Champions of Reforestation

By Liliana Usvat
Blog 239-365



By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits believes he has found a way to re-grow clear cut rain forest in Borneo, saving local orangutans — and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.

Reforestation in this case

• created  3000 jobs
• restored micro climate
• grow agricultural crops between trees
• reduce the competition for the trees
• The crop fertilizer helps the trees
• The farmers have free land
• The orangutans get healthy food
• Reduce growing expenditures
• While speeding up ecosystem regeneration

 Fire protection for the future

Here are some other principles of Permaculture

• Create a ring of Sugar palms around the forest that are fire resistant.
• A natural forest uses the space above ground and under ground more efficient.
• Regeneration from fast growing short lived trees species that will restore the micro climate for later species.
• Create a multilayer forest of diverse trees that capture maximum of sunlight to create maximum of biomass.

The result in 3 years after reforestation 137 species of birds appear in the forest.
More rain clouds have been formed.
The climate was changed.

Concluzion

Make sure the forest stay there.

Other Project other people that are behid these projects
Sama Sarhan Reforestation Project Jordan

Geoff Layton

The greatest project I have seen so far on 10 acres of desert salty land transformed in food  forest


China

Western China is turning into a massive dust bowl. Desertification now affects fully one-third of the world's population -- and what's happening in Western China represents the largest conversion of productive land to desert anywhere in the world, consuming over one million acres of land each year. The dust isn't confined to the west: every spring, massive sandstorms roar through Beijing, blanketing the city with tons of dust.

 

 

We can start rebuilding the nature one person at a time one forest at a time in spite of governments and logging companies that see just money in the environment with no respect for the earth.



Links

http://www.ted.com/talks/willie_smits_restores_a_rainforest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LJ8pjOG4pXI

 

Liliana Usvat: Sacred Trees - Dance Tree or Tanzlinde

Liliana Usvat: Sacred Trees - Dance Tree or Tanzlinde

Sacred Trees - Dance Tree or Tanzlinde

By Liliana Usvat
Blog 238-365

In the Holy Roman Empire, a Gerichtslinde (German for "court linden, doom linden"; plural -linden) was a linden tree where assemblies and judicial courts were held. Rooted in Germanic tribal law, the custom has left traces through the Germanic language-speaking areas.
Located in the center of its village, the tree was also at the center of festivities, in this respect known as Tanzlinde "dance linden".

After Christianization, the linden remained associated with justice and benevolent protection, often re-dedicated to Mary mother of Jesus (Marienlinden) or to the twelve Apostles (Apostellinden).


The branches of an enormous tanzlinde, or dance tree, in Steinfurt, Germany, require the support of scaffolding. Dance trees are highly manicured and sculpted so that they can provide a sheltered place for gatherings. They are commonly time-tested, non-citrus-bearing lime species, like the one above.

In many European villages they were the center of social activity—from community dances to court sessions. The bark is strong and used for making textiles and ropes, as well as metaphors for the strength of community bonds.
 
And as the mythology goes, dance trees represent a cosmic connection between Earth and the heavens. The trees helped people measure the passing of time through seasonal changes and became the centerpiece of local folklore around goddesses of love.

The heart-shaped leaves of the lime, also called the tilia, linden, or basswood, are a symbol of passion, and the trees attracted amorous couples seeking seclusion

History

Many surviving linden trees may sometimes retain names Thie-Linde, Thing-Linde or Tilly-Linde, but often simply Dorflinde "village linden". The oldest of them is in Schenklengsfeld, Hesse, planted in the 9th century, in the time of Louis the Younger.

Numerous examples of sacred trees and groves exist amongst the pre-Christian Germanic peoples. The linden is often claimed to have been sacred to Freyja in the pre-Christian period, forming a polarity with the oaks sacred to Donar.

Dance lime-trees, as a special form of the customary village lime-tree, arose during the romanticism and the Biedermeier period time. Now with from May traditionall to famed village dance parties it was danced in moreover especially hergerichtetetn lime-trees ' in the tree '.
 
The branches of the lime-tree were bent in about three meters of height horizontally outwardly, so that on the branches a hölzeener dance ground can be inserted. Beyond the dance floor again upwards to growing branches trained with her foliage work a wide, shady roof about vdem dance ground.