ABOUT GREENDIOSA

We are an agency of change that seeks to incorporate sustainability in people and brands, forming agents of change in pursuit of a common well-being, taking the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as its axis.

With Green Diosa we are looking for people like you who want to make a positive difference and be part of the change that we need in the world. A change in lifestyle, in the way we consume, the things that we produce; a change in the way of making a business successful and profitable but one that generates a triple impact, that is, not only economic, but also has an environmental and social impact.

Our challenge is to deepen the awareness that we are all nature and that together we can build communities committed to loving planet earth.

For this reason, we want to empower you and train you as an agent of change, an eco-leader and that you leave a positive mark on the world in a respectful way with planet earth.

Our motto is: “If you take care of the planet, the planet takes care of you.”

ABOUT OUR FOUNDER

Hi, I’m Marianne Martinez Riekes, founder of Green Diosa.

I am a lawyer specialising in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development. I’ve had a long career (more than 20 years) in the world of sustainability and that is why I decided to enhance my experience helping people like you and brands (entrepreneurs and companies) to incorporate sustainability in their daily lives and in the way of doing business.

At Green Diosa, I would like to help you learn and connect with nature in order to create a more sustainable future that works for everyone and leaves a positive footprint on the planet.

GREEN DIOSA was born from my passion for environmental issues influenced by my permanent contact with nature since I was a child.

I’m from Tucumán, a province in the northeast of Argentina but I’m now living in Buenos Aires. I’m the third of four daughters, my mother is Brazilian and my father is Argentine.

Growing up in Tucumán, with my sisters, we spent our childhood in the countryside where we enjoyed the birdsong, hiding in the long grass to watch the animals especially the pheasants. We spent our day on horseback and we loved to gallop. My horse was called ‘Chocolate’ and we named our donkey ‘Juanito’. I loved climbing trees, particularly a fig tree. We would splash about in a lake where the animals bathed and drank water or under a fountain of natural spring water near a school on the way home.

Marianne on the farm in Tucumán, Argentina (photo © Green Diosa)

Also we would play hide and seek in the reed beds and trek to the mountain dreaming about thousands of adventures. Battles with dried cow dung were the best!! I remember the naps under a tree, the parties on August 30th that my mum and dad would organise to remember my late grandfather and residents in the ‘campo’ like Juan Domingo dedicating songs to him. Thousands of great memories associated with nature, peace, tranquility of the ‘Park of Guayacanes’. There are many special memories associated with nature on Don Eufrasio’s farm and at La Maga and Agustin’s house, two people from the countryside who worked with my dad.

But not all my fond memories were on the farm. My mum, who is a great gardener and expert with plants and flowers, showed them so much love and attention that they always grew to be beautiful! I think being surrounded by so many plants in my house sparked my love for gardening and caring for them.

When I decided to study law, there was little interest in caring for the planet but I stared various research groups relating to the protection of the environment. After my degree I then became one of the first students in Tucumán to complete a postgraduate relating to environmental issues and sustainable development.

Women in a rural community in Bali (photo © Green Diosa)

Over time, and while I continued to specialise, I had different jobs as a legal / environmental advisor and as a consultant. I was also hired by international organisations including the United Nations, World Bank and International Development Bank to work on projects related to the ozone layer, climate change and clean production. I also worked for the Environment Ministry in the Argentine national government as well as for the Argentine Chancellery on environmental projects with Bolivia.

For the Argentina government, I was legal coordinator and head of investigations at the Environment Unit (UMA) relating to industry and commerce; and also evaluator of Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) projects for the National Advisory Commission on Climate Change (Kyoto Protocol); and worked on our strategy presentation for the the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali (2007).

Also like any lawyer who likes to speak and write, I was invited to give talks at various universities including the University of Cartagena, the University of Rosario – both in Colombia; and other academic institutions in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Chile; as well as talks on climate change at the University of Malaya, and the Islamic University – both in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

With the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Foundation in Germany, I wrote the book ‘Sustainability in the Atacama Region‘ that focused on regulation and rights relating to water in the Atacama desert. With the foundation, we also formed part of the United Nations Working Group on Climate Change.

From both a professional and personal point of view, it has been very rewarding and enriching to be able to share and work with teammates to achieve positive change for the planet. I have always believed that with the efforts of each and every person, we can achieve great things.

So I founded GREEN DIOSA with the idea that the words “green” or “eco” should not be just a name or used for marketing purposes but they should be there to train people and raise awareness about environmental problems and their causes relate to what everyone of us does every day in search of a more ecological lifestyle.

The main message I’d like to convey with GREEN DIOSA is that we are all nature and, therefore, we must all take care of the planet, respect it and love it. We should not wait for others to do so. And we should always remember: