Project Wild Thing: The Wild Network

Update from the website: In January 2013 Swarm Partnership came on board with support from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and The Wild Network was hatched. The network is an open, growing collaborative group of organisations big and small seeking to tackle the many issues raised in the film and champion the wonders of being outside.

Also, the film is doing the rounds in the UK so check to see if it's coming to a cinema near you.

(I'm the no. 3,954 above.... just pledged to spend 30 minutes a day outside.)

Plant Life

Plantlife is an organisation that raisies the profile of wild flowers, celebrates their beauty, and protects their future.

Their website is full of information from growing wild plants to conservation and everything in between. A wonderful organisation and resource for all. Love their tag line.
 

Save it with flowers.

10 Trees

I don't want to use this blog as promotional place for retailers but I found out about this Canadian company, 10 Trees, who will plant 10 Trees for every item purchased.

Their website has tons of information about the projects they are funding, their sources for the clothes they are selling and to be honest, I was impressed. Such a great model.

Dr Stuart Brown and The Power of Play

 
I have written about Dr Stuart Brown before, but any news regarding his work on the importance of play is good news.

He will be speaking at the Early Childhood Ireland's Global Gathering for Early Childhood in Dublin from 16 - 19 October.

There is also an interesting article about him in The Irish Times.

Theodore Roosevelt

"Comparison is the thief of joy."

Fly like an eagle

Hypnotic.

Felix Dennis plants his millionth tree

I wish I could say I've planted a million trees. Felix Dennis can, in partnership with The Heart of England Forest Ltd.

Poet and publisher Felix Dennis has plans to "plant and preserve a large native broadleaf forest in South Warwickshire, stretching from the ancient borders of the Forest of Arden – also known as Shakespeare's Forest – south to the Vale of Evesham.

To date, 2,500 acres of land has been purchased and planted with 1 million native broadleaf saplings – about the size of seven Hyde Parks in London – at a rate of approximately 300 acres a year, making it the world's largest privately planted forest."

That is an amazing feat. Full article over at the Guardian.