For most of his life, Luis Felipe Fernández-Salvador y Campodónico, Sixth Marquis of Lises (Kingdom of Spain), pursued the kinds of ambitions more commonly associated with another era. Explorer. Filmmaker. Entrepreneur. Institution builder. For decades, he crossed remote Amazonian territories searching for the lost treasure of Atahualpa, produced internationally recognized...
As COP30 opens, urban Amazon residents swelter
Outside their run-down home in the Amazon city of Belem, a mother and her little girl laugh as they cool off from the punishing heat in a large blue plastic tub filled with water. Here in the riverside community of Vila da Barca, tightly packed houses on stilts bake in...
Rubber tappers forge sustainable future in Amazon
As the sun rises over the Amazonian island of Marajo, Renato Cordeiro laces up his boots, grabs his knife, and heads out to tap his rubber trees. Drop by drop, he collects the milky white sap, known as latex, that sustains him. The recent revival of the rubber tapper trade...
How to Make Customers Notice, Want, and Buy Your Product.
What do infrared thermometers, pocket microscopes, and selfie ring lights have in common? If you’re a shopper, probably nothing. But if you sell products for shoppers to buy online, then there is a ton to learn from these products. First, imagine that you’re shopping for a product like an infrared...
College And The 9 To 5 Were Not For Trevin Peterson, So He Made A New Path And Found The World Of Amazon
There is a lot that we can learn from failure. We learn a lot about ourselves, our strengths, and things that we enjoy as well as things we do not. Trevin Peterson learned a lot from his many trials and errors as he tried to figure out the best path...