As part of Climate Preparedness Week 2021, join Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW), Speak for the Trees, American Forests, and the City of Boston for a discussion on the importance of urban forests to combat climate change impacts such as extreme heat.

We just love the work of our friends over in Western Mass who publish Orion Magazine. They recently released "Old Growth: The Best Writing About Trees From Orion". (More on that in a future newsletter.)

Join the live web conversation between Robin Wall Kimmerer (Braiding Sweetgrass, Gathering Moss), Robert Macfarlane (Underland, The Old Ways, Mountains of the Mind), and David Haskell (The Song of Trees and a dear friend of ours!). The three will celebrate the launch of Old Growth and discuss the lives of trees and politics, from Gilgamesh to Fairy Creek.

Orion is cohosting this event with The Forest School at Yale’s School of the Environment, the Forum on Religion and Ecology, and Yale Environmental Humanities. Don't forget to register for free!

Immerse yourself in the “Wilderness” of Franklin Park on a Forest Bathing Walk! Forest Bathing, inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku, is a restorative sensory exploration that supports health and healing for all beings. It is part of a global effort to tend to the stressful conditions of living in modern industrialized civilization.