Second Life for Trees

Second life for trees

Casey Council says it’s giving trees that are removed for their age or infrastructure pressures a second life by converting them into community assets. Over the last three years, the council says it has repurposed urban forest timber to support nature play and other projects… Read more The post Second life for trees appeared first on Star Community.

What Began as a 'Tree Orphanage' Has Grown Into a Forest of 2,000 Trees & 500+ Guardians

In Santiniketan, where the red earth glows beneath century-old shade, and Rabindranath Tagore's vision of learning under trees still lingers, 29-year-old Somnath Ghosh is nurturing something both practical and poetic — a home for trees that people plant and then forget. His Brikkho Foundation calls itself India's first "Orphanage Home for Trees." The phrase sounds metaphorical until Ghosh explains what it means. A tree, he says, becomes orphaned…