Go Green! Change Your Energy Supplier to Ecotricity
If you want to reduce your carbon footprint, changing the way you power your home and business to a renewable source, is a great first step. Change to Ecotricity, Britain’s greenest energy company and two rather wonderful additional things will happen: a donation of up to £60 will be made to The Word Forest Organisation and for a limited time […]
Thoughts from our CEO: the new girl
It’s funny really, I’ve been dreaming of this day for so long and I’m struggling to believe it’s actually here. It’s my Day One as CEO and fundraiser for The Word Forest Organisation, a charity… a proper charity! My thoughts of turning the work my husband and I had done in Kenya as philanthropists, into […]
Provenance of the Kenyan National Anthem
The national anthem of Kenya is called, ‘Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu’ which translates to, ‘O God, of all creation’, in English. Unsurprisingly, the original version was written in the native language of Kiswahili and rather notably, it was one of the first national anthems to be specially commissioned. It was collaboratively penned in 1963 by George […]
A Publishing House, a Word Forest and Classroom Number One
The Word Forest Organisation founders, Tracey and Simon West, run an ethical publishing house called Magic Oxygen. In the spring of 2014, they launched a pioneering global writing competition called the Magic Oxygen Literary Prize; it became fondly known as MOLP. It had two categories – short stories and poetry – a prestigious £3,000 prize fund and three environmental promises built into […]
What Does Leonardo Say About Climate Change?
Here’s me sounding like we’re on first name terms! The Academy Award winning actor and passionate environmentalist, Leonardo DiCaprio, produced a powerful documentary earlier this year called Before the Flood. It was directed by Fisher Stevens and Martin Scorsese was an executive producer. Leonardo is the presenter and sole commentator throughout the film and he articulately narrates […]