The Thinking Watermill Society is a non-profit organization, where we do research, we organize round tables and conferences, and we publish books and reports.
“We created The Thinking Watermill Woods, a regeneration project, planting trees in the world to fight climate emergency and support farming communities.”
Among our sustainability priorities, we thought about creating a wood of trees and started with 100 trees planted in Guatemala; more trees have been planted – we now reached almost 640 trees - and others will follow. We call it “wood” because the trees are still a few, but we hope they will become a forest.
We would like to reach 10,000 trees, which would cover approximately 40 hectares, which are 100 acres (“Hundred-acre wood”) because we believe that, in order to save the world, we should remain children in some way and be inspired by fairy tales.
The trees are being planted not only in Latin America, but also in Italy and – lately - in other parts of the world (such as Tanzania).
5 progetti in 5 paesi, 11 comunità. Ogni parcella ha un perimetro rilevato in campo.
Piantiamo nuovi alberi con le donne delle comunità Masaai, favorendo l'empowerment femminile e contrastando l’erosione dei suoli.
Creiamo foreste in Guatemala per supportare comunità contadine a resistere agli effetti della crisi climatica e alle oppressioni dei più forti.
Recuperiamo sementi di specie in via d’estinzione per salvaguardare ecosistemi vulnerabili all’interno della foresta amazzonica peruviana.
Rigeneriamo boschi nativi della Patagonia andina colpiti dagli incendi, in collaborazione con le comunità locali che si prendono cura delle foreste.
Piantiamo alberi nelle cooperative agricole sociali a supporto di persone svantaggiate mediante l'adozione di pratiche agronomiche sostenibili.