An environmental initiative of Mata Amritanandamayi Math
This film “outlines forest expert Dr. Akira Miyawaki’s disaster prevention plan to create authentic, self-sustaining tide embankment forests that will survive even stronger tsunamis and protect lives. Through interviews with Dr. Miyawaki and simple animations, the video demonstrates the problems … Continued
Monty Don’s series on gardens around the world begins with a fascinating episode on chinampas, the ‘floating gardens’ of Mexico City which go back to the Aztecs, and features the ‘organoponicos‘ (kitchen gardens) and ‘huertas‘ that enabled Cuba to survive … Continued
This is the story of D. Saravanan, a true environmentalist at heart, who dedicated nearly 25 years of his life to turning barren land into a green luscious forest spread over 100 acres, now known as the Aranya Forest and … Continued
‘Parklets’ are areas in streets that have been reclaimed for plants. You can find them all over Europe, in Scotland and even in Hackney. See this Guardian article.
Agroforestry, or forest gardening, as practised in Dartington by Martin Crawford. For a longer explanation see:– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFbcn06h8w4 NEW See:– International Forest Garden / Food Forest Symposium, Online 31 May-4 June 2021 and on-demand
Blue Cross animal rehoming centre has organized a series of tree planting days at their property near Burford. For more details contact Lucy Staveley – there are thousands of trees to plant!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-latin-america-58743367 Large parts of South America are facing the most severe drought in nearly a century. At threat is one of the largest waterways in the region, the Paraná water system that millions of people in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina … Continued
Saturday September 18th free event – plant trees with us! See this Woodland Trust page. Mead is a new forest planted by young people in Derbyshire. The Young People’s Forest at Mead is located right on the southern edge of … Continued
Judi Dench shares her passion for trees in a BBC film from 2017, together with experts who show how trees communicate above and below ground.
Join a tour of Senegal, where one man has encouraged the planting of millions of mangrove trees to protect the environment and rice plantations. “I track down and find Haidar el Ali, an interesting character who has been the minister … Continued
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