We envision a world that breathes.
We envision a world where sustainable agricultural provides all people with access to high quality and culturally appropriate foods; a world where agriculture is a tool for reversing climate change and supporting social equity.
We envision a world where every child that comes into the world can have a tree planted in their honor and where companies, schools, airlines and transportations companies plant a tree to offset their carbon footprint as part of the new norm.
Our Goals are just as optimistic as we are.
The Grow The Change Movement will do the following:
Make it accessible for everyone to take part in tree planting initiatives.
Provide partnership and support to existing tree planting organizations.
Launch campaigns that will reach marginalized communities, by creating new food forests and gardens around these parts of the world.
Organize large scale seed bombing for reforestation efforts in the world’s rainforests and clearcut areas.
Promote carbon offsetting. GTC will work with companies to get them to adopt/fund carbon-offset commitments.
Our Founders:
Rebekah Uccellini-Kuby
Rebekah Uccellini-Kuby is a earth-steward, permaculture designer, and landscape architect who has been passionate about reforestation since 1999. She is currently the Director of EthicalCoach.org and Grow the Change. Her work has been focused around the alleviation of suffering in the world through creating connections, and bridging access to that which enables communities to thrive. She has worked in food security, “access-equality” and used regenerative system design as a framework for poverty alleviation and supporting community development.
She has helped to plant over 50,000 trees to date and counting.
Eli Call
Eli Call is a philanthropist, successful and prolific entrepreneur and investor, humanitarian, and visionary. His life’s work is focused on uplifting humanity and the planet through providing sustainable, affordable New Energy Technologies for all people worldwide.
Eli has dedicated his life to cultivating the tools, education, resources and wisdom to steward a global movement with the intention of moving humanity towards clean, energy, with new Energy Technologies, on an international level. In 2003, Eli graduated from Utah State University with a BS degree in Finance and Economics.
Eli has travelled to over 50 countries, many of which have been on service projects. He creates and manages teams of first responders to go into regions devastated by natural disasters and get hospitals back into functionality as quickly as possible, so that doctors, nurses and supplies from partners with Stanford Medical and Harvard Medical School, can then be sent in. At the age of 28 Eli founded a non-profit called www.Hugitforward.com, which grew exponentially in subsequent years and has built 53 schools to date. In 2013, Hugitforward.com had the honor of being featured on Oprah.
Eli has dedicated his life to being in service, and to co-creating a new way of relating to the earth’s resources that will empower and uplift the future generations of the world.