by storytree | Jan 27, 2020 | environmental storytelling, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Storytelling, The value of oral storytelling
How can a simple old folktale be useful for activists and changemakers in complex modern crises? In tabloid papers, Chicken Little has at times been used by cartoonists in extremely dismissive and sometimes savage ways to imply that environmentalists warning of...
by storytree | Jan 16, 2020 | environmental storytelling, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Learning to tell stories, Local stories, Storytelling, The value of oral storytelling
Last year for a long time after our so-called ‘climate election’ was lost here in Australia to a coal-loving party, I felt extremely deflated. I couldn’t find much motivation or desire to shine my storytelling light, when ordinarily that is the very...
by storytree | Jan 12, 2020 | environmental storytelling, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Storytelling
Earlier last year, confronted by the news, I regularly struggled with the temptation to go hide under the bed covers. Sometimes I confess I gave in. As I write, the world watches in horror as walls of flame engulf vast tracts of Australia, while our government...
by storytree | Dec 24, 2019 | Christmas story, environmental storytelling, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Resources
A story is a gift that lasts a lifetime. The story your child will remember the most will probably be the one you tell them, which is why each year, I repost this sweet Solstice tale and encourage story lovers to have a go at telling it themselves in their own way. It...
by storytree | Dec 5, 2019 | environmental storytelling, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, social justice, Storytelling
In the GIFT OF STORY video series, I am briefly explaining various tales I have recorded. Here I describe this delightful and playful Nigerian folktale which encourages respect for nature, respect for boundaries, responsibility, fairness, care for the environment. It...
by storytree | Dec 4, 2019 | Australian stories, environmental storytelling, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Local stories, Stories of the feminine, Storytelling
I explain in this video * how I rewove this story from an old English folktale ‘The Old Lady and the Oak Tree’. I changed the setting to Australia, swapped the oak tree to a fig tree and wove in details from a very quirky family member into the main...
