Wishing you a HAPPY New Year 2010!
We from the Treenitiative wish our visitors and subscribers a HAPPY New Year 2010 and thank you for being with us since our launch about half a year ago. Thank you for helping us grow, for helping the trees grow and for spreading the word of a greener, cleaner, better and brighter FUTURE.
The coming year will also mark the start of a new decade – hopefully one that opens up new vistas and a renewed sense of interdependence and cooperation. We all have gone through moving times recently with respect to the basically useful and needed debate about our environment and the changing climate, but the “doom & gloom” spread along this line might have left many discouraged or disengaged.
We are convinced that, while there always have and always will exist minor or major challenges for humanity to deal with, the solutions to many of the current problems might actually be quite simple – too simple maybe to be recognized by scientifical complexity and economical interest. Nevertheless change, innovation and surprising solutions have often been brought about amidst times of hardship, crises, and despair – or just when their time has come. Often such developments were initiated by a common man or woman. Remember Edison – he was not a scientist or studied engineer – in fact he hardly had any school education – but he was highly inspired and through his passion, persistence, trial and error (he is said to have erred over a thousand times until he found the proper construction for his light bulb) he brought about tremendous transformation and improvement to the world.
We (sic. we the common men and women) do not need consent or scientific, religious or political authorization to be extra-ordinary and do what makes sense and what is sensible. We can reverse much of the man-made climate change by planting and protecting trees thus covering the barren land with a layer of foliage that shelters animals, shades the ground, converts carbon to biomass and oxygen, stores water and cools the planet – and that also provides food, medicines, livelihoods for the poor and last but not least – that looks very pretty to the observer from nearby or even from outer space.
You are invited to be extra-ordinary, to take on the challenge and become part of the solution. Help restoring balance and to make the coming year and decade a turning point in the history of humanity. It is the realization of love, dedication and cooperation that will provide the inspiration and courage needed to embark on a new path leading to fresh solutions and a worthwhile coexistence on our planet – our Mother Earth.
We wish you much strenght, courage, love, compassion and success for the task at hand!
The Team at the Treenitiative
