A big part of my PhD work is documenting, making explicit, the decisions I have made in my forest-art-ecology-politics project and one leading arts-land educator has pointed out that its important to trace the origins of such projects, as they often begin well before a creative arts PhD is undertaken.
Close to Nature continuous cover forest management
First International Forest Day: social media and films show how 7 billion of us tied to health of our forests
Today is the first international day to globally celebrate our worlds forests. While we are all aware of the need to attend to our forests urgently, today is about the stories we create about our forests, the values we hold dear. The UN has since the International Year of the Forest in 2011 been reaching out to people across the world to ask them to show and tell us all about the forests that support their local environments.
St Patrick’s day 2013: handing over Ireland’s forests
the significant countrywide potential in creating permanent forests in Ireland, for far greater ecological (and economic benefits) is as yet, still far from being generally recognised.