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Meet the Artist and Business Power Behind Our Movement to Protect the Amazon

March 16, 2022 | Caelin Weiss | Eye on the Amazon

In many ways, Amazon Watch’s community reflects the expansive ecosystem we work to protect, showing up in endlessly diverse ways to amplify Indigenous rights and resistance. You donate, advocate, fundraise, and share our work with your community, growing the global movement for the future of the Amazon. Thank you.

Today, we’re shining a light on the wonderful businesses and artists who amplify Amazon Watch’s mission, spotlighting the creative ways they’re stepping up for the rainforest. This support takes many forms, and we hope they leave you feeling inspired and energized by the ways this community is centering Indigenous-led solutions for a beautifully sustainable rainforest.

+Three °°°

+Three °°° is an Italian–based brand that designs and creates ethically-sourced, sustainable handbags, describing their founding values as “responsibility and respect for the planet, for people and their work, for the community.” + Three °°° has designed multiple lines of handbags made from ethically-sourced Amazon tree tap latex to benefit Amazon Watch in our shared vision for a livable future and a commitment to Indigenous rights.

CREDO Mobile

For more than 35 years, mobile service provider CREDO Mobile has donated its revenue to the causes important to its customers. This has amounted to over $93 million being donated to organizations committed to environmental causes, LGBTQIA+ rights, civil rights, voting rights, expanding health care, and more. Since 2018, CREDO and Amazon Watch have teamed up around Earth Day to amplify our Indigenous partners’ calls for rainforest protection and respect for their rights and lives. Psst… in just a few weeks, we’ll be letting you know how you can take action to drive even more of CREDO’s outstanding support to Amazon Watch. Stay tuned!

GISH

The Greatest International Scavenger Hunt (GISH) is an annual week-long event where teams from all over the world complete strange and creative challenges, all while contributing to humanitarian and environmental causes. For ten years, GISH has leveraged the generosity of its growing community to empower Amazon Watch and many other organizations, translating the excitement of the scavenger hunt into a lasting tool for uplifting Indigenous rights and climate justice.

Next Earth

A blockchain-based virtual world featuring NFTs covering a digital replica of Earth, Next Earth champions Amazon Watch. A portion of each transaction that takes place in the Next Earth metaverse goes into their monthly charity pool, and community members are then invited to vote to determine how these funds will be split among environmental causes, including Amazon Watch. Next Earth’s sustaining support is having an enormous impact in advancing initiatives to protect the rainforest and our climate in solidarity with Indigenous communities.

Gracias Madre

Gracias Madre is a project of Sacred Fire Tribe, a nonprofit NGO whose mission is to empower natural solutions that restore individual and community health, well-being, and sustainability, through leading workshops and teachings to heal, regenerate, and reconnect. Gracias Madre supports Indigenous-led initiatives to protect territories, life, and culture in the Amazon by donating a percent of all contributions to Amazon Watch.

Sage Culture Gallery

As an art gallery and multidisciplinary space in Los Angeles, the Sage Culture Gallery incorporates a deep appreciation of nature with aesthetics and exhibits that seek to portray the relationship between people and nature over time. Sage Culture features artists whose deep connections to nature are the inspirational foundation of their work and who use natural materials to reimagine humans’ crucial but endangered bond with Earth.

Sage Culture supported Amazon Watch through a beautiful exhibit entitled Climatopia, which featured artists whose work reflects human’s relationship with Earth in order to reimagine our existence on the planet and to highlight the urgency of the threats facing ecosystems like the Amazon Rainforest.

Teemill

A sustainable, circular-design business that uses only organic materials and renewable energy-powered factories to create fashions, Teemill supports justice organizations like Amazon Watch. Amazon Watch’s custom clothing and gear are printed on demand, minimizing waste, and proceeds from sales of these beautiful designs directy support our work to protect the rainforest and our climate in solidarity with Indigenous peoples.

Atelier Sisk

With over two decades of experience as an artist and educator, Amanda Sisk works with a variety of mediums and uses natural and repurposed materials to create her contemplative sculptures and drawings. With a growing awareness of the severity of ecosystem destruction in the Amazon, Amanda created a series of bas-relief ornaments comprised of non-toxic, eco-friendly materials with proceeds supporting our work to halt Amazon destruction and amplify Indigenous solutions.

Atmos

Atmos is a banking platform that focuses on climate-positive banking, only lending to sectors that are helping to rapidly accelerate a transition away from activities that harm our planet toward those that protect it. Atmos prioritizes minimizing financial barriers so that anyone can participate in this shift to a carbon-free future. It doubles as a donation platform where users can round up and donate savings to Amazon Watch to empower our work to protect the rainforest and our climate.

Big Forest Frameworks

Big Forest Frameworks creates custom lightweight, durable handmade bike frames made with designs that they personalize to fit each rider’s style. By donating proceeds from the bikes they sell to Amazon Watch, Big Forest Frameworks is connecting bikers (and their very cool, customized bikes) with efforts to halt Amazon destruction and amplify Indigenous resistance and solutions.

Zach Otte Art

Zach Otte’s art is inspired by fish and rivers both in his home in the Western United States and throughout the world, including the Amazon rainforest. Recognizing the vital relationship Indigenous peoples have with their lands, and the central role they place in maintaining bioculturally diverse and healthy forests and rivers, Zach has dedicated sales from a number of artworks to protecting Indigenous land rights.

Ascent Photo and Video

Seeking to connect her Vermont-based photography business with Indigenous rights and environmental protection, Jamie Goldberg reached out to Amazon Watch to find a way to support our work through her craft. By contributing proceeds from her projects to Amazon Watch, Jamie ties together the important moments she captures in people’s lives to the Indigenous-led, global movement to defend the Amazon.

Sacred Mountain Sangha

Sacred Mountain Sangha provides retreats and trainings in devotional practices that place humans within a cosmology of inter-relationship honoring the Earth, environment, and all species. In this spirit, Sacred Mountain Sangha has supported Amazon Watch’s work through contributing proceeds from their retreats and introducing their community to our work for the Amazon and for climate justice.

Tombolo

Aiming to deliver “the ultimate wearable form of self-expression,” clothing brand Tombolo weaves style together with sustainable fabrics and packaging and directs proceeds from their sales to organizations dedicated to ecosystem protection, climate action, and food access. Last year, Tombolo celebrated Earth Day by designing and donating proceeds from a special Earth Day shirt to Amazon Watch!

Seeing so many unique and creative ways our community empowers this movement in one place is stunning. We hope reading about the artists and businesses who share your commitment to the Amazon and Indigenous rights leaves you feeling inspired! Know that each time you donate, advocate, and connect others with this work, you are part of a global network of people that meet the most significant threats to the Amazon head-on and amplify Indigenous solutions and voices every step of the way.

Thank you for being on this path with us!

If this post has inspired you to learn more about how you can support Amazon Watch through your business and/or art, reach out to our team! We’d love to connect with you and get creative about supporting Amazon defense and Indigenous rights in the way that works best for you.

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