Went out for a weekends tree planting with ‘Treesponsibility’. Folks from local area, Leeds, Nottingham contributed their labour at Lower Benthead Farm about 5 miles north of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.
Treesponsibility in Calderdale is a not-for profit community group, based on mutual accountability and consensus. They have a small ‘core’ group of members with a wider circle of people who subscribe to our newsletter and turn up to tree plantings. So far, managed to plant about 40,000 trees and hedge plants.
aims are to:-
1. encourage, empower and enable people to take responsibility for their own carbon dioxide emissions through tree-planting, as one urgent response to climate change
2. bring back our lost woodlands and hedgerows to increase biodiversity
3. spread the idea and practice of land-connectedness, co-operation and community as a possible future, and the most sensible way out of the present environmental crisis. We can each choose not to contribute to global warming. Instead, we can contribute to climate change of a rather different kind – a shift towards connectedness, community and love of the land. We also intend to have fun, while we’re doing all this!
Treesponsibility contact:
PO Box 38, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire HX7 8YR
Telephone / fax: 01422 843222
Indymedia entries at:
Treeplanting in Calderdale: Indymedia-UK
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/01/304257.html
Treeplanting in Calderdale: Indymedia-Leeds Bradford
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/leedsbradford/2005/01/304257.html
and ….
On Heptonstall Moor, just off the Pennine Way, on open [and very windswept] moorland. I ‘took five’, at lunchtime, to stride off across the moor, to find this Triangulation Pillar at SD951302
http://www.trigpointinguk.com/trigs/trig-details.php?t=3740
more piccy in this project at: http://www.trigpointinguk.com/trigs/view-album.php?u=1529 onwards.
Well, some people are trainspotters, I spot these 🙂
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We plant ’em. They saw them down
Earlier entries on Indymedia and hebdenbridge.co.uk, may give an idea as to why we need to accelerate planting. People protest and attempt to stop [by law and protest] , yet more environment destruction by nerds! The other side of the coin is of course, trying to ameliorate just some of their damage, by us planting more than they fell. If only tree grew quicker.
Chainsaw massacre in Hebden Bridge
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/leedsbradford/2004/10/299660.html
Battle of the Mill Pond: http://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/news/news04/46.html
