NEWS & UPDATES
NYT Interview
NYT: Despite excitement about new technologies to support climate mitigation efforts, there are innovations that humans have little or nothing to do with. Botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger speaks with Cara Buckley of The New York Times. What can we learn from the systems … Read More
Speaking for Old Growth
Famed tree botanist Diana Beresford-Kroeger has a tough message for BC Premier John Horgan. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2021/07/12/Speaking-For-The-Old-Growth/
Using Science and Celtic Wisdom to Save Trees (and Souls)
An article about Diana in the New York Times: Link to article
How a Famous Tree Scientist Seeks Well-Being in Nature During the Pandemic
We asked famed botanist and medical researcher Diana Beresford-Kroeger about how she keeps healthy this season. https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/12/31/Tree-Scientist-Seeks-Nature-Well-Being-Pandemic/
A Global Bio Plan that’s as simple as planting a tree
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/42767/20201201/a-global-bio-plan-that-s-as-simple-as-planting-a-tree
NCPR Interview
https://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/42765/20201130/books-to-speak-for-the-trees
LETTERS FROM DIANA
To the Citizens of the World
A global pandemic is here. A round virus is on a roll. It has glycoprotein ammunition. it is mutating with the intelligence of a survivor and its aim is death by respiratory failure. We need oxygen. Countries are running out … Read More
COVID is a clear message: we need to speak for the trees
The great forests of the planet hold the keys to life on land, sea, and air. Maintaining forests in all the wonder of their biodiversity is crucial to protecting the health of every living thing. It is why on this … Read More
A Letter to the Children
When my daughter Erika Lisa Maria was five years old, I asked her what she wanted for her sixth birthday. Her answer was simple. “Mommy, I want a future.” Today, in 2020, in the bedrock of the future for all … Read More
Forest as Sacred Cathedral
When you walk into a forest – great or small – you enter it in one state and emerge from it calmer. You have that cathedral feeling and you’re never the same again. You come out of there and you … Read More
Stop Climate Change in its Tracks
Stoping climate change in its tracks can feel like the impossible. The latest science tells us that as of 2019 we have just ten years to halt global temperature rise. If we leave it any longer, it will be too … Read More
The Celtic Alphabet of Trees
The Ogham script is the first alphabet of Europe, in which every letter is named for a tree or an important companion to trees. What is remarkable about Ogham is that the philosophy behind the language carries a way of … Read More
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