Celebrating The 70th Anniversary Of Our Corporate Sponsor, Childrensalon

Izzy Robertson at the Childrensalon event

A few months ago, Word Forest CEO Tracey West and I were delighted to receive an invitation from Childrensalon to organise a craft table for children at an event celebrating their 70 year anniversary. Childrensalon is a company with family at its heart, selling beautiful children’s’ clothing. Its founder, Sybil Harriman, was a talented seamstress […]

Improving Forest Cover In Kenya; Thoughts On Good Practice

Tree in the desert by mayidefai on Pixabay

We are pleased to share this interesting article from Lawrence Ogango, our colleague in Kenya – it reinforces exactly why we work the way we do, supporting and empowering communities to plant and nurture the trees that they know grow well in their areas. Recently, Kenya attained a 10% forest cover, half of the target […]

Inspired by ‘The Apologies 2022’ from Big Corp

Simon West looking at some of the CEO's apologies

Recently, my husband Simon and I went to East Quay Art Gallery in Watchet to see an exhibition. It’s an immersive art collection entitled ‘Better Than This‘ and it was created by the incredible Kathy Hinde, Amy Howden-Chapman and Liv Torc of Hot Poets fame. We recently featured a post from Liv, talking about her […]

Better Than This

meta Than This

There’s something amazing going on in the gallery at East Quay, Watchet. It’s called Better Than This and it’s the first exhibition on their theme of ‘climate and change’. It features new works by three talented artists, each of whom has worked closely with scientists and activists to explore the possibilities for hope, love and positive […]

Sir Patrick Vallance Briefs MPs On Climate Change

Image by Enrique on Pixabay

Daisy Noott, one of our lovely volunteers, was kind enough to bring this to our attention; the briefing on climate change given by Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser. She comments: ‘As part of my work outside of Word Forest, I am involved in a project on the link between Climate Change and […]

Be Terrified, Get Active, Plant Trees

Mothers of the Forest Rusinga Island tree lessons

Bill McGuire is Word Forest’s Special Scientific Advisor and Professor Emeritus of Geophysical and Climate Hazards at UCL. He was a contributor to the 2012 IPCC SREX report on climate change and extreme events. There is much that needs to happen if we are to successfully tackle the climate emergency, from making energy supplies carbon-free […]

Cradle to Cradle: A Manufacturing Vision

Change arrows by geralt on Pixabay

Change is constant and as the world develops in technological advancement, it is important to embrace that change with nature too. While it’s not feasible (unless we disassociate with civilisation completely) to avoid every damaging company or unsettling process that creates the commodities in our daily lives, we can learn, replace and think more responsibly […]

Please Join Us for Our 5th AGM

Virtual Meeting by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash.jpg

You are cordially invited to join us for our AGM on Saturday 16th July at 3pm. To register that you will be attending please complete the form at the bottom of this page and we will send you the joining details. We will be delighted to bring you up to speed with our activities and […]