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Ashdown Forest

Ashdown Forest is an area of natural beauty in West Sussex, England. It is also one of the very few remaining areas of extensive lowland heath left in Europe. This rare and threatened landscape is [...]

Witness to Healing

Each year we have returned to this location, we have seen improvements. This year, the area felt more cared for than ever. Hardly any trash was strewn over the land and rocks in the stream. [...]

Sahli Preserve

I have never visited Sahli on a Saturday, but I invited my friend Cristina to experience this gem of a preserve for us to create an Act of Beauty. There were kids, adults, fisher people, [...]

Linden TRee

I sat near what remains of a huge 3 pronged linden tree, now a large stump decorated with rocks and shells, and prayed for the protection of our land and water. On both occasions, when [...]

Mount Sugarloaf /Keeba-Keeba

Today we went to Mount Sugarloaf (Keeba-Keeba to the Awabakal people), about 30 minutes West of Newcastle and conducted our Earth Exchange. The mountain, Keeba-Keeba, has been badly affected by mining for coal and the [...]

Clearcut forest

Three of us were up in the Cascade Siskiyou National Monument yesterday, mostly in the Siskiyous, and we made a Rad Joy bird along the Pacific Crest Trail, made from down wood etc. Left a [...]

Forest fire

I went today to the forest next to my house, which suffered a major fire last summer and is renewing itself. I stopped at the burned fig next to the spring that didn’t grow a [...]

Coal mining

Jill and I went to Bulga to support the community in their music and culture festival. On the way we went down Wallaby Scrub Road which an expanded Rio Tinto Warkworth coal mine will eliminate. [...]

Josiah’s Earth Exchange

(Josiah was 19 months old at the time of the Global Earth Exchange) Wonderful! Did he have a particular wounded place in mind, do you think? From: Henry Timms (Josiah's father): It can be hard [...]

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