Sponsors
Volunteering
GreenSurf
GreenSurf is a non-profit organization focused on promoting educational awareness in the surf community with respect to clean and sustainable lifestyles. GreenSurf has specific projects aimed at facilitating communication and creating vehicles for environmental awareness in the surf industry. From developing technologies to produce environmentally friendly materials to educating children on ocean awareness and pollution prevention GreenSurf is working to cover the entire gamut and Feral Green is committed to assist with rolling out the mission. To read on about GreenSurf and Feral Green’s involvement visit www.GreenSurf.org.
Carbonfund.org
In partnership with GreenSurf, Cabonfund.org has developed a program called Carbonfree Surfing which provides surfers with an outlet to take direct action toward reducing their climate impacts. The program shows you how to analyze your individual or company CO2 footprint and decide how to offset it through a donation to climate-friendly non-profit projects. Feral Green will be a 100% carbon neutral trip by working through the Carbonfree Surfing program. Continue reading at www.Carbonfund.org .
Paso Pacifico
Paso Pacifico is a non-profit organization which acts as one of the vehicles for Carbonfund.org’s offsetting. The mission of Paso Pacifico is to restore and conserve the natural ecosystems along Central America’s Pacific slope in order to ensure the connecitivity and function of wildlife habitat. Feral Green will be volunteering time in Nicaragua at the Paso del Istmo corridor which boasts some of the highest densities of biodiversity in Nicaragua. Our time will be spent working to educate the local surf community on the importance of implementing protective measures in order ensure the repopulation of locally extinct or nearly extinct species. Delve into it at www.pasopacifico.org .
Patagonia Land Trust
Patagonia Land Trust/Conservacion Patagonica is dedicated to the protection and restoration of wildland ecosystems and biodiversity in Patagonia. Their mission is carried out by acquiring privately held wildlands and ultimately returning these lands to the public domain for protection in perpetuity in the form of national parks or reserves. Feral Green has committed our muscle in the form of manual labor to assist in prepping the lands for transfer into the national parks system.
Techo Para Mi Pais
The mission of Techo is simple - to be the greatest youth-led institution in Latin America with the objective and dream of working with families throughout the continent who are living in a situation of extreme poverty. They aspire to improve quality of life by building emergency houses and creating social development programs for the beneficiary families. Feral Green is reaching out to Techo to volunteer our time in several countries where they have bases and will be using our knowledge of construction to assist with building homes.