Read my blogOrla Farrell is leading our school project; school children planting trees. She is hugely grateful for all the help everybody and very optimistic we will plant 2m trees by 2020. Easy treesy. Go on to our new website, easytreesie.com for the blog people!
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October has brought the shock of Storm Ophelia. Three people in Ireland lose their lives in tree-related incidents and over a quarter of a million people are without power. For the first time since I started teaching in 1981, schools shut due to the severity of a storm (yes, I do remember three snow closures, all however in mid winter). My sister-in-law is in Lanzarote in record 38 degree temperatures as I write while I experienced 28 degree heat in Paris this month. Farmers complain of record rain in parts of the west since the harvest period on RTE's "Countrywide" programme this Saturday, predicting a fodder crisis. Time for Action.
EasyAs12Tree is full steam ahead organising 2 major planting parties of 3,000 and 3,500 native trees at 2 locations in North Dublin in January 2018. We have been getting superb help and advice. I brought our project to Dublin's third Education Startup (for the third time in a row) and received sterling advice and assistance over a packed weekend from my team, the many kind participants and their very many experts who had so many superb inputs. It was a brilliant event from the point of view of being able to validate the idea with so many people involved in education. Green Schools has set up its Climate Action division and is calling for 20 Climate Ambassadors; they are very happy to know the new ones will be supported by our 50 trained Ambassadors, certified at our Tree Academy in January at our Seagrange Park event out of St. Laurence School. Schools all over the country are starting to hear of our project through the new networks and we have had symbolic Tree Planting Ceremonies in Tralee Education Centre with Professor John Coolahan and his grandchildren along with their school friends, in North Sligo at Ballintrillick and a third is planned for Rampark School on the Cooley Penninsula, postponed due to Ophelia's successor, Storm Brian. During Climate Action week of course we did our bit in St Laurence's, setting up our new EasyAs12"Tree House" H.Q. at our new Green Schools Noticeboard location, making hundreds of Climate Pledges and of course, a planting party; planting 2 native Alders - thank you to the Tree Council of Ireland and their donation for National Tree Day - on a trip to the Baldoyle Racecourse Community Garden nursery. Thanks to everyone for their help, we are "re-leafing" the climate situation one tree at a time.
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