by storytree | Feb 22, 2022 | environmental storytelling, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Ocean Stories, Storytelling
IMAGE CREDIT : Diver in Water ~ John Cahil Rom ~ Pexels This video, ‘The Sea Sprite and the Kelp Gardens: Upwelling and Marine Permaculture’ is my attempt to use story to explain the natural phenomenon of Upwelling, which is key to understanding how...
by storytree | Nov 16, 2021 | Australian stories, environmental storytelling, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Local stories, Storytelling
Lately, as I go to my strawberry bed each morning and gather a little bowl of strawberries, I have been feeling like Lily, the protagonist of my story, ‘Lily and the Fig Tree’. This is the first season in years that I’ve managed to grow plump, tasty...
by storytree | Apr 3, 2021 | environmental storytelling, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Public Performances, Storytelling
Both the farmers were curious now. ‘What on earth are you doing?’ they said. ‘Well,’ said the little old lady, getting up and wiping the mud off her hands, ‘I’ve asked the land for its opinion. And the land says that you belong to it.’ From ‘The Field’, from...
by storytree | Apr 1, 2020 | Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Storytelling
As globally we go into various stages of lockdown to ‘flatten the curve’ of Covid19, I pondered how much it is like being in hibernation during a severe winter. I recalled ‘Shingebiss and the North Wind’ as told by my storytelling friend and colleague Fran Stallings....
by storytree | Mar 23, 2020 | environmental storytelling, Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Green Storytelling, Storytelling
I don’t usually post my newsletters to my blog, but this one is special. How are you faring? How are those in your circle? I send you warm (non-infectious) hugs. 🙂 I hope you are managing to find peace, calm and compassion amid the storms of fear-inducing,...
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...
