Image courtesy of the artistsWinslow Porter and Elie Zananiri. By Anders Lorenzen Have you ever wondered what life inside a fungus is like? If the answer is yes and you happen to be in the London (UK) area then you are in luck. Image courtesy of the artists Winslow Porter and Elie Zananiri. Showing at the LFF Expanded exhibition at […]
Agism is discrimination based on age. It is usually directed against the elderly, and results from a culture that values youth above wisdom and experience. Despite being a flawed philosophy, it’s easy to understand how the fear of mortality would create the urge to “fight aging.” But if you think extending agist thinking to trees is ridiculous – well, you’d […]
Tree-sitting as an act of protest is much older – and more current – than Julia Butterfly Hill’s successful two-year occupation of a 600-year-old tree in Humboldt County, California. In the 1970s, the first tree-sitters saved the forest that became Pureora National Park in New Zealand. And for the past year in British Columbia on First Nation territory, nearly 500 […]