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Tiny Forests; a silver bullet for Climate?

A silver bullet for Climate; ah, if only there were one! As they say, it’s complicated. “Silver Buckshot”, (a phrase from Prof. Phil Spector is his proposal on how we can change our lives to live longer in a podcast with Dan Buettner, championing the benefits of spending time gardening for longevity); now that’s aContinueContinue reading “Tiny Forests; a silver bullet for Climate?”

Climate Made Easy. What’s the story with Climate Change? Read the Summaries from IPCC

“Summaries for All” are now available on the IPCC website? 🤔 They are based on the IPCC AR6 Working Group II Report on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, and are designed to make IPCC knowledge accessible to everyone. Read them here: https://lnkd.in/dCJfN67M Many thanks to Helge of Plant-for-the-Planet for sharing!

150 thousand sapling planting concludes countrywide with 500,000th sapling planted marking National Tree Week

This season’s highlight has been the planting of the 500,000th sapling of the Easy Treesie – Crann project with our own teams and schoolchildren, teachers and staff from Kilternan Church of Ireland National School with their parish and wider community, joined by distinguished guests including EU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness, Ambassadors and members of the EUContinueContinue reading “150 thousand sapling planting concludes countrywide with 500,000th sapling planted marking National Tree Week”

Tree Hub Wells Fargo Easy Treesie – Crann Planting Party and More Trees Now Workshop

A planting party will take place at the newly-established Crann – Trees for Ireland Tree Hub at DA Farm with Wells Fargo and the Easy Treesie – Crann team. The More Trees Now (MeerBomenNu) initiative has greatly contributed to the stocking of this Tree Hub during their second visit to Ireland. We are most gratefulContinueContinue reading “Tree Hub Wells Fargo Easy Treesie – Crann Planting Party and More Trees Now Workshop”

Has your county mapped its Trees yet?

Waterford City and County has – and 3 more. Are your county’s trees mapped? See link below for a tree-tour from the air…like mole-mapping to keep an eye on your moles, this is a great way to measure what’s going on with any changes – we are losing lots of our mature trees to clearanceContinueContinue reading “Has your county mapped its Trees yet?”

What can we do to protect our mature trees in Ireland?

https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2023-05-03/5 I wonder what is happening to this bill since last May? It sounds like a great start given that we have almost zero…no zero as far as I can tell…protection for our mature trees since Tree Protection Orders were made “unsafe” after the Good Friday Agreement…