I can’t remember the first time I felt it, but ill always remember the first time it dawned on me. very in tuned with nature and Born in the beautiful country of Venezuela in1990 I had the blessing of traveling a lot with my family. Every chance we could get we were either at the beach house facing the Caribbean or on a weekend getaway on the small farm on mountains. always surrounded by nature both my parents really loved horses and animals alike and clearly that had imprinted in me. Being voluntarily exiled in 1999 because of political unrest in our country and migrating to the united states while I was still a young boy made me grow up fast and become even more aware of my surroundings. Like everyone else I went through the motions of going to school, getting a job, dreaming of going to college. But I was always restless, always looking for an excuse to be outside. years later when I was older I had the pleasure of traveling around Ecuador, the Andes, and other parts of South America. I remember my first night back in nature, the mountains, the noises of the breeze, the sound of whistling trees, and howling animals that roamed in the jungle; it wouldn’t let me sleep. and I would ask myself why?

A few days later I had the best sleep of my life and it became evident to me that I’ve had grown so accustomed to life in the concrete jungle and so distracted by the white noise of society that I had forgotten how mesmerizing natures orchestra could be. I went back home that summer and again, moved on with my life, and got back to being a teenager. When i finally graduated high school and was free from “responsibilities” I packed my bags again and kept on traveling, just wanting to be outside. By my mid 20’s I was so in love with nature that I decided to move to the state of Colorado where I had a lot of space to roam with like-minded individuals. It was during this time that I really started to notice all of the things that were happening around the world and it hurt, it really hurt, I could feel myself coming to tears sometimes just from thinking about it too much I felt completely helpless. With Famine, droughts, wars, injustices being committed every day around the world to me it seemed like no one was paying attention as if in some kind of sleep or trance. 

That’s when it dawned on me; some kind of awakening. I could no longer go outside and see the world with the same eyes as before. It even made me feel like it was all my fault and that I would NEVER be able to change that after some much needed inner healing I finally decided that I WAS going to do something about it, that I wasn’t going to sit around and watch as humankind blindly destroys  EVERYTHING that is supposed to keep us alive. 

Like me, I believe many of us have felt that awakening at some point in our lives and felt alone. but like a hive we are millions and so I wanted to create an outlet for more people to not only become more aware of the environmental crisis our planet faces but also to bring old and new sustainable ways to solve them for nature is collective, and so must be our efforts to preserve it.