Let's face it, we simply do not deserve trees. We have everything to thank them for, quite literally. After all, they reduce the 'greenhouse effect' by removing harmful carbon dioxide from the air and releasing oxygen. Each and every year, a single mature tree will produce adequate oxygen for ten entire people. They are also an effective sound barrier, capable of limiting noise pollution, and recent research has revealed that they can also help reduce the stress of modern life. Well, we are happy to offer some more evidence from a primary research source, from us to you. There is simply nothing we like better than to nestle beneath a tree on a bright, colorful day, relax into the trunk, and relax, fingers between blades of grass.
Alone? It's great. With people? Also excellent. With a book? Exquisite. With music? What could be better. With none of the above, just the endless pleasures of looking and listening? Yes please. There are few pleasures as simple, yet profound, as watching the interplay of light and shadow beneath the leaves of trees. It's a little like watching the flow of a green river. We could go on, but time spent waxing lyrical is time you should be sitting beneath a big green bad boi.
Here's crunch time: people, being the sh*theads we are, clear millions of forested acres every year. Often for short-term rewards, like silly money, despite the long-term risks like desertification, wildlife declines, and climate change. Earth now has 46% fewer trees than 12,000 years ago, when agriculture was in its infancy. All is not lost, however. Here's a handful of links to tree conservation charities, and if you like what you see, here is a more comprehensive list.
The material conditions for radical change are built through many small acts;
Planting the trees that will feed us as time passes,
Making the friendships that will build communities and connections,
Reading, learning, teaching, speaking;
eating, feeding, doing the dishes;
Moving our bodies, sleeping;
Becoming the sort of people who could be in the world we want to see happen.
Nothing will be different if we don’t lay the ground work. There will be no sudden moment of salvation. Just a building, and a planning, and a trying, and a series of culminations.
Perhaps there will come one day a revolution. Perhaps there will only be the trickle of what little improvements we can make. To me, the actions to take are the same. Create a world we can survive in. Don’t wait.
Make sure you utilize this rainwater! Rain barrels, watering cans, and gardens that use rainwater are all amazing ideas! Rain barrels are a fairly easy DIY and pretty inexpensive. Enjoy this weather before it gets hot!
Permaculture Instructor Andrew Millison visits the largest reforestation project in the world in the Southern Indian States of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka with the Isha Foundation, founded by Sadhguru. Andrew spent 5 days traveling around the Cauvery River watershed looking at the work of the Isha Foundations' Cauvery Calling project, touring farms, nurseries, temples, and talking with Isha's field agents. Andrew then went to Isha's ashram in Tennessee and was able to directly question Sadhguru about the project.
Check out Isha Foundation's Save Soil and its on-ground large-scale implementation Cauvery Calling represented at COP 28, Dubai
https://consciousplanet.org/en/save-s...
Isha Foundation's Cauvery Calling Project:
https://www.ishaoutreach.org/en/cauve...
Thanks to Shubo Biwas and Green Good Labs for the technical collaboration:
https://www.greengoodlabs.com/
Andrew Millison’s links:
https://www.andrewmillison.com/
https://permaculturedesign.oregonstat...
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