the destruction of…
We would like to warmly invite you to the first four-day Double Nature Summit ever, organised from May 22nd to May 25th, with international partners, in the Netherlands and (partly) online. The summit is for pioneers, scientists, investors and policymakers or for those simply interested in these fields. The leading question is: how to regeneratively double nature to re-store…
Based on work by Griscom, WWF and others Climate Cleanup investigated how much carbon can be restored in NatureTech approaches in The Netherlands. Find the full factsheet here.
Transforming biomass into biochar is a very old way of fertilizing the soil – as well as sequestering carbon dioxide. Biochar is a booming natural climate solution. Perpetual Next’s advisor and longtime cleantech investor Albert Fischer has been working on biochar for quite some time now. He will be joined by Dutch Carboneers Berend de Haas and…
Bamboo is known as the fast growing wonder plant from Asia, but the plant does also flourish in Europe and even in the Netherlands. Joost Borneman and Brian Wennersten have devoted their lives to this multi-potent natural climate solution and were therefor asked to present their views and experiences June 23, 8 pm CEST at…
The island Utopia in Almere is slowly changing into an agroforestry experience, opening next year April on the occasion of the Floriade 2022. Curator Xavier San Giorgi shows how he doubles nature and grows food by regenerating 1,4 hectare of land in the centre of this Dutch city of 200.000 inhabitants. The Floriade is the Dutch…
Together with 50+ Dutch organizations, we’ve written a manifesto for regeneration of the soil in the Netherlands. It would be great if you would also sign this manifest. Take a look on the website of Aardpeer. 21 baby’s and their parents are asking for
Climate Cleanup founder Sven Jense was interviewed in the first podcast of Interface. Janneke Leenaars and Sven talked about removing CO2 with biobased materials. It was a great honour to kick off this podcast serie. We’re looking forward to the next episode. To listen to the Interface podcast (in Dutch) click here.
The benefits of biobased constructions are enormous. For people. For nature. For the climate. People have evolved in nature, in the forests and in the fields. Wooden architecture brings nature back into our artificial built environment. We start to feel better: invigorated, healthier and with an increased sense of well-being. As we know, trees
Most people are starting their decade of ecosystem restoration right now. The Dutch foundation Africa Wood Grow has already finalized a decade of regeneration in Kenia. During our online Double Nature Talk of January 20 founders Roeland Lelieveld and Daniel Muvali presented the Africa Wood Grow regenerative farms near the Tiva river. How does Africa…
