Ask not what trees can do for us, but what we can do for trees

August 14, 2022Books, Climate Change, Creativity, Fiction, Places, Poetry, Recycling, Trees, Walking

Last weekend I walked through a wood. Sunlight filtered through the  leaves and made me think how medieval stonemasons must have been inspired by the branches of trees gathered in arching vaults above them when they imagined their cathedrals. In a modern reversal, in Italy, near Bergamo, there’s a tree cathedral: And, at the entrance … Read More

Good news to begin 2020; Splosh! (to reduce plastic) and beautiful new year lights

January 14, 2020Art, Climate Change, Creativity, Democracy, Equality, Good News, Health, Human Rights, Living Standards, One Green Thing, Plastic, Recycling

So often good news doesn’t make the news, so here are a few good pieces of news to start 2020 with, from Future Crunch (where you’ll find 99 other good pieces of news, divided into categories). One of the founders of Future Crunch, Dr Angus Hervey, says: If we want to change the story of the human race … Read More