Professor Suzanne Simard, University of British Columbia’s Faculty of Forestry, in a short video by Dan McKinney, on how trees in a forest interact with each other, and other life forms. You can quickly see some of the ideas in James Cameron’s “Avatar.” Despite the lack of pyrotechnics in this video, take note this is …
…but we must try. Try and try. And believe we can anything we put our minds to. I’ve always believed if ingenious workaholic Americans put as much willpower, determination, and effort into developing cleaner alternative fuels as we did in our 1960s Space Race, we could still dig our way out of environmental mess. It …
She’s risking her life on limbs to draw attention to an environmentally destructive highway construction project, “The Willits Bypass.” That’s a 6-mile-long, 2-lane highway. It includes a 1-mile-long 30-foot-tall concrete viaduct. And it will cut right through a valley meadow criss-crossed with streams and a wetlands. Which means The Willits Bypass project will drain and …
British Petroleum (BP oil) pleads GUILTY to 14 CRIMINAL (not negligence) CHARGES in the disastrous Gulf of Mexico spill (link at bottom). Financial reparations are still being calculated and negotiated, but the first fine is $4 billion over five years. My point: this is more proof – as if we need it—that it’s actually cheaper …
One of my missions with TreeSpirit, before and after making compelling photographs, is to continually repeat and share and spread the word that we humans can’t survive without trees. They do so much for us it’s difficult to fully comprehend or appreciate this fact—and because they seem ubiquitous, we often take them for granted. I …
I prefer to focus on the positive, how we’re making progress living more in harmony with nature, rather than focusing on all the harm we’ve done or are doing. Others are better suited to take on that necessary task. But once in a while, I can’t help but help spread awareness of something awful, even …
If you believe climate change is real, and caused by human activity, read no further. But if you’re NOT convinced by mounting evidence that we’re responsible for heating things up on Earth, then read on. And I thank you for visiting a treehugging artist’s website. Let’s say climate change is NOT happening or, if it …
English author Matthew Silverstone writes eloquently about the benefits of hugging trees in his new book, “Blinded by Science.” In fact he credits one tree with healing his son and inspiring him to write this book which covers a range of topics. (See italicized excerpt below.) I do wonder if his approach is genuinely “scientific” …
Right now, while you and I go about our daily business, 2 young people have willingly put themselves in peril for what they believe in: saving forests and an entire mountain in West Virginia from destruction. Becks Kolins, age 21, and Catherine Ann MacDougal, 24, now live, day and night, 80 feet off the ground, …
See the moving trailer for a 33-min. documentary film about one man, Joel Tauber, who takes it upon himself to care and lobby for one small tree surrounded by a sea of pavement in a parking lot in southern California—home of The Rose Bowl!: http://www.SickAmour.com Read more about it: http://www.joeltauber.com/sickamour.html
Harvest the wisdom in farmer/author/naturalist Eric Herm’s timely book, “Son Of A Farmer, Child of the Earth,” his website and topical blog, all great resources about, in his words, “a healthier relationship between humanity and Naure.” He’s a Texan enduring the current southwest drought. His book’s subhead: “A Path to Agriculture’s Higher Consciousness.” More about …
Dear friends of trees, TreeSpirit Project photographer Jack Gescheidt here, with news that the recent photograph on Sat., Feb 21 went splendidly—the rains stopped, the skies parted and 40 fellow nature lovers joined together to make a new TreeSpirit image depicting our communion with Mother Earth, pictured here. Titled, “We Are The River,” it’s also …
Dear friends of The TreeSpirit Project, Photographer Jack Gescheidt here. Last March, with the help of over 100 fellow tree-lovers, I made a TreeSpirit photograph in The Memorial Oak Grove in Berkeley, CA. Our intention was to make an artwork to save this grove of mature oak trees from death at the hands of UC …