Captain Forest is a global movement for a plastic-free, waste-free, save trees and permaculture world!

We participate in the ecological transition through awareness and education.

Our global media platform amplifies the voices of international experts, sharing scientific, socio-economic, and geopolitical insights to uncover the depth of the environmental crisis and highlight upstream, low-tech, and natural solutions.

Additionally, we empower organizations and civil society by offering high-impact educational programs designed to help them lead the way in the ecological transition.

Back in 2018, during my MBA in INSEAD, a school surrounded by a beautiful forest, I created a platform that I called Captain Forest to allow my classmates to buy/sell secondhand goods and reduce waste around the campus.

I had chosen the “Captain Forest” name because forests are perfect ecosystems where waste becomes food—no piles of dead bodies, no trash.

Captain Forest today

Our current globalized socio-economic model has enormous environmental and social costs. It is based on the mass consumption of single-use (plastic) products resulting in severe pollution, resource depletion, and biodiversity loss.

Replacing plastic with another material is often not the solution. Indeed, for instance, the mass use of cardboard would be responsible for even more deforestation. Likewise, mass use of glass would result in sand overuse.

Instead, we could encourage sobriety (i.e., reasonable consumption) and create circular and reuse economies, where products are made in sustainable materials for long-term use and waste are eliminated at the source and become reusable resources.

Besides, in our globalized system, food production is one of the most polluting industries responsible for deforestation, soil destruction, water pollution, and biodiversity loss.

In a context of desertification, mass species extinction, and mass poverty, why not develop local and resilient economies capable of producing locally, autonomously, and naturally part of their own consumption? Permaculture is undoubtedly part of the solution to the current environmental and social crisis.

I believe zero-waste and permaculture are two sides of the same coin. One is based on consumption reduction and long-term use of sustainable products, and the other is based on interaction with nature and community living. Both rely on do-it-yourself, sobriety, and autonomy, resulting in local economic and environmental resilience as well as social harmony.”