You have to check out the Hummingbird Collective’s launch of Nature Creative Commons showcasing the Forest Carbon Project. Check out the website for open-access, educational, and visually engaging materials to dispel myths surrounding forests, carbon, and wood products. The 15-minute video Old Forests the Real Climate Heroes is a must watch, both in content and visualization. Hats off to the Hummingbird Collective for taking on this initiative. It is great to see the skill set and technical advances behind the production and associated infographics.
As stated on their website, the Hummingbird Collective began as a mentorship program for emerging artists, scientists, and communicators to develop their creative processes and professional skills. Over time, it has evolved into a collaborative initiative where established professionals share their experience, resources, knowledge, and networks.
For all you movers and shakers, if you have a communications project and are interested in collaborating with the Hummingbird Collective or want to support the Nature Creative Commons, please get in touch with them. Let’s keep their momentum building!
Other news: the international campaign against forests being used as source material for wood pellets to generate electricity at an industrial scale continues. Whether this form of biofuel expansion is subsiding or escalating depends on the geographic area such as Europe, Asia, or the Americas. Some campaign progress has been made in South Korea, Japan, Germany & Netherlands, but not so within North America (B.C. & Canada included), and the rest of Asia (China, India, Indonesia- Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand & Philippines). The root of the problem has to do with the current national and international agreements/concessions that the felling of trees as source material for wood pellets is carbon neutral. The industrial wood pellet industry has emerged as one of the greatest threats to the planet’s remaining primary forests and the biodiversity they contain, and has surpassed that of forest conversions to palm oil plantations in Asia.
The biggest wood pellet player in B.C. is Drax, with the bulk of their B.C. shipments now going to Japan and South Korea instead of the UK. However, the campaign against Drax in the UK continues, with only marginal success, despite government change.
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