Climate Solutions
Discover real-world stories of communities overcoming poverty and deforestation! Plant With Purpose, a Christian non-profit, shares examples of environmental sustainability and stewardship from all around the world. These stories show us how faith, resilience, and sustainable practices transform people’s lives as well as their environment. As rural families overcome poverty and heal the planet, embrace empowerment, renewal, and hope.
Climate Solutions, Tanzania
The Power of a Planted Tree: Changing Lives in Rural Tanzania
What does the power of the planted tree look like? In the lush but ecologically vulnerable hills of Tanzania, smallholder farmers have long lived at the mercy of harsh environmental conditions. Deforestation, soil erosion, and unpredictable rainfall have created a reality where farming, once a stable way of life, can quickly spiral into a struggle […]
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Climate Change, Climate Solutions, Environmental Restoration
Success Stories: Environmental Restoration Through Community Tree Planting Projects
Trees are vital to the health of our planet. They clean our air, provide shade, prevent soil erosion, and support biodiversity. Unfortunately, deforestation and environmental degradation have taken a toll on tree populations worldwide. But there's hope! Communities around the globe are taking action, proving that community tree planting efforts can revitalize ecosystems and create […]
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Climate Solutions, Environmental Restoration
The Future of Farming: Regenerative Agriculture and Tree Planting
Before partnering with Plant With Purpose, Fredilin's life was defined by vulnerability. Dependent on farming and livestock, his livelihood was precarious, subject to the whims of unpredictable harvests. This instability forced him into a cycle of debt, relying on "dangerous, untrustworthy loans" to survive. His situation reflects the reality for many smallholder farmers in developing […]
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Climate Solutions, Environmental Restoration, Sustainability
Women’s Cooperatives in Tree Planting: A Model for Success
Women’s cooperatives are using tree planting as a model for economic success and community development. These cooperatives are creating financial independence, fostering community collaboration, and restoring degraded lands through sustainable tree farming. Plant With Purpose’s program, designed to help communities restore their lands and overcome poverty, has helped a number of these women’s cooperatives establish […]
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Climate Solutions, Dominican Republic, Environmental Restoration, Ethiopia, Mexico
How Tree Planting Helps Rebuild Natural Habitats
Forests are the lungs of our planet, as they provide vital oxygen, clean the air, and support life. Unfortunately, deforestation and habitat destruction have led to a dramatic decline in forest cover worldwide, threatening countless species with extinction. Tree planting initiatives offer a crucial solution, not only mitigating climate change but also playing a vital […]
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All, Climate Solutions
Tree Planting as a Tool for Economic Empowerment in Developing Nations
In many nations, poverty and environmental degradation are intertwined. Deforestation is driven by factors like charcoal production and unsustainable logging, which stem from economic desperation. This leads to soil erosion, decreased biodiversity, and climate change. However, a growing movement recognizes the potential of tree planting as a powerful tool to address these challenges while simultaneously […]
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Climate Solutions, Environmental Restoration, Ethiopia
Restoring Degraded Lands with Community-Led Tree Planting in Ethiopia
Ethiopia is blessed with diverse landscapes, however, faces significant environmental challenges and degraded lands, including deforestation, soil erosion, and desertification. These issues not only threaten the country's biodiversity and ecological balance but also have a profound impact on the livelihoods of those who rely on agriculture. However, a growing movement of community-led tree-planting initiatives is […]
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Burundi, Climate Solutions, DR Congo, Environmental Restoration
Rewilding Landscapes: The Impact of Tree Planting on Wildlife
How tree planting is rewilding degraded landscapes, bringing back wildlife, and restoring ecosystems to their natural state. The concept of rewilding landscapes has gained significant traction in recent years as a means to address the pressing issue of biodiversity loss. Rewilding is the process of restoring degraded ecosystems to their natural state, allowing for the […]
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Climate Change, Climate Solutions
Why Vanessa Nakate’s Christian Environmentalism should be taken seriously
At the age of 22, Vanessa Nakate stood in front of the Ugandan Parliament building alone with a cardboard sign. Green love Green peace and Climate Strike Now were among the slogans written on it as she carried out her single-person protest for five months. It was a small start for someone who has become […]
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Climate Solutions, Our Response
Monitoring, Evaluation, and Navigating Complexity: Why the easy way isn’t always the best way
One of the most important parts of Plant With Purpose’s work is measuring its efficacy. This is also one of the most difficult parts. As we apply our model of Community Designed Restoration© (CDR) to rural watersheds across the globe, we want to ensure that our work is having its intended impact. As trees are […]
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Climate Change, Climate Solutions
On Christians and Climate Change: To Whom Much Is Given, Much Will Be Required
By nature, Christians have two superpowers. First, we have the ability to walk into the unknown without fear. Abraham did this; David did this. It’s what Jesus called all of his disciples to do. It’s what Paul and the early Christians did. As Paul described in 2 Timothy: “for God gave us a spirit not of fear but […]
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Climate Solutions, Tanzania
Can a climate vulnerable community become 6x more sustainable?
Note: A draft of this blog was posted in error. Please disregard it entirely and review this corrected post, updated August 16, 2022. Plant With Purpose values sharing accurate and factual information, and we will promptly notify readers when that has not been the case. Thank you for your trust and understanding. Climate change is […]
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About Our Work, Climate Solutions, Environmental Restoration
What is Regenerative Agriculture?
By Hannah Arledge The term “regenerative agriculture” seems to mean something slightly different to everyone. In fact, in a study published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, scholars found that “across 229 academic journal articles and 25 practitioner websites… only 51 percent of research articles that used the term supplied any sort of definition. Meanwhile, […]
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Climate Solutions
Refocusing the Climate Change Conversation: A Conversation about Environmental Restoration
The following is a session transcript of a conversation hosted as part of our Online Global Conference originally aired on Wednesday, October 6, 2021. One of the most important things we can do about climate change is talk about it, but that isn't always easy! Between scientific complexities, surging anxieties, and societal divides, it's hard […]
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Climate Solutions, Meditations
Eco-discipleship: The act of studying and learning from creation
The Good News of Jesus is Good News for all of creation. One of the core ideas underlying the practice of ecological discipleship (eco discipleship), is drawing closer to God through study and engagement in the natural world. Musician Audrey Assad expresses, “I used to laugh at people who called nature a church. It mystified […]
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