Daniel Mattos

Daniel is an educator, agroecologist, philosopher and artist, spending his lifetime trying to deeply live the paradoxes of values, beliefs, methods and tricks of our culturesights. Founder of Ecotopias Regeneration and Sustainability Institute, Daniel is brazilian, living in Portugal since 2019. Born in Rio, has his roots within the Atlantic Rainforest “Mata Atlântica”, studying water cycles between forest and climate. Since 2005 Daniel is proposing an approach for Climate Changes that recognizes the key role of continental water cycles bonded to large scale biodiverse forests to regenerate in-land rainfall by modulating atmospheric circulation. This development would not be possible without long and frequent walks. Before 2005 when he stopped counting he had traversed 25K+ km on foot. Since then most of his thought is dedicated to untrigger the mindset that enacts the false civilizatory dilemma of ” we are all victims of climate injustice”, where he states: “climate changes is the product of a bad societal design, let’s design it better”.