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Justdiggit believes it is time to share positive and hopeful insights when it comes to climate change. People must be aware that we can restore ecosystems and that solutions exist.
Thesis Collaboration with Lorenzo Villani
Lorenzo Villani, in collaboration with Justdiggit and MetaMeta, researched the effect of trees on cooling down microclimates and ultimately the earth.
Read some exciting results from his study ->
Highlights 2020
2020 is almost over and… what a year it has been! Despite the challenges this year brought along, we have many highlights to share with you nonetheless! For instance: we dug 14,500 bunds, added three new grass seed banks, expanded to new countries, and worked hard on our (new) partnerships. Sit back and relax and read all about our highlights of 2020!
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Three new Grass Seed Banks
When it comes to our grass seed banks projects, we always say the grass is greener… when collaborating with a women’s group! The projects are going so well that we decided to set up three new banks in our project in Olgulului-Ololarashi (OOGR), Kenya. Time for a little update!
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Bringing back 84,000 trees with Winclove Probiotics
Together with our partner Winclove Probiotics, we’ve started to bring back 84,000 trees in Tanzania this year. By bringing back these trees, we regreen 2100 ha of land: an area almost twice the size of Amsterdam North, the home base of Winclove Probiotics.
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New partner: EarthToday accelerates nature protection at scale
Recently, we partnered up with EarthToday, a platform that seeks to raise awareness about the state of our planet and accelerate its protection. EarthToday raises funds for various organizations and communities that are involved in nature conservation and recovery, including Justdiggit.
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Disclosure Announce Partnership with Justdiggit
We are proud to announce our brand new partnership with Disclosure. The British electronic music duo joined our team last February on a trip to Tsavo-West in Kenya to learn more about the work the foundation undertakes in order to positively serve the local communities through a number of initiatives.
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Final Digging Day
On the last day of October, we have had our Final Digging Day of 2020. In the Enkii area in Kenya, we have reached our local regreening goal: 32,400 bunds have been dug.
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‘Green Your Fleet’ platform is now live!
Today our partner Webfleet Solutions launches the Green Your Fleet platform. This platform provides an easy-to-use tool that supports fleet customers to offset their carbon emissions to make a positive climate impact.
Webfleet Solutions has already partnered up with us since 2019 to offset its own carbon emissions. The Green Your Fleet initiative is part of Webfleet Solutions’ Green Mission to help build a more sustainable future: with this platform the company aims to offset the carbon emissions from its customers as well.
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Bringing green back with help of grazing management
Justdiggit is mostly known for digging to capture rainwater and re-growing trees, but did you know we use other regreening techniques as well? One of those being: grazing management. How does this work?
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We’re going to start digging again!
We’re going to start digging bunds again in our project area in Enkii, Kenya! Because of an exceptionally long rainy season (mid November to mid March) and COVID-19 we had to postpone the digging. Together with our partner MWCT (Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust) we have developed a protocol that makes it possible to dig bunds in a safe way.
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