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| Anastasios
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| Gabriel
Haros |
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| Atriplex
Halimus Gretna, Tasmania. 2004 |
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| Atriplex
Halimus Plantation Hamilton, Tasmania. |
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THE
PUNDAZOIE COMPANY
Founded by Gabriel Haros and Anastasios
Anastasiou during the 1980's the name "PundaZoie" is derived from
two Greek words which put together mean "everlasting life".
Haros is a Tasmanian businessman, a former State Parliamentarian,
(Tasmania) and a member of a prominent Tasmanian business and manufacturing
family.
Anastasiou's knowledge of best practices for dry-farming techniques
is soundly based given he has worked extensively in Australia in the
olive growing industry and in Saudi Arabia, creating the Royal Gardens
and growing semi tropical plants in the desert for consumption by
both animals and humans.
He is currently employed as Director of Agriculture on the Greek Island
of Chios, specializing in drought eradication programs for the islands
in the Mediterranean.
WHAT WE DO
The Greening
the Desert™ Program uses deep-rooted, long-lived canopy trees
requiring minimal water to sustain and restore farmland and provide
forest species to sequester carbon and reduce global warming.
These forests are known as carbon
sinks and will survive for many hundreds of years.
Greening the Desert™ forests are not felled for their timber, enabling
and sustaining companion shrubs and crops to deliver regular harvests
in times of drought and where the soil is degraded by salinity.
Reducing your carbon
footprint - the Greening the Desert Program™ is undergoing the
Greenhouse Friendly™ approval process for endorsed abatement
to offset carbon emissions
and reduce the size of its Customers' carbon
footprint.
Selling abatement
- a Customer can buy any number of abatement
offsets for a Vintage
Period of up to fifty (50) years. Offsets become available as
they occur between January and December in any given calendar year
(which is known as the Vintage Year).
Retail & wholesale sales - both retail and wholesale Abatement
Units are on offer. Prices may vary slightly depending on the
size of the order; the term of the Vintage Period and market forces.
Hedging - as Australia draws closer to compulsory trading anticipated
by 2011, Abatement
Units will become scarce and more expensive; thus the purchase
of abatement
will act as a hedge against future price rises.
The Swiss bank, UBS (15 November 2007) predicts the Carbon Emissions
unit price will rise to at least US$49.00 by 2010.
FIELD SOLUTIONS
The fodders and forests used by PundaZoie include trees and nutritional
plants that are sustained and flourish in drought-stressed and highly
saline conditions.
These forests and plants -
- need little regular water;
- flourish in dry and sandy terrain;
- include a broad carpet of ground cover to colonize saline and
arid landscapes;
- retain water within their deep roots that support colonies and
plantations for cash crops;
- restore native flora and fauna and landscape shattered and denuded
by mining activity;
- bind the soil;
- create long-term carbon sinks to reduce CO2 emissions into the
atmosphere, and lessen atmospheric heating from deserts and barren
land.
Correct practices – PundaZoie’s time-proven agricultural and forestry
practices enable plants and trees to provide edible and nutritious
green fodder for animals and livestock, delivering ingredients for
the production of cash crops and harvests and other valuable commodities
for human consumption and medicinal purposes.
MARKETING
Marketing by PundaZoie is conducted in a strategic alliance with carbonsafe
Pty. Ltd which is equally committed to sustaining the future of the
globe for the purpose of marketing the Greening
the Desert™ Program and other sustainability programs and
techniques.
www.carbonsafe.com
Carbonsafe was formed by Haros in partnership with the eminent scientist
John Harrison who is the widely decorated and acknowledged founder
and major beneficial shareholder of the sustainability company, TecEco
Pty. Ltd.
www.tececo.com
TecEco delivers sequestration
in the built environment of man made carbonate, including TecEco Eco-Cements
and Poreconcrete pervious pavement - carbonsafe™ is equally committed
to advancing and developing:
STRATEGIC ALLIANCES
OUR REFORESTION PROJECTS
Greenhouse Friendly™ approves abatement
projects that meet its demanding criteria to "generate additional,
permanent and verifiable greenhouse gas emissions
reductions or sequestration."
A forest sink project can take the form of trees or other woody
vegetation established for "environment and/or natural resource
management purposes."
PundaZoie's™ first forest plantation in its Greening
the Desert Program is being established across 2000 hectares
at property located in the Southern Midlands area of Tasmania where
a range of suitably dry-land species is being planted.
This land was once prime grazing pasture for the production of the
most sought-after, superfine merino fleece in the world but has
become an ecological disappointment as prolonged drought diminishes
its productivity; causing profitability from fine wool production
to become marginal.
Rainfall is reduced - in the past, this district enjoyed annual
average rainfall of about 500 mm a year; however the recorded rainfall
for the past ten (10) months has been approximately 200 mm.
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