Stories From the garden
Making the new paper garden (part 1)
“To re-inhabit the places in which we live is not to raze the smokestacks and freeways that we might find there but to fit them back into the larger unfolding of land and cosmos.”
— Freya Mathews
Voices of the earth photography Exhibition
After weeks of planning and preparation we have finally launched the exhibition, our year-long project “The Voices of the Earth" has been brought to fruition! I think it is safe to say the exhibition was a success due to all the smiles and participation from our guests who visited on the evening of the 10th of June.
MY EXPERIENCE AS A CLIMATE AND FOOD AMBASSADOR
We hear the words ‘climate change’ in the news and it often washes over our heads. For a lot of people, it’s something so distant from our everyday realities that even if you want to help you might not even know where or how to start.
IMPACT! EARTH, CLIMATE AND FOOD GROWING: OUR FOOD AMBASSADORS' JOURNEY SO FAR
“Recognising that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come... Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole of creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder.”
— Wangari Maathai
VOICES OF THE UNIVERSE
Much of what I have brought to Global Generation’s work has roots in the group of islands 18,300 km across the seas from London that form Aotearoa New Zealand; the land where I was born. The covid pandemic meant that what might have been a brief trip for me and my husband, Rod Sugden, to visit my 95-year-old mother turned into a five-month stay.