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Your grass-fed burger isn’t better for the planet, new study finds Grass-fed beef has no climate benefit — even when taking into account that healthy pastureland can trap carbon, according to a new study. The Washington Post, March 18, 2025 by Anna Philips For years, ranchers and some conservationists have argued that grass-fed beef …
Here’s a nettle — and a conundrum — I’m struggling with lately: so many well-meaning people encouraging me to “teach an online course” or, more generally, create a greater video/media presence for TreeSpirit. This way my message and encouragement to reconnect with trees and nature in general will reach more people. I’m not new to …
Dead, dying, and decaying trees play an essential role increasing forest life. Even tree lovers may not know the myriad ways trees some label “dying” or “sick” or “infected” or “infested” (with beetles or other insects) are in fact beneficial to a forest. Perhaps you’ve figured this out already, or know it intuitively, but forests …
Lately there’s been lots of media coverage about “helping,” “cleaning up,” applying “treatments” (usually means herbicides), and that perennial favorite Orwellian euphemism, “managing,” forests, or urban rows of trees. All of these terms boil down to one thing: KILLING TREES. The trees supposedly needing human “management” might be healthy, or labeled “sick” or “dying” or …
As reported by Peter Fimrite in the San Francisco Chronicle today, Friday, October 20, 2017: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Little-tears-of-joy-falling-from-the-skies-12293647.php, the San Francisco Bay Area finally got some heaven-sent rain (over ½-inch in wildfire-stricken Sonoma County) yesterday. This was an immediate help to exhausted, heroic firefighters working for seemingly endless 24-hour days to extinguish numerous fires in Sonoma (especially …
Ever been tempted to compromise your values for a few dollars — or thousands of dollars? I’ve been facing this temptation, and dilemma, and wonder if you can relate. After weeks of research and phone calls and discussions with paper manufacturers and printers, I’ve had to make a decision: take (keep) the money — or …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jack Gescheidt, TreeSpirit Projectt: 415.488.4200, e: jack@treespiritproject.com 1,000 NAKED ACTIVISTS OUT SAVING TREES April 19, 2017 — Over 1,000 tree huggers are naked across America to save trees and raise awareness for protecting forests everywhere. “We Are Trees,” The TreeSpirit Project coffee table book features over 120 fine art photographs made …
My job this fine February 2017 day in the Bahamas, if this much fun can rightfully be called a job, was to make the lastest TreeSpirit photograph on an this island in the Caribbean with as many naturists and naturalists as I could gather to participate. There would be hundreds of these “nacationers” — naked …
German forester Peter Wohlleben, author of “The Hidden Lives of Trees,” writes (and speaks – see video below) eloquently and matter-of-factly about trees being far more alive, interactive, community-based and capable of far more nuanced communication than our culture generally recognizes. Wohlleben’s observations, studies and discoveries dovetail with the work of mycologist Paul Stamets, biologist …
AFTER 1.5 YEARS IN COURT, A SETTLEMENT over whether the federal government will fund the destruction of hundreds of thousands of allegedly “hazardous” eucalyptus trees — and also acacia and Monterey Pine trees — has been reached. On Sept 16, 2016, after costing thousands of taxpayer dollars, and preceded by a decade of not-public-enough debate, …
What do living trees have in common with The Living Dead? Many people have been conditioned to fear them both, despite no rational reasons to do so. In the case of eucalyptus trees, particularly in California where millions grow today, no scientific studies show they pose any more danger than other trees do. Yet …
…in the media: On Saturday, July 18th about 75 environmentalists gathered with me to stand up for eucalyptus trees, to challenge popular myths and misconceptions portraying them as, well, killers. We made a daring new TreeSpirit photograph, “Eucalyptus Stand,” to dramatize the harmlessness and vulnerability (to human destruction) of eucalyptus trees which are, despite persistent …
Whenever I show TreeSpirit photographs to a group, I know I’ll get The Question: “Why are all the people naked?” But with this enthusiastic group in San Francisco last week (March 2015), I got a very different first question (I’m paraphrasing): “Why are most of your photos black-and-white, but one was in color?” Way …
I’ve considered myself an environmentalist for decades; a tree, forest and animal lover all my life. But a new documentary film, “Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret” focuses on the environmental effects of eating meat. It has me looking in the mirror and seeing, painfully, my own hypocrisy, avoidance, and denial. I knew SOME of the many …
Whenever someone learns I’m going on a nude cruise — not to mention making TreeSpirit photographs on them, I usually have to clarify two points. First, that a nude cruise is a special cruise ship vacation chartered for nudists and naturists, and second, that I don’t take photos on board the ship, but at our …