Igniting Environmentalism
This damning book should have stopped agribusiness in the USA spraying deadly poisons over fields, forests and towns – because it conclusively proved that chemical corporations were guilty of a massive die-off
Environmental Benefits
We live in a warming world, where growing threats from climate change require climate adaptation. Urban forestry is a key component of any civic strategy to maximise the benefits that trees provide
Visionary Trailblazer
Wangari Maathai is the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She turned to trees as an instrument of advancing human rights, environmental justice and civil disobedience
The Incredible Journey
Once upon a time there was a man named Richard St Barbe Baker whose goal was to protect the planet’s existing trees, to reforest the Sahara and to save earth from environmental destruction
An Environmental Investigator
Don Pinnock is a freelance investigative environmentalist journalist / photographer.
We follow his articles in the Daily Maverick with interest, and recommend you do too.
An Ecological Tragedy
The shot-hole borer beetle could well be one of South Africa’s largest ecological tragedies of all time judging by the number of trees it has killed since arriving in 2017.
No remedy has yet been discovered for this devastating threat. And the clock is ticking.
Mind-boggling & Moving
Find out what trees feel, how they communicate in this beautifully-written book that journeys deep into the forest to uncover the fascinating, and surprisingly moving, hidden life of trees
The Fire-Starter
A fire-starter that’s a dual commentary on how our hubris is robbing Earth of its symphonic aliveness & on our moral inadmissibility of remaining silent about the destruction
Secrets of a Tree Whisperer
Suzanne Simard revolutionised the way we think about plants and fungi with the discovery of the woodwide web. The ecologist’s book Finding the Mother Tree shares the wisdom of a life of listening to the forest
Upturn your Perceptions
Turn your perception of trees upside down. Explore the idea that trees are social beings that communicate with one another through their intertwined root systems just below the forest floor – with Peter Wohlleben, a forester & forest ecologist Professor Suzanne Simard