Trees

by mr O´asif - reclaim the streets! Mon Oct 28, 2002 15:32 iosaf at email dot com barcelona

I remember "borrowing" a skiff once and making the short journey from Howth to Ireland´s Eye, a small island to the north east of Dublin.
I and some pals planted some trees on the island.
We used to do lots of silly stuff like that.
I´ve no idea if the trees survived, anyway the point is it´s very easy to plant trees.
You don´t have to "borrow" anyone´s boat, all you need is a good spot and positive will, hopefully the tree will last years and years, providing oxygen to all and homes to birds.
If planting trees is too big for you, planting marijuana is fun as well. All you need is a seed and a bit of garden, someone elses garden can be used, and if its a famous garden all the better.

by Daithi Mon Oct 28, 2002 02:28

Of course trees being knocked down is news.

Asking "does anyone know about the trees being knocked down" is not news.

The newswire of this site is being destroyed by people treating it like a message board, somewhere they can throw out ideas and argue about the various left parties.

Every such article is doing more damage to the idea of providing an alternative, peer-reviewed, decentralised, independent, non-corporate, generally unedited, useful news source.

Sure there's a space for an activist's BBS.

That space is not here. Start writing articles, take a hard look at what's going on, analyse, criticise, suggest, propose, scrutinise or report, but please try and do it as a news article.

The Internet's a big place and Indymedia isn't trying to be a one stop shop. Please, please, make an effort to understand why all these sites exist on every continent, to challenge the dominant position of the conventional news media and to subvert their influence. This is never going to happen if "contributions" are limited to one-liners and sniping.

I don't mean to single you out, and I apologise for that, but the article that opens this page is as far removed from news as we're ever going to get. I am genuinely concerned about the Corpo's plans but there's a time and a place for everything and coming on to write on a newswire that you're looking for further information is just not the way to do it.

by Ireland Needs More Trees Mon Oct 28, 2002 01:05

And if possible a campaign to highlight the issue BEFORE it's too late is needed. I ask here because I thought - mistakenly apparently - there might be people of like mind who would be upset about the removal of these trees and want to do something about it. Is not Indymedia supposed to be a network for activists that includes news and information? What is it for if not that? Looking 'hip'?

Here is an article about the plan to remove the old trees, I paste it here only because it is a registration only site and some people may not be registered. If there are Indymedia readers in the Dublin area who care about this issue, please leave a message here. If there is no interest I will go away but if there is interest in saving these trees from the chop, I would like to know and maybe something can be done about it.

Council 'wrong' to fell all trees on O'Connell St

A PLAN to cut down all 50 trees on Dublin's O'Connell Street has been described as "wrong" by a former Lord Mayor of the city.

Commenting on a City Council "improvement scheme" which will remove 100-year-old trees from the capital's thoroughfare , Green TD John Gormley said: "The function of trees in a city is to cleanse the air of pollutants. That is vital. The City Council could have been much more creative. I think that it is just wrong."

Seven trees have already been felled at the Abbey Street junction to allow Luas to build an underground electricity substation. The location for the giant transformer was decided by Dublin City Council, not Luas, as part of its "integrated development plan".

The Council confirmed it planned to remove every one of the distinctive London Plane trees on O'Connell Street. It said several trees had already been cut down to allow the construction of the new steel spire, in addition to the trees that have been cleared for the electricity substation. The remaining trees would be removed on a "phased basis", it said.

Trees at the north end of the street date to the turn of the nineteenth century. One tree near the Parnell statue is noted by botanists as being amongst the finest examples of the species in the world.

The 50 trees are home to many hundreds of birds. Birdwatch Ireland has made a submission to the council expressing its concern that Pied Wagtails will be left without mature trees to roost in.

Dublin City Council spokeswoman Ann Graham said new trees would eventually be planted in alternative places on O'Connell Street. She said Lime trees would replace the Plane trees, but that it would not be possible to plant mature trees.

Lime trees do not have the same ability to withstand and cleanse atmospheric pollution as London Plane trees.

EOGHAN WILLIAMS

by Daithi Mon Oct 28, 2002 00:46

You might like to know that this is a newswire, not a message board.

So please do not abuse the site by using it for asking questions.

by nothing to say. Sun Oct 27, 2002 22:15

all your left with is a single question
at which tree shall we stop?

Tree = biological thing
(smells bad "anti car")
= family thing
(who´s your great great grandmother?
= information thing
(where was it Echelon got lost?)
= symbolic thing.

lovely trees.
can´t see the wood for the trees.
hmmm.

a silly link:

Mr Pertti Kilpeläinen from Lieksa has set up a museum in an old cowshed, where he has built up a very masculine collection of chain saws, other logging implements, and household management equipment. He has already 170 chain saws and is continually looking for more.

see the link :-)

www.posti.fi/postimuseo/vaihtuvat_nayttelyt/ 1999/KIH/eng/14e.html

by € Sun Oct 27, 2002 21:19

and get in the way of cars.
They are passive elements in our society
and should be dealt with.
Chop a tree today.
You know it makes sense.

by Roisin Sun Oct 27, 2002 19:13

I've heard nothing about it before this.

by Raymond McInerney Sun Oct 27, 2002 16:37

Could your forward some information on the above.