Barasch's bestselling study of spontaneous remission, Remarkable Recovery (with researcher Caryle Hirshberg) was the subject of a Newsweek article[5] and garnered wide attention in the medical world.
[9] Barasch's Field Notes on the Compassionate Life [3] a work of literary nonfiction blending scientific findings on altruism and empathy with psychology, spirituality, and a first-person exploration of human potential, attracted the support of figures like South African Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
In 2005, he created a short-lived partnership with Fred Fuchs, former head of Francis Coppola's American Zoetrope Studio and former arts and entertainment chief for the Canadian Broadcasting company.
In 2006, Barasch founded the Green World Campaign,[citation needed] a nonprofit whose stated mission is restoring the ecology and economy of struggling villages living on degraded land.
Barasch, who has referred to his strategy as "green compassion,"[17] has focused on planting multi-purpose trees (MPTs) to address a synergistic grab-bag of issues: restoration of indigenous ecology, poverty, sustainable rural economy, soil remediation, cultural preservation, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration.
[4] This paper voucher system provided a new medium of exchange for the impoverished residents of Kenya's Kongowea slums, directing funding to community development, environmental rehabilitation and health-promoting activities.
Encouraged by this success, Barasch proposed a “Green World Credit” system to fund global reforestation, which he referred to as a “treeconomy.” A second currency was launched in Miyani, Kenya, backed by a community maize mill.
Marc Barasch, in a 2018 interview in Forbes [6] on what he heralded as the “Regenerative Revolution,” proposed a blockchain-based, global “Green World Token” based on conservation and development of natural capital (trees, agroecology, carbon-storing soil organic matter, restored hydrological cycles, etc.).
Barasch coined the term "regenerative enterprise" to describe a proposed business [www.greenworldventures.net] of commodities produced from moringa seed oil and high-protein leaf powder.
A trained musician, he has played and recorded with the Rock Bottom Remainders,[26] a "lit-rock" band consisting of authors Amy Tan, Stephen King, Maya Angelou, and others.
He has collaborated as a lyricist with Grammy and Academy Award-winner Alan Menken, composer of "Beauty and the Beast,""Little Mermaid," "Aladdin," et al., with whom he continues to work on the international Green World Children's Choirs to engage global youth in treeplanting efforts.