sustainability
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.
Meditations, Sustainability
Loving your neighbor means protecting their ecosystem
The most important command about how we treat each other is clear: Love “Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law […]
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About Our Work, Mexico, Tanzania, Updates
How Community-Led Conservation Drives Watershed Restoration
Community Readiness Assessments Prepare the Way Over the next year, Plant With Purpose will launch programs focusing on watershed restoration in 9 new areas around the world. This exciting expansion is the result of strategic planning in partnership with the participants of the communities where we hope to work. Exactly how does this happen? It […]
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Environmental Restoration, Ethiopia, Sustainability
Hope Amidst Conflict
Farmers lead the healing of their watershed during uncertain times For almost three years, our U.S. Plant With Purpose staff were unable to visit our program partners in Ethiopia due to conflict in the Amhara region, which resulted in insecurity and severe travel restrictions. In fact, the airport was shut down only days after our […]
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DR Congo, Environmental Restoration
Environmental Healing in the Kilibi Watershed
This Earth Month, we are excited to share stories of environmental stewardship happening around the world and to encourage you that when people come together, transformation is possible! Like most of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Kilibi watershed was once lush, teeming with wildlife and fertility. However, tree cutting for agriculture and charcoal […]
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Living Sustainably, Tanzania
From Banana Fields to Medical School
How one mother’s determination enables her children to become medical professionals For many parents, the dream of seeing their children become doctors feels almost impossible. For Vumilia, a smallholder farmer in rural Tanzania, that dream once seemed far beyond reach. Today, two of her children are studying medicine at university. But the path from struggling […]
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Living Sustainably, Resources, Sustainability
Greenwashing: Avoid Falling Prey to Deception While Trying to Do Good
Natacha in Haiti knows that overcoming these environmental challenges isn’t easy, but she also believes it is possible. Going green is good for business. Over the past five years, internet searches for sustainable goods have increased by 71%. As global concern heightens with images of Amazonian deforestation, ocean garbage patches, and the lived experience of […]
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Climate Solutions, Sustainability
How Plant With Purpose promotes biodiversity
Biodiversity is a very important priority in Plant With Purpose's work. But what is biodiversity and why is it important? Milmer Martinez Vergara, our regional partnership manager to Latin America & the Caribbean, describes it well: Biodiversity is simple. Biodiversity is the variety of life in the world or in a habitat or ecosystem. The […]
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Meditations, Sustainability
We're Resurrection People, After All!
The following is a letter from our Creative Director, Philippe Lazaro, on what happens when a global pandemic runs into Easter- a day where we celebrate resurrection. What a month it’s been. To echo a Tweet by Andy Crouch I read, “Honestly, I hadn’t planned on giving up this much for Lent.” There’s something oddly […]
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Meditations, Sustainability
Restoring civility is a necessary step towards sustainability
A divisive social climate contributes to an unsustainable global climate It’s a presidential election year in the United States, and unsurprisingly political tensions and anxieties run high. There has been no shortage of words about the way our world is extremely polarized and divided. Spend more than a small amount of time online, and you’ll […]
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Meditations, Sustainability
I’m concerned about climate. Why should I support a Christian environmental organization?
“The faithful have a long tradition of ministering to and seeking justice for the most vulnerable and providing the action we need to achieve a just and healthy world. As such, the faithful are leading on climate solutions today.” –Kara Ball, Blessed Tomorrow Plant With Purpose is a Christian environmental organization. It’s a key part […]
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Sustainability
What is regenerative agriculture and why is it so exciting?
“Do you want to know the most exciting thing about regenerative agriculture? It’s the word “regenerative.” It means we actually have the ability to bring seemingly dead, practically infertile soil back to life!” –Sheryl Karas, Center for Regenerative Agriculture Systems at CSU Chico Excitement around regenerative agriculture, sometimes called regenerative farming, is booming. Perhaps it’s […]
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Meditations, Sustainability
Eco-Discipleship: How God calls us to learn from nature
We often overlook the way nature teaches us about God It’s not uncommon to hear people explain how a little time in nature helps people feel closer to God. But the idea of spending time in nature as a spiritual discipline can still be startling for many people. “I used to laugh at people who […]
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Meditations, Sustainability
Who gets left out of environmental storytelling?
Environmental storytelling has often failed to focus on the communities that are most impacted The people most vulnerable to climate change are those living in the poorest areas. This has been a consistent area of focus for Plant With Purpose. It is the reason why we work in the places where we work. The 800 […]
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All, Meditations, Sustainability
Faith, culture, and identity shape environmental efforts around the planet
What moves people to actually care for the environment at a local level? Duang Dee lives in Thailand, though he himself is Karen. The Karen are an ethinic group in Southeast Asia that do not have their own formal country. Instead, they live between Thailand and Myanmar. Historically, the areas of northern Myanmar have been […]
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All, Sustainability
Want to help provide clean water? Protect the watershed!
Dirty water is one of the biggest hazards to humans around the world Every year, about 3.5 million people around the world will die from unclean water. About two thirds of them will be children. This is the equivalent of a large commercial airplane crashing every single hour. For those of us who have easy […]
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