Progress Report, Inochi Amazon Rainforest Tree Planting Project

Progress Report, Inochi Amazon Rainforest Tree Planting Project

January 21, 2023

July 1, 2022 We launched our web site “inochi-trees.org.” 

July 31, 2022 We have received $6,882 donation.

August 31, 2022 We have received $7,502 donation in total. 

September 22, 2022 “Flying River,” 8’ x 12’ (2.43 m x 3.65 m), acrylic on canvas, was painted on the roof of Kaz’s studio in Berkeley, California. Zé Paiva from Brazil took sideview and drone photos of the process and posted them in Instagram and Facebook. 

September 30, 2022 We have received $10,385 donation in total.

October 12, 2022 We have applied for a matching grant of $65,000 for 2023 to Amazon’s Partners Platform in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development and Bioversity/CIAT Alliance.

October 31, 2022 We have received $23,420 donation in total.

November 20, 2022 We launched our Japanese web site: https://inochi-earth.org/treesjp

November 30, 2022  We have received $25,145 donation in total.

December 9, 2022  We have received $45,487 in total.

December 12, 2022 Painting Peace: Kunst in Zeiten globaler Krisen by Kazuaki Tanahashi, featuring the Inochi Tree Project was published by Manjugosha Edition, Berlin, Germany.

December 27, 2022  We have a $10,000 grant from the Pende Foundation, Switzerland.

January 21, 2023 We have received $58,880 in total.

We are currently holding fund for Brazil till January, 2023, as the matching fund we have applied for will be applicable after January, 2023.

Our objective is to raise $73,000 by June 30, 2023.

Thank you for all your support. We are very happy to work with you. Please keep spreading word.  Kazuaki Tanahashi for Inochi

“In short, we could return the climate to how it was decades ago just by planting trees.”

“Plant Trees. As many as you can.”

“Finance others to plant more trees as a symbol of the fact that you still have some way to go. Trees are good, and the world needs more of them.”

Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Cornac, The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimist’s Guide to the Climate Crisis [Christiana Figueres from Costa Rica was a chief architect of the United Nations’ highly-acclaimed Paris Agreement on Climate in 2015.]