Popular Streaming Show Conscious Living® Airs Fourth Season on PBS Stations Starting in June

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Husband and Wife Team Bianca and Michael Alexander Travel the Globe to Inspire Viewers to Live More Mindfully While Eating, Shopping, Traveling, and more!

Los Angeles, California – The past year in quarantine has forced many of us to think more consciously about the impact everyday choices have on our health, humanity and the sustainability of the planet. As we emerge cautiously from isolation and venture beyond our insulated pods and cocoons, Conscious Living invites viewers to explore the world more mindfully.

With a successful career as a Hollywood entertainment attorney and Emmy-winning on-camera TV journalist, yogi Bianca Alexander felt called to create more uplifting TV programming. Combined with her husband Michael’s lifelong commitment to the environment and decades of experience as a holistic entrepreneur, vegan chef, and filmmaker, they were both eager to be the change and harness the power of storytelling to help create a more just and sustainable world. Hence, they created the popular Amazon Prime streaming show Conscious Living that will debut its fourth season on PBS stations across the US starting this month. Notable premiere dates include Los Angeles on KVCR on June 7, San Francisco on KQED on June 15, Houston on KUHT on June 12, Washington, DC on WHUT on June 27 and many more.

Distributed by NETA and airing nationally on PBS stations (check local listings) and streaming now on the PBS app, Conscious Living is an exciting lifestyle series that travels the globe on a hunt for what it takes to be a more mindful human – from unique yoga and wellness adventures to mouthwatering vegan street food, sustainable eco-fashion and design, and uplifting spiritual transformation.

With the planet in peril, humanity faces extinction unless we evolve and learn to coexist with Mother Nature, society, and each other. The media we consume is an important part of the mindful revolution. This led Bianca and Michael to conceive Conscious Living on a beach in Bali during their honeymoon in 2004.

During a year-long spiritual sabbatical in the healing vortex of Sedona, Arizona, Michael and Bianca produced the first episodes of Conscious Living. They launched the show to serve as a catalyst for the global awakening toward mindfulness that’s currently sweeping the planet.

“We are part of a new global paradigm shift guided by spirituality, sustainability, and equal justice for all. Conscious Living celebrates choice: the choice to focus our energy on what we wish to create in the world and to take positive steps each day towards that vision. Whether it’s adopting a more holistic plant-based diet, living and traveling sustainably, or raising your vibration through meditation and yoga, in order to heal the planet, we first have to heal ourselves,” notes Bianca. “While how we travel is important – we offset our carbon, drive an electric car, travel via train, subway, bike and foot wherever possible and follow a plant-based diet – we’re far from perfect. The show documents our journey of discovery – celebrating progress, not perfection. As the pandemic has taught us, every choice can make a difference in our collective wellbeing.” added Michael.

Since launching Conscious Living, they’ve produced hundreds of inspiring stories at beautiful destinations, like a Zen hot springs meditation retreat near Big Sur, California and an Ayurvedic yoga detox in the Himalayas. The show also gives viewers front-row seats to ethical cultural events like an upcycled eco-fashion show in Hong Kong and a sacred indigenous temple ceremony in Bali, while helping them hunt for the tastiest vegan street food from Singapore to Washington, D.C.

The premiere episode takes place in Germany where the dynamic duo takes a walk on the mindful side of one of the most eclectic cities in Europe: Berlin. From live music in historic Tiergarten Park just steps from the Brandenburg Gate to incredible back-alley vegan eats, Berlin’s a gift that keeps on giving. Its complex history creates a beautiful tapestry of diverse cultures and experiences, from a pop-up ethical fashion runway show to a tasty plant-based take on Germany’s beloved currywurst. Join this conscious couple as they train, bike, and hike their way through a surprisingly sustainable city.

Future episodes take viewers on a wild adventure that includes: a visit to the wellness paradise of Bali; spiritual seeking in Rishikesh, India, Charlottesville, Virginia, Sedona and New York City; a vegan Mexican fiesta and yoga surfing trip in Maui; glamping in upstate New York; sustainable art exhibits from Japan and Italy to Chicago’s South Side; exploring the spiritually transforming effects of music at a Kirtan festival in Joshua Tree; raw vegan gelato in Rome; discovering the oldest Zen monastery and the art of Feng Shui in California; disappearing diabetes with an African American pastor in DC; escaping to the Himalayas and Umbria, Italy, for a digital detox; discovering a more sustainable future in eco-chic Singapore and finding hope in the midst of despair from a prison in Oregon to the gritty streets of Oakland.

Bianca and Michael are honored to air the next broadcast season of Conscious Living nationally on PBS stations starting this month. Take the journey with Conscious Living as they travel the mindful path to a brighter tomorrow.

 Market  Channel  First Airing Time 
Los Angeles   KVCR  6/7/2021  6:00 PM
Los Angeles   KVCR  6/13/2021  7:00 PM
 San Francisco  KQED  6/15/2021  12:30 AM
San Francisco   KQEH  6/15/2021  12:30 AM
Houston   KUHT  6/12/2021  5:00 AM
 Washington, DC WHUT   6/27/2021  4:30 AM
 Washington, DC  WHUT  6/27/2021  1:00 PM
Washington, DC   WHUT  6/27/2021  1:30 PM
DC,MD, VA  MPT   8/15/2021  10:30 PM
Phoenix  KAET  6/21/2021  8:00 AM
 Phoenix  KAET  6/21/2021  4:00 PM
 Phoenix  KAET  6/21/2021  10:00 PM
Minneapolis   KWCM  6/20/2021  9:30 AM
 Denver  KBDI  6/16/2021 1:00 PM 
Orlando   WEFS  6/16/2021 12:00 AM
 Orlando  WEFS  6/15/2021  8:00 PM
 Portland  KOPB  6/17/2021  1:30 PM
 Portland  KOPB 6/6/2021   7:00 AM
 Portland  KTVR  6/17/2021  1:30 PM
 Portland  KTVRD  6/6/2021  7:00 AM
 Charlotte WNSC   6/2/2021  12:00 PM
 Charlotte  WUNE  6/5/2021  6:00 AM
 Charlotte  WUNE  6/10/2021 8:00 AM 
 Charlotte  WUNG  6/5/2021  6:00 AM
 Charlotte  WUNG  6/10/2021  8:00 AM
 Raleigh-Durham  WUNC  6/5/2021  6:00 AM
 Raleigh-Durham  WUNC  6/10/2021  8:00 AM
 Raleigh-Durham  WUNP  6/5/2021  6:00 AM
 Raleigh-Durham  WUNP  6/10/2021  8:00 AM
 Indianapolis  WIPB  6/26/2021  4:00 PM
Salt Lake City   KUEN  6/17/2021 6:30 AM 
Salt Lake City   KUEN  6/13/2021  6:30 PM
 Columbus WOUB   6/4/2021 12:30 PM 
 Columbus  WOUC  6/4/2021  12:30 PM
 Greenville-Spartan  WNEH  6/2/2021  12:00 PM
Greenville-Spartan  WNTV  6/2/2021  12:00 PM
Greenville-Spartan WRET   6/2/2021  12:00 PM
Greenville-Spartan  WUNF  6/5/2021  6:00 AM
Greenville-Spartan    WUNF  6/10/2021  8:00 AM
Greenville-Spartan    WUNW  6/5/2021  6:00 AM
Greenville-Spartan  WUNW  6/10/2021  8:00 AM
Greensboro  WUNL  6/5/2021  6:00 AM
Greensboro    WUNL  6/10/2021  8:00 AM
Albuquerque  KENW  6/2/2021  7:30 AM
Columbia, SC  WRJA  6/2/2021  12:00 PM
Columbia, SC  WRLK  6/2/2021  12:00 PM
Syracuse  WCNY  6/11/2021  7:00 AM
Syracuse  WCNY   6/11/2021  3:00 PM
 Syracuse  WCNY  6/11/2021  11:00 PM
Charleston, SC  WITV  6/2/2021  12:00 PM
Savannah  WJWJ  6/2/2021  12:00 PM
South Bend-Elkhart  WNIT  6/4/2021  6:30 PM
Myrtle Beach  WHMC   6/2/2021  12:00 PM
Myrtle Beach  WJPM  6/2/2021  12:00 PM
Myrtle Beach  WUNU  6/5/2021  6:00 AM
Myrtle Beach  WUNU  6/10/2021  8:00 AM
Greenville-New Bern    WUND  6/5/2021  6:00 AM
Greenville-New Bern  WUND  6/10/2021  8:00 AM
Greenville-New Bern  WUNK  6/5/2021  6:00 AM
Greenville-New Bern  WUNK  6/10/2021  8:00 AM
Greenville-New Bern  WUNM 6/5/2021   6:00 AM
Greenville-New Bern  WUNM  6/10/2021  8:00 AM
Sioux Falls, SD  KSMN  6/20/2021  9:30 AM
Augusta  WEBA  6/2/2021  12:00 PM
 Eugene  KEPB  6/17/2021  1:30 PM
Eugene  KEPB  6/6/2021  7:00 AM
Eugene  KOAC  6/17/2021  1:30 PM
Eugene  KOAC  6/6/2021  7:00 AM
Monterey-Salinas  KQET  6/15/2021  12:30 AM
Wilmington  WUNJ 6/5/2021   6:00 AM
Wilmington  WUNJ  6/10/2021  8:00 AM
Bend, OR  KOAB  6/17/2021  1:30 PM
Bend, OR  KOABD   6/6/2021  7:00 AM
Fairbanks  KUAC  6/6/2021  2:00 AM
Fairbanks  KUAC  6/5/2021  8:00 PM

wellyou Launches 1500 City Scavenger Hunt, the World’s Largest, with Wellness Challenges for Physical, Mental and Social Well-Being, on June 19

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Berlin, Germany – As much of the planet is waking up from our long global nightmare of COVID-19, many are finding that this time of stress and limited mobility has deeply affected their physical, mental, and social well-being. Enter wellyou, an app startup that combines the best gamified science-based wellness activities to provide users with the knowledge and tools to create a sustainably happier and healthier life. wellyou are launching their scavenger hunt, the world’s largest, in 1500 cities across the globe on June 19 to engage users in a fun adventure where all the players win as they improve their bodies and minds, and strengthen and enlarge their social bonds.

wellyou founders Adam Schuster and Amelia Strzepek were about to launch the wellyou app in March 2020 when COVID-19 shut down their plans. “We were so devastated by what was going on, but we hunkered down, like everyone else, to be safe and take the time to reevaluate,” notes Amelia. Adam adds, “then we realized we needed to do something bigger than just the app once people got vaccinated and could resume regular activities. Since we were already doing a gamified app, we thought, let’s do a global game, so our wellness scavenger hunt was born.”

Players will be able to access the scavenger hunt via the official website: www.wellyouworldwide.com. Starting on June 19, the web app will direct them to three scavenger hunt locations in their city daily, and instruct them to do a physical, mental, and social wellness challenge via video.

From climbing to the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles, to running along Lake Ontario in Toronto, to taking the stairs up the Empire State Building (even if they only do 10 flights before taking the elevator to the observation deck!) in New York City, to doing a quick workout at “Checkpoint Charlie” in Berlin, players will be able to enjoy experiences both internationally and locally known.

Once they complete a physical challenge, the app will also deliver mental and social challenges from completing a puzzle to contacting your nearest friend for a quick catchup and so much more. These activities will help users reintegrate into their cities and regularly scheduled lives.

Better physical, mental, and social health isn’t the only reward available in the wellyou’s scavenger hunt! Players are also eligible for prizes from numerous global and independent health, wellness, and sustainable brands including Freeletics, HUM Nutrition, Cognifit, and many more, with new brands coming into the game all the time.

Due to the setbacks and trials of the past year, caring for one’s wellbeing has never been more important. It has become essential that everyone focuses on keeping their minds and bodies as healthy as possible, as well as caring for their social health. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused a surge in mental health issues. According to the KFF Health Tracking Poll, 37.7% of U.S. adults reported symptoms consistent with anxiety and/or depressive disorders in October 2020.

Now more than ever, it is necessary for individuals to find a tool that can guide them towards a happier, more fulfilled life. With the coming of summer and with vaccinations well underway around the world, many people are realizing that the time is right to take real action for their well-being. wellyou are excited to offer the no longer homebound residents of 1500 cities a fun and social way to get back into top physical and mental form after this long challenging time.

Torii, Tinder For Real Estate, Announces Seed Round from Noted VCs

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Boston, MA – May 20, 2021 – Torii, a next-generation real estate brokerage with an app that allows users to search for homes via a Tinder-like interface (swipe right to match with your perfect home), are thrilled to announce a successful seed round of venture funding from a number of noted VCs.

Born out of the frustration of Torii’s CEO James Rogers’ experience with an ineffectual and archaic system, he founded Torii to reimagine the entire way people buy homes from top to bottom, search to close. With Torii, homebuyers have access to helpful tools in the Torii app, work with a dedicated agent and a whole team behind them, get their closing costs refunded (averaging around $7500!), and then get a personalized Move-In Survival Kit (with toiletries and cleaners, plus other fun and must-have items that are probably still packed away) to smooth their move!

The company has just completed a $3.2m Seed Round and are excited to announce some notable investment including $1m from Lookout founder Kevin Mahaffey’s SNR.VC, $1m from noted crypto hedge fund founder Dan Matuszewski’s CMS Holdings, $1m from longtime noted investor Jason Calacanis’ LAUNCH, and around $200k from smaller accredited investors.

This is in addition to a successful $1.4m Pre-Seed round in 2019 that saw an investment of $1.1m from Calacanis’ LAUNCH Accelerator and $310k from the founders’ actual friends and family.

The site launched in 2018 at first offering sales in their HQ location, Boston, but have since added the Bay Area in California, and they just launched in the Los Angeles area last month.

Even with residential real estate in an extreme seller’s market, Torii’s licensed real estate team continuously receives 5-star reviews for their flexibility, responsiveness, knowledge of the real estate market, and their ability to advise their clients on making offers that win and close. Torii’s intuitive platform allows users to search for a property, schedule showings, submit an offer and live chat with their team, all from their phones.

In addition to a wonderful interface and dedicated, talented staff, Torii’s business model pays agents a salary plus commission (instead of the typical real estate commission-only structure) and uses the buyer’s agent commission to pay their buyer’s closing costs, saving clients an average of $7500 per transaction.

Torii CEO James Rogers notes, “we’re looking forward to using this investment to continue to build our incredible team in our current markets while adding new cities throughout 2021. We’ll also continue to develop our machine learning-powered search, that ‘learns’ what each buyer is looking for while they swipe through homes, similar to dating app interfaces – what style of home they like, what home amenities truly matter to them, and more, allowing buyers to find the right home faster, while we continue to decrease friction in real estate transactions while creating a seamless experience for buyers.”

About Torii:
Torii has streamlined the home buying process by integrating the power of automation and machine learning with the personal touch of human-to-human customer service. Our licensed real estate team continuously receives 5-star reviews for their flexibility, responsiveness, and knowledge of the real estate market. Our intuitive platform allows users to search for a property, schedule showings, submit an offer, live chat with our team, and track an offer’s progress, all from their phones. Why buy a home any other way? This is the new standard of real estate.

Torii is fully licensed and operates in Massachusetts and California, specializing in homes for sale in Greater Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles.

FT Live in Partnership with MOSS Presents the Global Carbon Forum June 29 and 30

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London – May 24, 2021 – The Global Carbon Forum, presented by FT Live, in partnership with MOSS, brings together noted industry thought leaders, key global business and financial players, senior government officials, and local communities to discuss the solutions and investments that will deliver – at the right pace and scale – a net-zero, nature-positive economy for a more equitable and resilient society. The focus will be placed on the positive impact that investment strategies, financial instruments, carbon markets, and technology can have as enablers of a sustainable and profitable Amazon. The event will take place on June 29 and 30, 2021 online at https://globalcarbonforum.live.ft.com/home.

The planet’s survival is intrinsically linked to preserving and valuing its natural resources and it is essential to develop direct policies, enhance capacity building and steer financial flows at the scale needed, combining sustainability and economic development.

Nowhere is the importance of immediate action more evident than in the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, that is imminently threatened by deforestation. The Amazon plays a vital role in stabilizing the Earth’s climate, protecting biodiversity, and providing significant ecosystem services to three million species. How best to take care of this valuable resource, delivering jobs, economic development, and innovation while restoring and conserving it? Is it possible to reconcile these objectives? What are the best practices and proposed models for the development of a low-carbon, inclusive model in the region? What policies, partnerships, and financial instruments are needed to harness the Amazon’s full potential for the benefit of people and nature?

The event’s sessions will cover such topics as sustainable investing, how carbon markets are driving decarbonization, green bonds and the latest breed of financial instruments for sustainability, reconciling economic development and conservation in the Amazon, transitioning to the bioeconomy, a dialogue on what the business sector is doing to preserve “the lungs of the world,” and more.

Speakers at the event include Todd Chapman, US Ambassador to Brazil, Carlos A. Nobre, a Senior Researcher, at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Sao Paulo; Marina Grossi, President of the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS); Thomas Lovejoy, President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, a Senior Fellow of the United Nations Foundation and a University Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at George Mason University; Daniel Alves da Silva, a Professional Footballer who plays for São Paulo FC and the Brazilian National Team and is a Member of the Earthshot Prize Council; and Luis Felipe Adaime, the Co-founder and CEO of MOSS.

The Global Carbon Forum, presented by FT Live in partnership with MOSS, is a free online event, interested attendees can register at https://globalcarbonforum.live.ft.com/page/1773846/register-for-free.

About MOSS
MOSS has launched the world’s first tradable and largest tokenized REDD+ carbon credit project in History, the MCO2 token (MOSS Carbon Credit), for compensation of CO2 footprints. MCO2 is the first truly global carbon credit token that provides ease, transparency, security, liquidity, and global scale compensation for carbon footprints. In ten months, the project has bought/sold more than 1 million tons of CO2 and raised and sent more than $10 million in proceeds to Amazon Forest conservation projects – this helped the expansion of these projects to 300 thousand hectares. In addition, MCO2 has the highest quality and carefully selected Amazon conservation projects and has as its solid record the largest stock of a carbon credit token: 2 million tons – equivalent to a market value of US $36 million. For more information, please see https://moss.earth/ and their intro video at https://youtu.be/2sVacsinPfk.

Tinder For Real Estate and So Much More, Torii Launches Sales in Los Angeles

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Torii Lets Users Swipe Home Listings, Handle the Entire Buying Process Through Their App, and Pays Buyers’ Closing Costs

Los Angeles, CA – April XX, 2021 – Home buying for many people can be a painful, stressful, and scary process. Born out of the frustration of Torii’s CEO James Rogers’ experience with an ineffectual and archaic system, he founded Torii to reimagine the entire way people buy homes from top to bottom, search to close.

Now, this tech-powered real estate agency is available to buyers in Los Angeles. Torii has streamlined the home buying process by integrating the power of automation and machine learning with the personal touch of human-to-human customer service, resulting in a very familiar feeling interface, similar to Tinder, but with the addition of data-backed real estate tools to empower Torii’s home-buying clients, and a reliable team of expert agents too.

Even with the real estate market here and nationwide in an extreme seller’s market, Torii’s licensed real estate team continuously receives 5-star reviews for their flexibility, responsiveness, knowledge of the real estate market, and their ability to advise their clients on making offers that win and close. Torii’s intuitive platform allows users to search for a property, schedule showings, submit an offer and live chat with their team, all from their phones. Why would today’s phone-based home shoppers buy a home any other way? This is the new standard of real estate.

In addition to a wonderful interface and dedicated, talented staff, Torii’s business model pays agents salaries (instead of the typical real estate commission structure) and uses the buyer’s agent commission to pay their buyer’s closing costs, saving clients an average of $7500 per transaction.

Torii launched in 2017 in Boston and the service is currently available there, in the San Francisco Bay Area, and now in Los Angeles. Their team here consists of a number of top real estate agents including Annabelle Brownell who is a real estate broker and mortgage loan specialist representing real estate buyers, homeowners, and investors looking to purchase real estate. She is dual-licensed to service real estate purchasing as well as mortgage financing options linked to real estate assets. With an undergraduate degree from UCLA and an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Management, Annabelle’s career includes seven years in technology marketing, seven years as a successful entrepreneur, and seven years as a real estate and business broker, including mortgage loan origination.

Annabelle is joined in Los Angeles, by LA native Leon Townsend III, who started his real estate career at Century 21 in 2015. Always a bit of a prodigy, Leon was the youngest high school graduate in the history of Pasadena High School and received both his undergraduate degree and MBA from California Lutheran University. Very oriented towards community building, Leon is an Advisory Board Member of the California Association of Realtors Young Professionals Network, the co-founder of the Deliberately Fair Housing group on Facebook, and is a frequent blood donor at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Torii CEO James Rogers notes, “we are thrilled to enter the LA real estate market and to start growing our team there, beginning with these two amazing agents who are used to prioritizing client service up to our extremely high standards. While it’s a challenging market out there, we know our team will be able to win homes for our clients along with saving them money as we pay our client’s closing costs.”

About Torii:
Torii has streamlined the home buying process by integrating the power of automation and machine learning with the personal touch of human-to-human customer service. Our licensed real estate team continuously receives 5-star reviews for their flexibility, responsiveness, and knowledge of the real estate market. Our intuitive platform allows users to search for a property, schedule showings, submit an offer, live chat with our team, and track an offer’s progress, all from their phones. Why buy a home any other way? This is the new standard of real estate.

Torii is fully licensed and operates in Massachusetts and California, specializing in homes for sale in Greater Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles.

Crypto’s Carbon Emissions Addressed by One River and MOSS

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MOSS Helps One River Digital Asset Management Create World’s First Carbon-Neutral Crypto Asset Fund

Greenwich, Connecticut/Sao Paulo, Brazil – April 27, 2021 – One River Digital Asset Management (ORDAM), one of the largest institutional crypto fund managers, and MOSS, the world’s largest carbon credit platform, today announced plans to launch the world’s first carbon-neutral crypto asset fund, enabling climate conscious investors the opportunity to benefit from exposure to Bitcoin and Ethereum while offsetting their carbon footprint.

Through the provable “burning” of MCO2 tokens (via UNISWAP), One River Digital Asset Management created the world’s first carbon neural crypto asset offering. For every Bitcoin owned, ORDAM will buy and “plant” MCO2 tokens, offsetting carbon emissions.

ORDAM is the first asset management company to offer carbon offsetting globally.

ORDAM Chief Executive Officer Eric Peters said in a Bloomberg interview. “There’s a lot of talk about the carbon footprint of Bitcoin. We decided it’s time to stop talking and start doing something about it,” adding here, “we are so excited to work with Brazil’s MOSS since they are doing the hard work of actually creating and executing carbon offset programs in the Amazon and then tokenizing them for use in the crypto space. This was a truly needed application of tokens and we’re looking forward to helping our clients offset their crypto carbon footprint.”

MOSS CEO Luis Felipe Adaime notes, “This is exactly the application of the MCO2 token we envisioned when we created it. While smaller crypto entities – miners, traders, companies building distributed applications, etc., can purchase our token on a number of cryptocurrency exchanges to offset their carbon use, MOSS Carbon Neutral Custody allows any institutional or corporate investor a means to offset the carbon emissions associated with crypto assets.”

The decentralized technology that makes cryptocurrencies so secure – mining – requires vast amounts of energy. While a significant and growing portion of cryptocurrency mining is done with renewable and carbon-neutral sources, the full transition to zero carbon mining will take years. Meanwhile, MOSS Carbon Neutral Custody provides an effective way for ESG-minded investors to offset the carbon emissions related to their ownership of cryptocurrencies.

By creating a more sustainable way to own crypto assets, MOSS Carbon Neutral Custody will help One River attract investors who shied away from this emerging asset class due to environmental concerns, with the additional benefit of preserving and defending the Amazon rainforest.

About MOSS and the MCO2 Token
MOSS is the largest environmental platform in the world. MOSS started operating in early 2020 when it launched the first carbon credit-backed token, MCO2, used to offset carbon footprints. MCO2 is audited by international institutions, such as EY and Armanino, and registered with global foundations that regulate the global registration of voluntary credits, following strict protocols.

Rio’s Revered Football Club Flamengo Signs $600k Sponsorship with MOSS, the World’s Largest Carbon Credit Platform

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MOSS has already channeled US $10M in carbon credit transactions for projects in the Amazon. This deal will turn Flamengo into the largest carbon neutral football club in the world.

Rio de Janeiro, April 22, 2021 – The football club with one of the largest fanbases in the world and the largest carbon credit platform globally have come together to help preserve the largest tropical forest on the planet. There is no lack of superlatives in the announcement of Flamengo’s new sponsor: MOSS, a platform that allows for online carbon credit transactions and channels resources to projects for the preservation of the Amazon, is the new sponsor of the club for 2021.

MOSS has developed a platform that converts carbon credits into tokens (called MCO2), which trade at digital exchanges. Whoever buys these credits can resell them or use them for compensation of greenhouse gas emissions. In total, more than US $10M have been directed to projects such as saving the Fortaleza Ituxi, which occupies an area larger than that of the city of São Paulo, from forest fires and other deforestation. As part of the sponsorship, in addition to the resources, MOSS will advise Flamengo on how to offset the emissions of its football team and to become the largest carbon neutral club in the world.

“In Brazil, we have the largest tropical rain forest on the planet along with a pressing set of challenges to preserve it. One is to show people who want to help the Amazon that it is possible to do in a safe and practical way through the purchase of carbon credits. There is nothing better than this partnership with Flamengo and its huge fanbase to give visibility to this crucial issue and how to solve it”, says Luis Adaime, founder and CEO of MOSS.

“We are very optimistic about this partnership. In addition to the financial aspect, with the signing of an important contract in a period of pandemic like the one we are experiencing, we have Flamengo, once again, positioning itself in the social vanguard, as one of the first clubs in the world to commit to the of neutralization of carbon emissions. It is a partnership that will help publicize the work we are committed to for our planet,” noted Gustavo de Oliveira, Flamengo’s Vice President of Communication and Marketing.

The sponsorship contract between MOSS and Flamengo lasts until December 2021 and involves an investment of R$3.5M/US$600k by MOSS. The company’s brand will appear on the players’ socks and on the official bus that transports the athletes, in addition to the official Flamengo social network channels.

About MOSS and the MCO2 Token
Moss is the largest environmental platform in the world. With global operations and headquartered in Brazil, it started operating in early 2020, when it launched the first carbon credit-backed token, MCO2, used to offset carbon footprints. MCO2 is audited by international institutions and registered with Verra, a foundation that regulates the global registration of voluntary credits, following a strict global protocol.

MOSS, the World’s Largest Environmental Platform, Announces Sale of Carbon Credits on ProBit Exchange

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This is the First True Digital Carbon Credit, Through its MCO2 Tokens

Moonrise over the Amazon

São Paulo, Brazil – April 1, 2020 – MOSS, the world’s largest environmental platform, has taken an important step towards making carbon credits accessible to millions of people. Today, it begins offering its carbon token, MCO2, through token sales platform ProBit, an Exchange that ranks among the top three in the world in web traffic. The pre-sale to ProBit subscribers launching now offers benefits, such as a 10% bonus on the purchase of MCO2, which until April 7 when the sale will open wider and tokens will be sold for $15.00. This is the first time that Probit opens its platform for the sale of carbon credits.

The partnership between Moss and Probit allows more people to contribute to the neutralization of carbon emissions and environmental protection projects that are partners of MOSS, but also allows access to an asset with high global demand. Last year alone, the supply of quality carbon credits was less than demand and, according to a survey by Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets (TSVCM) – a group composed of more than 40 leaders from six continents with experience in the carbon market – and the Mckinsey consultancy, it is possible that the size of the carbon credit market will exceed $50 billion in 2030. In addition, several global institutions such as the European Central Bank, the IMF (International Monetary Fund), the World Bank, and the London School of Economics point out that the price of one carbon credit is expected to rise above $100 in the coming years.

A carbon credit is an immaterial asset that is equivalent to avoiding the emission of 1 ton of CO2 (carbon dioxide) in a given year through forest conservation projects, reforestation of devastated areas, clean energy, biomass, among others. The MCO2 Token is already listed on platforms such as Bitcoin Market and FlowBTC. In a year of existence, Moss and its customers have already sent over 13 million dollars to the Amazon, which served to preserve 780 million trees.

The projects that Moss is spearheading include Agrocortex that benefits the Brazilian rainforest city of Manoel Urbano with the work of sustainable management, generating jobs, and significantly reducing deforestation in that region in a sustainable way; the Fortaleza Ituxi project an initiative that aims to protect forests located in one of the most affected regions of the Amazon with actions aimed at the sustainability of the area in the fight against burning and deforestation; and the Amazon Rio 1 project has as a main objective the preservation of the forest for the riverside population who live and work in the preservation of subsistence culture and management of the production of chestnut, flour, and açaí.

About MOSS and the MCO2 Token
Moss is the largest environmental platform in the world. With global operations and headquartered in Brazil, it started operating in early 2020, when it launched the first carbon credit-backed token, MCO2, used to offset carbon footprints. MCO2 is audited by international institutions and registered with Verra, a foundation that regulates the global registration of voluntary credits, following a strict global protocol.

About Probit Exchange
ProBit Exchange is a top 20 global cryptocurrency exchange in real daily trading volume that has successfully completed more than 200 rounds of IEO. The broker also has more than 900 trading pairs – one of the highest in the market.

Key Features of Probit Exchange:

  • More than 800,000 active monthly users;
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Award Winning Short Film Brides of Jesus’ “Inside Me” Michael Rozon Remix Out Now

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March 16, 2021 – Los Angeles, CA – Brides of Jesus, the eponymous band in the Blacklist celebrated feature script Brides of Jesus, and the award-winning short film, “Brides of Jesus – Inside Me,” just released a remix to their recent single, “Inside Me” here. This “Dub Thief” remix was done by noted producer Michael Rozon (mixing, effects) and the film’s writer/director/producer Joe Bartone (arranging, synths). Rozon is widely known for his work producing and engineering a variety of musical artists including The Melvins, Ministry, Jarboe of The Swans, Robin Zander of Cheap Trick, David Yow of The Jesus Lizard, Gene Loves Jezebel, Wayne Hussey of The Mission, and Sisters of Mercy.

For this remix Rozon goes with the more pop side of his dark electronic sound that compliments the original production sung in the track and short film by musician/actresses Kathryn Jurbala and Natalie Von Kirk who lead the titular band in the short. Drums on the original track were laid down by actor/drummer Stephen Martin, the short’s band’s drummer. The rest of the original track was recorded by the film’s writer/director/producer Joe Bartone who also wrote and arranged all the music in the short.

While the short is only a small look into the world of Brides of Jesus, it’s been a fantastic proof of concept for the feature film. The short has won 18 awards at festivals including the Independent Shorts Awards, the New York Movie Awards, the Venice Film Awards, the Hollywood Gold Awards, the Indie Short Fest, the Culver City Film Festival and others. The feature script has also generated laurels with the Beverly Hills Film Festival, the Glendale International Film Festival, and the Rhode Island International Film Festival.

The film centers on the young nun led New England Punk Rock girl group, Brides of Jesus, who get sucked into dirty doings by the monsignor and the Knights of Columbus in this comic book style comedy thriller. Bandmates CC and Tigre fall in love as they fight the evil cleric and his henchman to clear their names for the Mother Superior’s murder. The movie has the grit and women led music and sexuality of The Runaways plus the comic book vibe and action of Sin City and New England’s issues with Catholicism in as seen in Spotlight.

The lead creatives on the project are musician/composer/director/screenwriter/producer Joe Bartone, who based the film on his experiences growing up in the heavily Catholic community in Rhode Island, which he escaped by diving deeply into the state’s influential music scene that birthed artists including The Throwing Muses, The Cowsills, and Les Savy Fav. He is joined by his co-director/producer/cinematographer/editor Jose Zambrano Cassella who brings experience from directing four features, music videos for artists like Shakira, and over 600 national and international brand commercials.

While the short continues to rack up laurels internationally, Joe, Jose and their team are actively looking for financing for the full-length film, which, as Joe notes, “now is the perfect time for a film about young women fighting an unfair system while falling in love with each other, making great music and saving the day, against a backdrop of comic book influenced production design.”

Emotional Intelligence Ventures Announces Their Qualification of a Regulation A+ Public Stock Offering

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New York, NY (March 31, 2021) – Emotional Intelligence Ventures (Ei.Ventures or Ei), Inc, the leader in all-natural psychedelic medicine development, today announced that it has been qualified by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list a $50 million exempt public stock offering using the Regulation A+ Tier 2 framework. This is only the second public stock offering in the psychedelic medicine space in the U.S. and the first for a company developing products only from all-natural botanical material. A Regulation A+ offering allows for retail investors to invest in pre-public and private companies. The net proceeds of the offering will be used to accelerate the development and distribution of Ei’s medicinal and functional mushroom product lines.

Ei.Ventures is launching this offering as the public needs real access to novel therapies that can reverse, heal, and treat chronic mental health disorders. Ei is the only company poised to bring botanical psychedelic therapies, functional plant medicines, and integrative technology to the market in an acceptable time frame of under 2 years. Due to Covid, lockdowns, and the economic impact of the pandemic, the state of Americans’ mental health has declined significantly over the past year. Ei.Ventures’ solutions need to come to the market as soon as possible and Ei wants to give the retail-investing public a chance to participate in the upside potential of this exciting new field of healthcare.

“While we have raised money with our friends & family and private placement raises, we are so committed to the unaccredited investor, that we’ve engaged with the SEC for a Reg A+,” said David Nikzad, founder and CEO of Ei.Ventures. “As I’ve been fortunate to invest early in numerous companies like Airbnb, Betterment, and Vidyard, and three equity crowdfunding platforms (WeFunder, RealCrowd, Republic), I’m really passionate about democratizing investment opportunities so any investor can reap the rewards, and take all of the risks of early investment in game-changing companies.”

“We believe that this offering may be the first time an all-natural psychedelic medicine project received approval to access the public U.S. markets and we are excited to continue to pursue our capital markets pathway in the U.S. and Canada” Nikzad continued. “This can potentially set a precedent for others in the industry.”

About Ei.Ventures
Empowering mental wellness through psychoactive compounds and technology, Ei.Ventures’ has the largest psychedelic compound library in the world. Our mission is to provide real access to these sacred medicines and compounds to the billion people world-wide suffering from persistent mental health disorders.

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