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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With dismay we note the death of eminent doctor and statistician, Hans Rosling. In an interview for BBC World Service's "The Documentary" he castigated the journalist for referring to "Developing nations...", asking her if we were not all developing; but of course. Oh dear, the sad thing is that my daughter mentioned this to me before - she has experience of working in Uganda, where she pointed out that in very many ways they were more "developed" than Western Society. When I visited that country I was certainly struck by the contentment of so many of its citizens that was so apparent, frankly not as visible in our more rushed part of the world. A lover of positive news, I am so glad that Hans Rosling's message of progress is consistently one of the top-broadcasts on TED; his almost 12m viewers will need to tap into his optimistic spirit as we hear this week of the catastrophic bleaching of the Barrier Reef. Repetition, repetition; It's Global South or Emergent Economies, we all need to develop. And to repeat, trees are our solution, who doesn't love them? Looking forward to developing lots of Irish Tree Trails now the new leaves are out and we can identify them easily!
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