Climate Craftivism

I received an invitation from 350 to make a Tree Sign for Earth Day. It took me a while, but I finally made one! Here is the invitation: This Earth Day project “Tree Speech,” engages people in honoring the trees in our neighborhoods, by making simple signs that appear as if held by the tree itself. The signs offer messages that individual trees have to tell us about themselves and their many gifts. Hopefully, as we actively engage with these magnificent beings, messages will emerge as we sit at the foot of trees, or perhaps climb them. In Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass, she lyrically demonstrates “… that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world.” “... For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth ...” Elizabeth Gilbert   We invite you to consider the trees in your yard and your neigh