Jan Alexander sitting on fallen 'nurse' tree

Living well with forests: learning with forests —with Jan Alexander at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon for International Womens Day, 7 Mar.

"Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength." GD Anderson I'm delighted to share my dear friend and Close-to-Nature forestry mentor Jan Alexander, will be speaking at the Dock, this coming Saturday for a special event for International Womens Day. We'll be going…Read more Living well with forests: learning with forests —with Jan Alexander at The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon for International Womens Day, 7 Mar.

Taking part in the visionary new Irish Leaders for Nature programme

A Transformative Journey: Keynote Reflections and the Power of Storytelling I’m thrilled to share my experience with the inspiring new all-Ireland 6-month Leaders for Nature programme—a space that nurtures and empowers professionals in all sectors working tirelessly for a better world. What began as an invitation to deliver a keynote talk evolved into a deeply…Read more Taking part in the visionary new Irish Leaders for Nature programme

‘Remembering Our Forgotten Forests: Twelve thousand years of British and Irish Woodlands’- new book by Jonathan Mullard

'So, I say that we had better be without gold than without forests' — John Evelyn in Rembering Our Forgotten Forests I recently had the good fortune to meet US author and ecological activist Derrick Jensen, whose book Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests (co-authored with George Draffan, 2004) had a big impact…Read more ‘Remembering Our Forgotten Forests: Twelve thousand years of British and Irish Woodlands’- new book by Jonathan Mullard