Having been witness to the catastrophic elimination of an ecosystem years in the making, a Category 5 hurricane that swept through the Panhandle on October 10th 2018, would have a profound impact on how we lived our lives going forward.
As we drove through Florida’s forgotten coast, a largely untouched and uninhabited area of coastline, tucked behind the pines of the Apalachicola National Forest, carcasses of trees appeared by the side of the road; miles and miles of tree graves, homes and buildings destroyed, and a community displaced and battered.
Several years later, sitting in a quaint coffee shop called Sibu in Costa Rica’s southern zone, a concept developed, what if we could contribute to one's understanding of humankind’s position within our natural ecosystem; what if we could make others see the value of natural assets and investment in nature itself.
“The fragile can become the strong when they find their purpose”