Elemental Equity
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Living Lands is delighted to be able to offer you a chance to invest in the 'Elemental Equity' fund. This charitable 'natural capital' (and ecosystem services) fund acts as an independent interface to support activities carried out through South Africa's Eastern Cape Restoration Programme. Elemental Equity is open to individuals and businesses committed to securing their cultural and ecological heritage through community driven activities. And with your good nature, Elemental Equity can effectively engage individuals and empower the local community in finding creative solutions for restoring their ‘living landscapes’ and maintaining natural and cultural diversity through changing times. The Elemental Equity fund gives you the opportunity to invest in restoring core elements of the environment across South Africa's Eastern Cape. At the same time, you are helping to support ongoing efforts to develop new opportunities for community teams trained through the national Working for Water/Woodlands/Wetlands/Fire poverty relief and capacity building programmes.
- 4Earth: This fund supports the interaction of all the above elements. Earth represents the natural ecosystem processes which depend on biodiversity and its conservation. Your investment funds diverse activities which: improve soil retention (reduce erosion); improve soil productivity; and improve native wildlife (flora and fauna) diversity. Supports sustainable agriculture & community-based biodiversity monitoring/restoration programmes (e.g. with Working for Wetlands).
- 4Water: This fund supports activities which aim to secure the vital water supply upon which thousands of South African livelihoods depend. Your investment supports: restoration activities which free up rivers from non-native invasive plant species; and rehabilitates wetland areas so they can again function as purifiers and retainers for precious water. Supports Working for Water.
- 4Air: This fund supports activities which aim to restore a healthy balance of oxygen (O2) and carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere. Your investment goes directly towards planting native subtropical thicket species (primarily the carbon thirsty spekboom, Portulacaria afra) which stores carbon dioxide (considered a key factor in accelerating climate change) in the soil and biomass and rehabilitates degraded lands by increasing vegetation cover. Supports Working for Woodlands.
- 4Fire: This fund ensures the wise and responsible use of fire in managing and restoring natural landscapes. Your investment supports: training for catalyzing ecological restoration through the wise use of fire; education and awareness programmes; and adopting solar power/renewable energy for the facilities used for restoration activities. Supports the Working on Fire programme.
As a charitable fund, Elemental Equity utilizes inward investment (donations, other contributions) for restoring natural landscapes. This provides economic and learning opportunities for the rural poor who are directly rewarded for managing ‘elements’ of landscapes sustainably (through an incentive scheme known as Elemental Earnings)
Elemental Equity provides you a transparent chance to compensate your ecological footprint. And it is a real chance to make a simple and direct investment to recharge the elements which support and sustain our everyday life.
You can view all Elemental Equity investments here http://eyes4earth.org/climate_culture.html
2. Warm Fuzzy Feeling Fund:
There is also a critical need for long-term community capacity building in order to carry out the activities which will ensure effective and sustainable restoration of ‘living landscapes’. The ‘Warm Fuzzy Feeling’ fund has been set-up to support these aims. The Warm Fuzzy Feeling fund supports a variety of activities related to skills development, creative learning, education and training, personal experience and overall capacity building related to landscape restoration.
Your investment in a Warm Fuzzy Feeling directly supports: community training and educational programmes; hands-on workshops; participatory biodiversity monitoring; nature experience opportunities; and other related activities carried out the restoration/horticultural nurseries and ‘learning villages’.
Your contribution is a generous way to give yourself and others a delightful warm fuzzy feeling as well as actually to help grow people and plants into the future – and for the future.
Living Lands
Living Lands is a South African foundation focusing on the restoration of natural landscapes. The primary role of Living Lands is to 1. Coordinate the PRESENCE (Participatory Restoration of Ecosystem Services & Natural Capital, Eastern Cape) learning network; 2. Manage ...
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