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Johannes Schwegler is a pragmatic visionary, timber engineer and the founder of the Non-Profit Organization Fairventures Worldwide. Johannes as well as his partners and friends in Borneo developed a program to fight one of our biggest issues nowadays. The deforestation of rainforest in the global south. Starting the "One million trees" project his team and many Indonesian small scale farmers already planted more than 1 million trees not only to save the rainforest but also to secure the farmers livelihood. Will they be able to reach their next goal of 100 million trees for Borneo?

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Johannes Schwegler is a pragmatic visionary, entrepreneur, craftsman and timber engineer. He grew up on a farm in Southern Germany and went to the tropical rain forests as a young volunteer and later as a professional. In cooperation with friends in Borneo, he developed a program for farmers to engage in forst landscape restoration. For Johannes, TEDx is a both inspiring and entertaining place for listening and learning. He is excited about the opportunity to share his story on this platform. Johannes wants to connect the dots in a complex world. He tries to create room for changes along the entire timber value chain though building lon term, interorganizational cooperation based on trust and mutual benefit. “We promote solidarity and do business in a way that benefits everyone, so that greed for profit and exploitation of nature and people will cease to exist.“ This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx