Welcome to Greenheart Connects
A FREE online series to inspire viewers to care for the earth and for each other. Each month, we share original stories about environmentalism, volunteering, fair trade, and personal growth.
Hope Happens - The Yellow Tulip Project
Suzanne Fox & Madeleine Manno
The Yellow Tulip Project aims to create spaces for determined youth to eradicate stigma, build community, and inspire productive conversations about how to combat the rising rates of suicide. Their Hope Garden and photography projects remind people that even in the darkest places, hope happens. Executive Director, Suzanne Fox, and Yellow Tulip Project ambassador Madeleine Manno will join Greenheart Connects for a short...
Visuals + Data = Better Conservation
Megan Westervelt and Josue Arteaga-Torres
Megan is a conservation photojournalist and former Fulbright scholar in Ecuador. She tells visual stories about human impact on the environment. Josue is a conservation biologist and ecologist researcher from Ecuador. He studies raptors, predator-prey interactions, and information use. Together, they are combining visual storytelling and research data to improve efforts to conserve and preserve fragile ecosystems on the fringes of human populations.
Dream Empowerment & the Liquid Love Foundation
Presious Esi Mensah
Precious Esi Mensah is the founder of Liquid Love Foundation in Ghana. She is a two-time Greenheart Summer Work Travel alumna and a graduate of the University of Ghana. Her desire to help her community--and to see people smile--led her to create an organization dedicated to caring for others. Precious organizes the energy of 70 people on the LLF team to provide various assistance to...
Fair Trade & the Amazon Rainforest with Jerónimo Cooklin of PaTS
Jeronimo Cooklin
Jeronimo Cooklin founded the Sustainable Furnishings Council to transform the home furnishings Industry and to help preserve the world's forests. Involved in the furniture Industry since 1986 and in Sustainable Development since 1998, he founded PaTS, a nonprofit in the Peruvian Amazon. PaTS has been working since 2000 with Yanesha indigenous community respectfully helping them to become artisans and business people, thus creating a dignified...