An impact-driven environmental initiative

Age of Union is a non-profit environmental alliance that supports and makes visible a global community of changemakers working on the ground to protect the planet’s threatened species and ecosystems. Launched in October 2021 with an initial gift of $40 million by tech leader and environmental activist Dax Dasilva in Montreal, Canada, Age of Union supports high-impact projects addressing today’s urgent conservation challenges.

Dax Dasilva is the Founder of Age of Union and Founder and Executive Chair of tech company Lightspeed Commerce. With its debut as a book in 2019 and its evolution into an environmental alliance in 2021, Age of Union brings together leadership, culture, spirituality, and environmental guardianship to support and inspire the impactful changemakers that our world needs now.

For now, funding comes entirely from Age of Union Founder Dax Dasilva. However, we anticipate accepting outside donations in the coming years.

Art and tech are important tools for us to help share and reflect on our mission. They are both wonderful ways to reach people on different levels and communicate through innovative means.

Art has always been able to affect people in meaningful ways and for us, at the Earth Centre, it is a visual way to tell the story of the work we are doing on the field and to also showcase the works of others who are like-minded and share a connection with environmentalism and protecting ecosystems.

Tech allows us to bring this message and information in an elevated manner directly to folks across the planet. It also helps us to create state-of-the-art installations and exhibitions as we look to the future with hope.

Age of Union’s Earth Centre is an environmental art gallery in Montréal that has bi-annual seasons of art related to our conservation projects and environmental topics. On the tech side, stay tuned for announcements coming in 2023.

We currently have 4 projects in Canada and 6 abroad.

While Canada is our home, we also believe that everything is connected well beyond our borders, which is why we support projects around the world that all share the same pillars of action.

We make sure they are aligned with our pillars of action:

- We focus on protecting and restoring the world’s threatened species and ecosystems.
- We work to conserve land, forests, rivers, and oceans.
- We emphasize techniques such as building wildlife corridors and using agroforestry, to protect habitats, preserve the diversity of the ecosystems, and tackle climate change.
- We always work with communities, whether Indigenous or local.

Currently, project proposals are reviewed in an internal process with final decisions being made by our founder, Dax Dasilva.

Our partners share reports every 3 to 6 months, depending on the size of the project. This allows us to follow quantitative and qualitative metrics. We also visit all our projects at least once at the beginning of our partnership and keep close contact with them throughout the year to know how things are evolving.

Not at the moment, but it is something we may consider in the future.

For media inquiries, please reach out to Victoria at [email protected].

We are currently not taking in new projects. When ready, we will post a project submission section on our website with all the necessary guidelines. Stay tuned!

Reading and sharing our content, following us on social media, signing up for our newsletter, and purchasing merch are great ways to support Age of Union. In the future, there will be the opportunity to volunteer, donate, and more.

Not at the moment, but if you feel inspired by one of our projects, we encourage you to reach out to them directly.

You can support our initiatives by wearing your passion for nature at store.ageofunion.com. All of our products are sustainably-produced — and 100% of profits go to our environmental conservation projects.