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After receiving such fantastic feedback from our attendees, we are looking back on our first TEDxCrannTreesforIreland event; we was oversubscribed; we had a cutoff point of 100 but 128 applications to attend though we had conducted no paid advertising campaign! Our team decided it would be worthwhile to limit our first effort to 100 attendeesContinueContinue reading “Our First TEDx Conference”

Make sure you mention trees! Here is the link; why not send a submission? This is what we sent in! https://dlrcoco.citizenspace.com/heritage/draft-county-heritage-plan-2021-2025/consultation/intro/ As we commence the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration there is no heritage more important than our natural environmental heritage being as it is the cornerstone of our health, our economy, our wellbeing;We atContinueContinue reading “Why not send your response to the Draft County Plan in Dun Laoghaire Rathdown?”

The TEDx conference was a demonstration of making a virtue of necessity; since a traditional live event was impossible, a young team with its co-organiser based in Hungary yet attending Brown University in the US was able to co-ordinate with our Irish-based team of young volunteers and manage the running of a conference which wasContinueContinue reading “What our Attendees said about our TEDx Conference! THANK YOU!”

Community groups and land managers; we are asking you to help identify places to plant new trees, or replace those lost in the past for our Climate Forest Ireland project with @cranntreesforireland ; check out the report below from the Clyde Climate Forest project; they are starting at 17 % and that is where weContinueContinue reading “Community Climate Forest Ireland; do you know where we can plant new trees or replace those lost in the past?”

“Power is not given, it’s taken. So grab it”, says #Inger Andersson. I have enjoyed listening to her. You can hear her speak and many other climate thought leaders in this presentation for #generationrestoration for #worldenvironmentday that took place yesterday. #Reimagine #Recreate #Restore, lovely themes. I feel we can come up with a few moreContinueContinue reading “Inger Andersson and a Youth Call to Action”

I’m spending the day here virtually in #Pakistan; on the live broadcast celebrating this country’s climate neutrality. Thanks to our TU Dublin intern 2019-2020 who has shared the story of his native country’s epic #treeplanting work. Here is the link to the live session. https://www.worldenvironmentday.global/latest/official-broadcast#.YLuG1gmhtIs.twitter. We’ve two trees ready to plant, we may be readyContinueContinue reading “It’s here; #GenerationRestoration #UNDecadeonEcosystemRestoration”

Great to chat with Jane Mellett yesterday of Trocaire about #treeplanting for the upcoming #SeasonOfCreation. I have not come across this Women’s preaching platform before; how useful with so many churches closed during the Pandemic; great sermon Jane on #caringforourcommonhome. #LaudateSi Catholic Women Preach https://www.catholicwomenpreach.org/ https://youtu.be/SPaLANyT86w

Love this Irish Times article today; quoting Prof Niall Moyna of DCU’s discovery saying “Six minutes of moderate cycling dramatically ramped up immune cells in the blood. It also boosted the activity of natural killer cells, destroyers of cancer cells. “Even short bouts of activity can decrease blood pressure, improve insulin activity, prime your immune system”.ContinueContinue reading “6 minutes moderate cycling dramatically ramps up immune cells – DCU discovery”

Hello all; I am doing a cut-and-paste here of some of our Q and As and comments…the list is not complete as some of the questions were answered during the event, I will transcribe them when I get a chance. Just putting these in this safe place so they don’t get lost, we had otherContinueContinue reading “Thanks to all who joined us last evening! Some Q and As and Comments;”