Our society produces Deserts by Default.

It doesn’t need to be this way. We could be producing Food Forests as a byproduct.

What needs to happen for us to make the social level shifts is at the core of my work. It is the reason for www.canopy-projects.com

This isn’t a call for you to retrofit your home - it’s a call to change our societies. The individualisation of society wide problems is a part of the issue. We need to stop thinking in terms of individual escape and “more sustainable than thou” lifestyles and work towards collective emancipation and transformation!

The first issue is awareness and imagination - an issue resolved through storytelling aka Marketing.

So let’s start there shall we - I’ve made a bold statement, now here are some receipts. This is not an exhaustive list, but an illustration of just some of what is possible. I’m not asking you for blind faith. I’m asking you to see beyond the stories of despair to what is possible today.

To invite you to ask yourself - what can I do to help plant and grow these seeds. To ask, what if we fed the world, what if we grew forests rather than desert, what if we oriented society towards regenerative relationships?

This are just the entrance to the rabbit hole - there are many techniques and processes to unpack. But that is not the purpose of this post. The purpose is to show that it is possible.

The question that follows from this is how do we help Forests to spread? It’s now a question of Possibility, but a question of our collective will?

What will it take for us to commit the necessary resources to reforest the Earth?