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Get Your Own Square Of Rainforest Land... Keep it, gift it or reinvest it. From as little as $250. Invest now: www.squarebysquare.org #conservationland #proptech #valueinvesting #realestate #startup

Being a nature custodian is something Indigenous People can offer invaluable guidance on, and celebrating Australia’s indigenous heritage should be a gift we leave to future generations, along with healthy native forests and biodiversity. Integral to SquareBySquare's rollout is ensuring that Indigenous People get access to (their) land to for cultural practices, and a platform for sharing (with compensation and respect) knowledge to help local communities be sustainable in ways that does not conflict with a world view that sees nature and man as interdependent. #indigenouspeople #climatepositive #landmanagement #landstewardship

A panel on "Giving Nature a Seat at the Board Table" at SXSW Sydney amplifies the urgent wake up call to organisations to account for nature in our business plans 🌿 ... At SquareBySquare we're on a mission to unlock the natural capital value of nature, in order to protect it. #conservationstartup #sustainability #proptech

What happens to native forests globally, will impact all of us. Make sure you lobby for politicians and policies that protect these habitats critical for survival. #climateontheballot

On our way to becoming a household name... Hey Google... please offset my energy use today with an equal measure of #naturepositive action. #tinysquaresbigimpact

Looking forward to meeting all the other social and environmental impact entrepreneurs... Our founder Henk Kleynhans will be there in person and Ingi Deutschländer tuning in from South Africa. Both of us have experience in running NPOs and policy lobbying, and if anything makes a difference in ensuring sustainability for startups (and impact), it's a move away from the donor / fundraising model and changing boards of traditional NPO strategy, and towards the social enterprise model Shout out to Social Enterprise Australia for making it possible for so many of us to attend SXSW Sydney #socialenterprise #sustainability #socialchange #environmentalchange #sxsw

How can real estate agents help conservation efforts in Australia? SquareBySquare bridges the gap between the real estate industry and conservation efforts, enabling real estate agents to offer their clients something beyond traditional property transactions, i.e. the chance to become rainforest landowners. Thanks Peter Schravemade REACH Australia and Elite Agent for the media story! https://lnkd.in/dZy93AMv #conservationstartup #proptech

Positive Tipping Points? They exist, if you know where to look... Negative “tipping points” invoke a sense of dread for those following climate change. Crossing these critical thresholds mark a point of no return for ensuring we maintain a liveable planet. But here’s the thing about tipping points: They’re not all bad. Positive tipping points explain the juncture at which the mass adoption of zero-emission solutions becomes inevitable. Some of them, known as “super-leverage” points, would not only accelerate the clean energy transition in their own sector, but would also produce cascades of climate progress in other sectors. We’ve already passed one positive tipping point. Solar and wind energy are currently cheaper than burning coal or gas in most of the world. But there are many more, and it’s important for us as disseminators of "news" to understand and communicate this data plainly, because they hold the potential to exponentially accelerate the clean energy transition and fossil fuel phase-out. There are solutions stories waiting to be reported. Will SquareBySquare's success story be next? We are preparing for our launch this month, in a round of seed funding, and ready to show that it makes economic sense to protect conservation land, particularly carbon sinks like rainforests, and in Australia, make it unthinkable to destroy native forest for short term profit. Huge shoutout to Covering Climate Now for amazing resources & best practices for climate journalists and any of us wanting to understand the potential of data for change. https://lnkd.in/dEWU_mAy #netzero #tippingpoint #climateaction #climateoptimism #solutions

Flight shame is a thing! On World Tourism Day we call on everyone to consider sustainability when planning holiday trips and supporting local small business when booking tours. SquareBySquare's vision is to enable airlines to make it possible for anyone booking to add a tiny square of rainforest land to offset your carbon footprint... how does this sound? Would you be willing to add 10-50$ to your travel budget to make this vision a reality? #sustainabletravel #worldtravelday #carbonfootprint #flightshame

Today is World Cassowary Day! The cassowary population in Mission Beach is under significant threat, with estimates suggesting that there may be only around 50 adult cassowaries left in the area. This species was listed as endangered in 1991, and development continues to encroach on its essential habitat. A keystone species in the ecosystem, cassowaries are the sole dispersers of many large rainforest fruits and have a foraging range of up to 7 square kilometers! This makes them a major contributor to the health of the biodiversity of various ecosystems. A perfect example of the symbiotic relationship between forest and animal, which we at @squarebysquare hope to help preserve with our first project in partnership with C4 Community for Coastal and Cassowary Conservation which is doing amazing work up there with the help of the community. #cassowary #natureconservation #rainforestland #biodiversity https://lnkd.in/gxggtWHU