Category Archives: Rainforest
A Carbon Fixation.
[This is another slightly older text – 2009 – now updated, combed through and, I hope, broadening the contexting of present goals] Anthropogenic atmospheric carbon is spoken of as released annually on a 60:20:20 basis, as close as we seem … Continue reading
Michael’s Moot, an extraordinary meeting – honest, constructive and so much cheaper than Doha
OK, OK, OK, I must write up the minutes of this gathering. In fact, I will call it a moot – Michael’s Moot. He called it to discuss the ongoing deterioration in the global forest and the eminent failure of … Continue reading
“Carbon is at a historic low”
OK, this is essentially just raw conversation, drawn down from Linkedin. I’ve just done a scant edit for flow and added references to clarify terminology. Chat’s still ongoing – I’ve not joined in yet! But it’s skirting around a lot … Continue reading
Sanctuary in the Welsh Upland Oak Rainforests
Back in the days of Julius Caesar, as, for example, vividly recreated by Robert Graves in “I Claudius”, the Welsh landscape was very different from its present stark, sheep reduced panorama. Read the chapters on druidic initiation training to take … Continue reading
The Great Welsh Upland Rainforest featuring Cloud Forest and Hanging Forests
The Great Welsh Upland Rainforest featuring Cloud Forest and Hanging Forests of a range of largely deciduous, native species– a fantastic carbon store and fresh air producer, a thriving mixture of churning biodiversity, a stable water resource, a glorious visitor … Continue reading
Carbon Raining on Forests – but The Prince’s Rainforest Trust Ignores Wales
So I was browsing recently, looking at the immense amount of information nestling in our Global knowledge cloud. For all that he is a pillar of a deeply conservative and frankly outdated and socially backward institution I still rather like … Continue reading
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries, REDD, +. Plus what?
I’m sorry. Truly, I’m sorry. But I cannot help being caught outside the Loops. They all seem, dare I say it, loopy. It’s always “us and them” and I’m caught being outside of both. Countless thousands of humans from all … Continue reading
CSIRO and seeing the carbon for the trees. Or not.
Rubbish That’s my assessment of the results of the CSIRO report as summarised by the Independent last summer. CSIRO is, of course, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. Based in Oz. The Indy reported on their “glossy” pdf report, … Continue reading
Show us yer Carbon
As a good environmentalist looking to see how money can be persuaded to restore the global ecology rather than degrade it further, I spent all day yesterday at the Carbon Show. This annual shindig is run by Michael Heseltine’s Haymarket … Continue reading
The Need for Trees
I have some friends who are deeply involved in the developing ideology of Non Violent Communication, which sounds very touchy feely, user friendly, wholesome and the like to me. By and large I think that it mostly is but I … Continue reading
Five Trillion Trees 