Social (Business) Innovations

Reforestation/ Restoring landscapes
The "Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration" method by Tony Rinaudo is one of the most effective ways to reforest dry soil (often used in Africa).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltyAaebpyTg

Greener.land is an online tool for landscape restoration:
https://www.greener.land

"Justdiggit" uses different approaches to restorate landscapes in Africa. For examples, holes are digged in order to reuse rainwater:
https://justdiggit.org





Biodiversity
German Biology Professor Peter Berthold is creating a whole network of biotopes all over Germany connecting natural landscapes for endangered species:
https://www.sielmann-stiftung.de/natur-schuetzen/grundsaetze/biotope-verbinden
Interview:
http://www.gratis-webserver.de/si/2.html



Control of wildfires
The firesticks alliance in Australia shares the practices of "cultural burning" to cope with bush fires in an environmental way:
https://www.firesticks.org.au





Climathons
Climathons are a worldwide incubator programm for climate solutions. In so called hackatons brainstorming sessions in different cities (12 hours or more) shall generate ideas for local climate projects:
https://climathon.climate-kic.org/participate/






Climate Solutions
The Solar Impulse Foundation offers a search engine and a database of more than 1500 climate innovations:
https://solarimpulse.com/solutions-explorer






Energy/ Circular Economy /Plastic
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