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“Note This report covers the activities of both Geoversity Foundation and of Foundacion Geoversity, the private not-for-profit foundation established in Panama solely for the purpose of serving the mission of Geoversity Foundation https//geoversity.org It also includes the management and development of the Mamoni Valley Preserve MVP in cooperation with our partner 501c3 conservancy organization, The Mamoni Valley Preserve http//mamonivalleypreserve.org/vision Building on work started in 2020 Geoversity applied earmarked contributions and in-kind support toward the development of the Borrego Institute for Living Design BILD. Founded and directed by Dr. Tamsin Wooley-Barker, the CEO of TEEM Innovations Group/TEEMLAB and the Dean of Geoversitys School of Biocultural Leadership Geoschool, BILD is dedicated to promoting living systems literacy and, ultimately to the establishment of a unique desert ecology conservancy located two hours east of San Diego on the edge of the Anza-Borrego State Park. See https//www.teemlab.com/borrego-institute-for-living-design Geoversity has also engaged one of its partner institutions, MUSE Globnal Schools, to carry out BILDs first model nature immersion retreats for schools. Here is a music video that Geoversity board member and musician Shea Welsh produced with the Grammy-award winning singer Hila Plittmann in support of BILD. See https//www.youtube.com/watchvt4-vM0VosdE Here is Dr. Tamsin Wooley-Barkers Stanford Universitys Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere MAHB, a Geoversity Partner Institution. https//mahb.stanford.edu/blog/origins-of-geoversitys-campus-in-southern-california-the-borrego-institute-for-living-design-2/ Much of Geoversitys work in 2021 has been aimed at strengthening our collaboration with communities in the immediate area of the Mamoni Valley Preserve MVP and with the authorities and communities of the neighboring territories of the Embera, particularly in the Chagras watershed of the interoceanic canal, and of the Guna of the autonomous comarca Gunalaya In relation to the MVP, Geoversity produced an updated land use map for the entire Mamoni valley. See this report by Geoversity partner institution Redlands University and the Center for Spatial Studies on Land Use Change in The Mamoni Valley Preserve, a model of applied scientific work by undeegraduate students https//storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d32d413139d942d98ff4dd769788fb03 With extensive community involvement and capacity building, we expanded our work in establishing a territorial monitoring system with grassroots participation. This work is funded by the US organization Rewild and the Danish organization, Forests for the World and other sources. See https//www.rewild.org/press/smart-partnership-announces-release-of-smart-mobile Geoversity started setting up the SMART system for forest monitoring which requires the -building a data base for the SMART equipment. See https//smartconservationtools.org Installed a potable water system in one of the Embera communities in the Chagres watershed. Included in the Euroclima video report cited below. In connection with Geoversitys EU-funded Euroclima work a model non carbon benefit mitigation concept originally put forth in the Paris accords supported by Panamas Ministry of the Environment, Geoversity provided wireless data access serving communities in the Mamoni valley and supported the building of a community meeting house in the Village of La Zahina on the Mamoni River. We also supported the development of governance structures for communities in the Mamoni valley. Here is a 15-minute video report on Geoversitys Euroclima work in 2021 https//vimeo.com/XXX-XX-XXXX/ed8b331d9f Geoversity Design, building on 8 years of work promoting and conducting workshops on natural design with natural materials, collaborated with the prestigious Architectural Association School of Architecture on our first university-level intensive on regenerative design using bamboo. Here is t”

“Working in team with Geoversity partners The CityKids Foundation, Global Climate Uprising, and MINGA Indigena, we supported the presentation by Agar Tejada and Iniquilippi Chiari of the Bamboo Ark Mola Sail to COP26 civic engagement. The extraordinary results achieved during those events are highlighted in a post by Geoversity advisory board member David Meerman Scott renowned authority on social media for bnusiness and public relations https//www.davidmeermanscott.com/blog/newsjacking-cop-26-brings-attention-to-rising-seas-affecting-panamas-indigenous-guna-people Here is Geoversitys post on the Bamboo Ark Mola Sail for Stanford Universitys MAHB online journal https//mahb.stanford.edu/blog/hoisting-the-mola-sail-designed-by-the-indigenous-gun/”

“Geoversity Foundation received donations and made disbursements in 2020 and 2021 that are related to the development of Geoversitys Borrego Institute for Living Design BILD which we are develping in tandem with with the TEEM Innovation Group. These investments are pursuant to the development of a Geoversity Conservation Community in an ecologically important desert biome bordering the Anza-Borrego State Park in Southern California.”