Already making a difference

• Our shared humanity video
• Greenpeace International
• Avaaz
• CNN Heroes
• GlobalOneness project
• One billion others
• Good news network
• Corpus Acrobatics Evolution show
• Transition Towns

Proplaneta acknowledges and offers appreciation to the following planetary citizens for their inspiration and support


A special muito obrigado to Jane Mocellin for her UNDP and UNICEF inspirational missions and to Glenio Baumhardt (in memoriam) for the financial stretch that has allowed Proplaneta much smoother travels.
Adeline Cassin, Adrian Ciocoiu, Adriana Lucas, Alda Marina, Akira Tanaka, Alessandra Vitoria, Alex McCaffery, Alide Roerink, Allan Phillips, Alice Watson, Andre Pizzato, Angela Giacobbe, Bernard Auroux, Bettina D’egmont, Brendan Mackey, Cássia Andrade, Cesar Chaves, Cristina Moreno, Daniel Tha, Daniel Bolanos, Eduardo Seidenthal, Fabiane Pereira, Gabriela Fruhaüf, Gabryelle Sperotto, Giacomo Rambaldi, Frederico Baumhardt, Dr. Hosam Faysal, Irene Bieszke, Irene Kingma, Iwrom Campolat, Joan Anderson, Kartikeya Sarabhai, Katiuscia Fara, Linda Eberle, Louis de Fontanes, Luis Viola, Luis Otoni Schneider Machado,  Lydia Vainer, Lúcia Saito, Luiza Genaro, Marcia Vaz, Marcia Volponi, Maria Paula Schimidt Carvalho, Mark Grasso, Marley Eltz, Marjorie Soto Franco, Marina Fernandes de Oliveira, Million Belay, Mirian Vilela, Dr. Nehal Hefny, Oscar Motamura, Pablo Suarez, Patrícia Messina, Patricia Santos, Pedro Fauri Gaspar, Pieter van Beukering, Prof. Jan Boersema, Prof. Pier Vellinga, Rafael Davini, Ralph Lasage, Rafael Davini, Ricardo Rihan, Rosane Queiroz, Sandra de Fontanes, Silvana Vicente, Steven Rockefeller, Sheila Semjor, Susil Perera, Tatiana Antunes, Tom Helling, Valdir Bianchi, Valeria Valente, Vincent Michels and Yuya Ushida.

"We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace. Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to the future generations."
From the Preamble of The Earth Charter 


"The choice is ours: form a global partnership to care for Earth and one another or risk the destruction of ourselves and the diversity of life. Fundamental changes are needed in our values, institutions, and ways of living. We must realize that when basic needs have been met, human development is primarily about being more, not having more. We have the knowledge and technology to provide for all and to reduce our impacts on the environment. The emergence of a global civil society is creating new opportunities to build a democratic and humane world. Our environmental, economic, political, social and spiritual challenges are interconnected, and together we can forge inclusive solutions."

From the Preamble of The Earth Charter

Our expertise

1. Participatory-video workshops for trainers, groups and communities
2. Participatory-video production with groups and communities
3. Video and documentary production for sustainable development
4. Inspirational speeches (please check our Founder Director's TEDx Talk in the 'News' section)
5. Mass Media negotiation for PSA (public social announcements spots)
6. Communication strategy advisory

How you can have us on board

We are hired on a project or program basis.

For every four paid, financed or sponsored projects, we give back one pro-bono project to society. Please see more under Proplaneta Solidarity.

Proplaneta was created in the fall of 2008 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as the result of the founder's major life change.

In an informal Portuguese, Proplaneta means "For the Planet". And as the name say, we are focused on projects that can make a difference for our planet, even if a slight one.

From 2008 until the end of 2011, Proplaneta was completely mobile. As a home office, it was based in different places at different stages: Amsterdam, Malawi, Barcelona and São Paulo, Brazil.

In the end of 2011 Proplaneta moved its base to the green neighborhood of Botanic Garden in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

In 2013 Proplaneta stablished its second base in Geneva, Switzerland.

But most of all, independently of where we are based, our hands and cameras reach out to communities everywhere in the world. Pro Planeta - For the Planet.

• Alice Watson, Participatory Video Facilitator, Journalist, Photographer
• Alessandra Vitória, Graphics and Animation Producer and Editor
• Karina Miotto, Journalist and Educator
• Kitty van der Gijp, Webdesigner and programmer
• Ludmila Espindola, Participatory Video Facilitator and Journalist
• Maria Paranagua, Participatory Video Facilitator, Producer and Editor
• Pedro Gaspar Fauri, Animation, Graphics and Final Cut Editor
  
• Veronica D'Orey - Designer
  

 

Our values

• Passion.
• Respect to the diversity and interdependence of all forms of life.
• Earth as a finite source and self-regulated living organism.
• Responsibility: we live in a critical moment in Earth's history, a time where humanity must choose its future.
• Absolute belief in every human's potential.
• Groups and community empowerment, collective creation and sharing.
• Creative participatory-communication for education, reflection, action and change.
• Youth and children as agents of change.
• Communication and media as an agents of world benefit.

As a result the program has pushed villagers to take real action. They began adapting their rural activities in simple ways such as substituting maize crops with rice, taking advantage of the increasing floods and replacing chicken with duck stock as ducks float and chicken drown.

With our help, the Mphunga villagers produced a participatory video so the community- based adaptation practices could be shared with neighbor communities that face similar problems through video screenings workshops.

As this project is part of a Masters thesis, the process was methodologically evaluated with quantitative pre and post questionnaires and qualitative pre and post video interviews. The thesis with the research results are available upon request. There is also this published article: Baumhardt et al. 2009, Farmers become Filmmakers: A villager’s experience on climate change adaptation in Malawi, Participatory Learning and Action Journal n. 60 IIED, UK. In the meantime you can view the three documentaries part of the project.

See also Hope on a Red Bucket