How Change Begins
Empowered Pembans make their own change.Community Forests International incubates ideas and the innovation grows. Several individuals working together can change a landscape....
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Sharing Innovation for a Planet in Need
When we started working on the island of Pemba, off the coast of Tanzania, things were different.Traditionally Pembans fished. Land was used for building homes, producing...
Taking action with friends and supporters.
How do you respond when natural habitats are destroyed and clear, pure freshwater is polluted? It’s the sort of problem we address almost daily at CFI; sometimes...
Come Help Us!
Free Lunch too! What: Brook rehabilitation, silt fence installation, and tree planting. At Whaelghinbran Farm we are working to continue the model of not only sustainable land...
Permaculture Design and Implementation Course
Permaculture Ethics and our course schedule: September 7th and 8th 2013 at Whaelghinbran Farm. Care for the people: Nutrition with Ariel Richards of AR Holistic Health (
kubadalisha mawazo
kubadalisha mawazo: Swahili, to put your mind in someone else's head. To share minds and change each other.
Jeff used this word during a brainstorming session the...
Permaculture Design at Whole Systems Farm
Water: Slow It – Spread It – Sink It. Abundance, productivity, efficiency, resilience, restoration and beauty can be words that describe where we live while still...
The incredible, edible Moringa
Kiswahili: Moringa English: Moringa Latin: Moringa oleifera
Moringa is a very incredible, edible tree. It's leaves and seeds are rich in protein,...
How can we stop climate change, save forests and create jobs?
Healthy, natural forests like this old-growth hemlock and pine stand at Sporting Lake, NS, store much more carbon than young, fast growing plantations.We're making use of...
Free and Easy Travel With a Conscience
We live in an amazing world. Absolutely stunning. And for the first time in history, we have the technological ability to access just about any point on the globe on a whim....
Join the Timber Framing Revival!
Timber framing, or post and beam construction, is the art of building structures out of heavy timber joined together with carefully carved and interlocking wooden joints, pegs,...
“What types of trees do you plant in Pemba?”
Community nurseries in Pemba are now raising over 30 different species and every season a few more are added to the roster. We thought we'd share profiles of these trees...
Adventures in Bee Snatching
I did something last week that I would have thought outrageous a few days before. Daimen and I just spent a week or so at Whaelghinbran last week. We were there...
2012 Annual Report
CFI's 2012 Annual Report is available now!
Megan deGraaf Guest Post- Fundy Biosphere Reserve Climate Change Adaptation
The Fundy Biosphere Reserve (FBR) has recently launched a new and innovative project to research and mitigate the effects of climate change on forest communities in...
Pemba Adapts
Climate change is here. In response, Pembans are working to innovate how they live and work in order to cope as the world changes around them. So here it is, a list of new and...
CFI's Pancake Breakfast and AGM!
Community Forests International invites you to join us for our Pancake Breakfast and 2013 Annual General Meeting, on July 13.We've had an amazing year. This year in...
Beginning the CFI Adventure
A reflection on my first week as CFI's summer student and new addition to the team.“What’s on your wish-list this summer?” This question was posed to me...
Community Powered Change - News from the 2013 Tree Planting Fundraiser
Canadian tree planters are not your typical philanthropists. They live and work in remote bush camps, dealing with bears and black flies in the Canadian wild. They face student...
Plant for Pemba - B.C. Update
Hardwork and Heart A force to be reckoned with, Brinkman tree planters have planted over 66,500 trees for the Plant for Pemba fundraiser so far this year, raising just...
Meet Our New Staff!
Madeleine Smith - CFI's Summer Student Event CoordinatorMadeleine is from Brampton, Ontario and just recently finished her studies in International Development at the...
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