I lost poetry somewhere on the roads of Delhi. Somewhere amidst the maze of life, the traffic jams and the incessant honking. I thought it was all over. Then one day, poetry came back to me in the metro. Random passengers became characters. The noise of the streets became the background score. This podcast is about such short musings. It won’t take you long to listen. If you are here or have come back for more, I’ll assume you must be one of the characters in my musings, or I in yours.
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If you want to expand your knowledge about trees and forests whilst exploring ways to help them, this is the podcast for you. We talk radical ideas with guests from diverse backgrounds, delving deep into the policy, ecology, economics, attitudes and perceptions that underpin the current state of affairs, and explore meaningful interventions. This podcast is part of the Tree Radicals inquiry brought to you by The Woodland Presents CIC and Timber Strategies. https://thewoodland.co/tree-radicals/
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Jez meets with Tom Barnes of Vastern Timber based in Wiltshire to talk about the realities of where our wood comes from. Tom talks about the innovative and dynamic approaches Vastern embrace in supplying UK timber to the private and commercial sector. The future of timber supply, our woodlands and the biodiversity they support are all under increas…
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Esmond Harris: The Now and Then of UK Timber
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Do we even need a public service forestry sector? Can we grow quality hardwood in the UK? What tree species should we plant for the future of UK timber? Just some of the questions Jez speaks with Esmond Harris on this month. Esmond is an obvious choice to be asking this questions with, as a former director of the Royal Forestry Society. Esmond has …
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Gabriel Hemery: The Beauty and Challenge of Complexity
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Gabriel and Jez walk and talk through the woods at the Sylva Wood Centre in Oxfordshire and discuss the role of modern foresters in an ever-changing changing landscape. Does forestry need rebranding? A new image? How do we get people to connect with the fact that forestry isn't simply 'killing trees'? Gabriel an Jez attempt to tease apart the stark…
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An evening walk in the hills turns to an opportunity of inter-planetary travel and more.
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Shubhendu Sharma: Restoring Lost Ecology
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Episode 17 of the Tree Radicals podcast, Kath talks with Shubhendu Sharma founder and director of Afforest, about how he is using the Miyawaki method in cities across the globe, they discuss tangible change, and the power of the tiny (forests). With ever increasing numbers of people living in cities and the UN predicting that 68% of the world popul…
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Alan McDonnell: Big Conversations and Collaborative Land Use
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Episode 16 of the podcast and Kath talks with Alan from Trees for Life about the incredible project the charity kicked off in November 2021 engaging with landowners across 2000 square miles of the highlands to collaborate on the future on communities, livelihoods, biodiversity, and land-use. Kath and Alan also get into the true costs involved in tr…
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Guy Watson: Make Trouble, Question Everything
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Guy Singh-Watson is the founder of organic veg box company 'Riverford' and more recently finds himself taking a foray into nut production. In this episode of the Tree Radicals podcast Guy talks with Jez about the importance of embracing complexity, our disconnection with where food really comes from, and the desperate need for legislation in acting…
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Rob Penn: In Celebration of Wood
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Rob Penn, writer, broadcaster and photographer, has written about and researched the relationship we have with wood and its uses all over the world, and in this episode of Tree Radicals, he tells Jez his reflections on our current woodland predicaments and about his native broadleaf-planting project.…
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Gill Petrokofsky: We Should All Have a Say in Scientific Research
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Gill is a researcher in the decision-making of forestry and land use, investigating how factors, including biodiversity and carbon emissions, are affected by the decisions being made in the management of our forests. She and Kath discuss her research and share the opinion that we need a radical shift in how we involve people all across our society …
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Alex Greene: Our Cultural and Personal Relationships with Plants
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Alex Greene is researching ethnobotany, the study of the relationship between people and plants, and in this episode, Jez asks him what this field might be able to teach us about our approach toward plants and the environment as a society, and as individuals. Our Instagram: www.instagram.com/thewoodlandpresents Our Website: https://thewoodland.co/t…
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Seb Cox: Coppicing in the 21st Century and Consumer Education
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Seb Cox, furniture designer, maker and environmentalist, talks about the potential for market growth around the ancient practice of coppicing, the accessibility of social media for independent businesses using sustainable timber to thrive online, and Seb shares his manifesto for land-use. In this episode Seb recommends these great Instagram account…
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Isabella Tree: Rewilding for Future Forests
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In this episode, Isabella Tree, conservationist and bestselling author of 'Wilding- the Return of Nature to a British Farm', tells Jez about the rewilding project, she and her husband Charlie Burrel undertook to transform their 3,500-acre estate in West Sussex, Knepp Estate, into a nature-haven, brimming with life. Check out the amazing work being …
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Andy Murray: Photographer of Tiny Mesofauna
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In this episode of Tree Radicals, macro photographer on tiny soil animals, Andy Murray, joins Kath in our very own North Woods in Dartington, home base of the Tree Radicals team, and tells us about the delightful world of Mesofauna, and the huge role they play in our ecosystem. Check out Andy's amazing photography on his website at www.chaosofdelig…
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Piers Taylor: Woodlands are Essential to our Culture and Communities
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Kath talks to architect Piers Taylor about his award-winning architecture practice 'Invisible Studio', and his ways of working collaboratively with the local community when designing a building. Piers shares his passionate perspective on how forests and woodlands should be a much more essential and integrated part of our culture, and how cities wou…
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Eleanor Harris: Forestry is Always 30 Years Behind and 30 Years Ahead
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This week Jez talks to Eleanor Harris about her surprisingly positive experience working in commercial forestry, and the need for the timber industry and our natural capital to be integrated into our economic system in order to tackle the environmental challenges of our time in an equitable way.De către The Woodland Presents
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Alice Blogg: The Inseparable Inspirations of Life and Craft
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Alice Blogg is a wood-based designer-maker running her own business in the Dorset countryside, who believes in using local timber and supporting independent businesses. She tells Kath what inspires her both in her work and in her life, and they discuss sustainability, good reads, and the types of wood she’s been discovering in her practice lately.…
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Andrew Heald: Forestry isn't about Trees, It's about People
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Forestry engineer Andrew Heald shares a favourite quote that "forestry isn't about trees, it's about people" and draws some practical and informative links to the importance of a people-centred approach and better communication within the industry. He tells us why it’s necessary for forestry certification to better support smaller forest management…
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Marlene Cramer: The Infinite Resource Myth
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Jez talks with Marlene Cramer who is compiling a PHD in properties of hardwoods for structural use. She talks about the importance of establishing and predicting properties of timber for construction and the need to dispel the myth that timber is an infinite resource.De către The Woodland Presents
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Is it possible to balance the environment, economy and people's needs? and can we build a stronger integrated land-use system with modern forestry? Jez Ralph talks about these things and more with Confor National manager for England, Caroline Ayre.De către Media Team
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Can you improve trees? In This episode, Jo Clark discusses the future of our native forests. She describes how research is helping create a next generation of broadleaved trees that produce better quality timber more quickly and will deliver all the environmental, social and economic benefits that they possibly can. By helping trees to survive long…
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Charley Brentnall: The Joy of High Pruning
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What type of tree should we be building things with? Kath Giles talks with Charley Brentnall - a leader in timber construction and conservation - about the underutilization of certain tree species and sizes of timber, as well as the possibilities that lie within slow grown timber. Charley talks about the joy of high pruning and the future of timber…
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Welcome to the Tree Radicals Podcast!
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Meet the Tree Radical hosts, Jez Ralph and Kath Giles as they launch Tree Radicals the podcast!De către Media Team
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A little boy surveys the city traffic, sounds and colours from the comfort of his mother's wrap.
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One day, traveling in the metro, a young family caught my attention. A nano tale of how the strangers became familiar, and then strangers again.
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