Into the Woods
Cursus
Planting trees has become a popular initiative for local and national governments around the world to combat climate change and increase biodiversity. The World Economic Forum recently launched the One Trillion Trees Initiative – a global movement to grow, restore, and conserve trees across the planet. Similarly, the European Commission aims to plant at least 3 billion additional trees by 2030, and the Dutch government developed a vision for the future of forests in the Netherlands, targeting a 10% expansion by 2030.
While expanding, regenerating, and rewilding large natural areas are crucial strategies for creating diverse and healthy carbon-storing ecosystems, there are also many reasons to radically green our urban areas. Trees capture CO2 and clean the air, cool our cities, help regulate ecosystems, improve our health, and foster a sense of well-being.
In this workshop, we will build upon the experiences from the previous edition in 2021. We will follow an ecological and hands-on approach, utilizing nature’s natural reproductive processes by harvesting and replanting seedlings. We will work on creating our own micro forest, employing a layered approach from the soil to the treetops, with a specific focus on the biodiversity of what we are planting.