Arief Rabik & Tomohiro Hamakawa – The Green Leadership Course – Innovation

Welcome to the last webinar of our Green Leadership course series. This time we will have another Impact Hero from Earth Company, Arief Rabik.

Arief is a second-generation bamboo specialist and the founder of Bamboo Village who has the goal to restore 2 million hectares of land by 2030. He wishes to do this through empowering 1,000 rural villages with sustainable agroforestry. 

Arief will be presenting alongside Tomohiro Hamakawa, the founder of Earth Company. Tomo, alongside his team, have helped many change-makers realize their goals by supporting them in making this world a better place.

Arief Rabik – Founder of Bambu Village

bambuvillage.org

https://www.instagram.com/bamboo_foundation/

Arief Rabik is the President Director of Indonesia’s Environmental Bamboo Foundation and the founder of the 1000 Bamboo Villages project, which aims to create economic viability for the use of bamboo agroforestry to sequester CO2 and restore degraded tropical forest lands in dozens of countries. Arief is an expert in Bamboo cultivation, value-added processing, and brokering public and private support and investment in village-level bamboo production. Arief is a 2nd generation bamboo specialist who is capable and comfortable getting his hands dirty helping local producers on the ground as he is working with corporate leaders in the board room and politicians in national capitals to bargain for scalable policy and financial support to turn his vision into reality.

Bambu Village – The 1000 Bamboo Village Initiative is a breakthrough strategy to tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues – climate change and land degradation – while creating economic opportunities for rural communities and promoting gender & social inclusion. One thousand villages restore the degraded lands by planting bamboo while reintroducing native species and growing food crops and cash crops within the larger agroforestry. By building a village-based factory and cutting the middlemen, the integrated forest-to-factory production system allows farmer cooperatives to produce value-added bamboo products at the village level and sell at a fair price, enabling to tackle four of the pressing issues of the world: climate change, degraded lands, rural poverty, and gender inequality.

Tomohiro Hamakawa  – Co-Founder of Earth Company

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomohiro-hamakawa-6802434/

Tomo is a seasoned development professional having lived and worked in various corners of the world from the Tibetan plateau, Indian drylands, Indonesian tropics, to Japanese metropolises. He has extensive field experience working for international and local development NGOs across Asia and Africa, including Kopernik, the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, and the World Bank. He was formerly an Assistant Professor at the Global Leadership Program at the University of Tokyo. Tomo has a BA in Social Anthropology from Harvard College, a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and was an Asia Pacific Leadership Program Fellow (2008) and Innovation Fellow (2020) at the East-West Center. In 2014 Tomo was awarded the Dalai Lama’s Unsung Heroes of Compassion Award.

Earth Company – Earth Company empowers and inspires impactful changemakers who realize for our future generations every year. Earth Company further supports these Impact Heroes for the next three years by providing funding through donations, advanced marketing strategies, and much much more so these heroes may prosper within society.

Zoom Link

Meeting ID: 959 9794 1472
Passcode: 690606