WOW: Catholic bishops from around the world are calling for an end to fossil fuel use and increased efforts to secure a global climate treaty! Speaking about the announcement, Monsignor Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón, Archbishop of Ayacucho, and president of the…
Climate change is increasing the likelihood of more extreme hot weather. In fact, if you are under the age of 37 you've never experienced a year of below average temperature. Over the past 100 years, heatwaves have caused more deaths…
Today the East Timorese MTGs arrived in the 'bus' for lessons in an outdoor classroom set up at one of the WithOneSeed nurseries. Mike ran a session around seed propagation, we had lots of discussion about the need to control…
WithOneSeed today held it's main local stakeholder consultation in Baguia, Timor Leste to discuss International Carbon Certification with subsistence farmers who are managing over 40,000 mahogany trees in their farms. We have consulted with over 200 farmers over the past…
US president Barack Obama has formally announced a $US3 billion contribution to an international fund to help poor countries cope with the effects of climate change. He outlined his pledge to the UN Green Climate Fund while speaking to university…
Today WithOneSeed and the Australian Agroforestry Foundation launched the Master Tree Growers Course in Baguia, Timor Leste. Subsistence farmers are undertaking a 5 day tree management program aimed at replanting the forests of Timor Leste and building local village economies.…
Climate change deal: US-China agreement embarrasses Abbott Government. The World Today By Naomi Woodley and Eleanor Hall Mr Abbott, speaking at the East Asia Summit in Napyidaw, Myanmar, said while welcome, the US-China deal would not prompt him to put…
WithOneSeed co-founders Andrew Mahar AM and Leopoldina Guterres recall the time when WithOneSeed first came to Baguia, Timor Leste. They talk about the reforestation of the land and how WithOneSeed has had a positive impact on the village community of…
Four weeks gone and half way through… have trained WithOneSeed staff to deliver three village based meetings about climate change, replanting the forests of Timor to build village economies and international carbon certification – quite an agenda. Back in Dili…
The 28th of October 2014 was the second anniversary of the death of John Tadeo Gusmao, co founder of WithOneSeed. John was in his mid forties when he died from a three month illness. John was a son, a brother,…
