Biodiversity loss means more climate chaos. What can we do?
A few weeks ago, I gave a talk on biodiversity at the Farnham Sustainability Festival, and wanted to share the key points from my...
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Karen Bishop
- Jun 6
- 4 min
End of Year two, and thousands more trees planted
We've had a busy few months since Christmas planting trees in Headley Down Nature Reserve (HNDR), Farnham and Wales (twice), plus holding...
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Karen Bishop
- Jul 25, 2022
- 1 min
Another exciting collaboration with award-winning eco company - Green Laurels
We're really excited to be teaming up with greenlaurels.co.uk to plant more trees in the U.K. this autumn. Green Laurels is a rapidly...
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Karen Bishop
- Jul 14, 2022
- 3 min
What the heck is greenwashing? (and how do we stop it?)
Greenwashing is a term bandied around a lot these days. It refers to situations where companies convey a false impression, or provide...
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Karen Bishop
- Jun 20, 2022
- 1 min
We've teamed up with Healing Frequencies to plant 100s of trees this autumn
Have you ever tried sound bathing? I have and it's a great way to unwind. Tess, Founder of Healing Frequencies in Farnham, uses Tibetan...
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Karen Bishop
- May 12, 2022
- 1 min
We planted fruit trees with top Chef Gaz Oakley
A couple of weeks ago we had the pleasure of meeting plant-based chef, Gaz Oakley, when we planted a mixture of fruit trees in his garden...
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Karen Bishop
- Apr 7, 2022
- 2 min
Can we plant our way out of the climate crisis?
On land, plants (particularly trees) are our most precious carbon sink, actively taking CO2 out of the air and producing O2. They offer...
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Karen Bishop
- Mar 15, 2022
- 1 min
300 trees planted in Cardiff
With the help of Coed Caerdydd, and Cardiff Council, we have been able to Green Up Plymouth Great Wood and Trelai Park in Ely, Cardiff,...
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Karen Bishop
- Mar 10, 2022
- 2 min
Our biggest tree plant yet - 2,300 for Volvo!
We had the best time in Dinas Mawddwy, north Wales last weekend, where we planted over 300 metres of species-rich hedgerow along a patch...
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Karen Bishop
- Jan 8, 2022
- 2 min
22 reasons to be (a bit) climate-positive in 2022
A brief summary of some reasons to be optimistic as we enter a new year in the climate crisis.
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Karen Bishop
- Jan 1, 2022
- 1 min
200 trees at Carron Pond with Volvo
We had a great day planting Alder with Volvo in December. The cold weather didn't deter this lovely bunch from working hard to create an...
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Karen Bishop
- Nov 24, 2021
- 3 min
What happens at a 1.5, 2 and 3ºC increase in temperature?
We're already at a 1.2C (degrees Celsius) increase in average global temperature, verses pre-industrial levels, and are witnessing the...
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Karen Bishop
- Oct 18, 2021
- 1 min
Corporate planting has begun!
We had a really lovely weekend planting trees with with the wonderful team (Jo Ballard, Danni Cross, Dan Davies and son Ethan) from...
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Karen Bishop
- Oct 13, 2021
- 2 min
85 trees planted in Farnham
What a weekend we had at the end of September (25th & 26th) in Farnham Park. We were so lucky with the weather, and had lots of fun...
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Karen Bishop
- Sep 6, 2021
- 1 min
Another six trees in the ground - thanks to donations
A while ago I wrote a post asking people to 'help me help us' by gifting money to buy native trees for planting. In this post I pledged...
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Karen Bishop
- Aug 4, 2021
- 13 min
What's the UK doing to fight climate change?
We all know that climate change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) from human activities, and unless we act now we face...
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Karen Bishop
- Jan 14, 2021
- 5 min
21 things to do right now to help combat climate change
As more and more apocalyptic scenes were witnessed last year - think wildfires, locust plagues, flooding, ice melting, coral bleaching...
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Karen Bishop
- Apr 10, 2020
- 1 min
Trees Communicate
Trees are a lot more complex than we think
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