If you want to expand your knowledge about trees and forests whilst exploring ways to help them, this is the podcast for you.
We talk radical ideas with guests from diverse backgrounds, delving deep into the policy, ecology, economics, attitudes and perceptions that underpin the current state of affairs, and explore meaningful interventions. This podcast is part of the Tree Radicals inquiry brought to you by The Woodland Presents CIC and Timber Strategies.
This week Jez talks to Eleanor Harris about her surprisingly positive experience working in commercial forestry, and the need for the timber industry and our natural capital to be integrated into our economic system in order to tackle the environmental challenges of our time in an equitable way.
Alice Blogg is a wood-based designer-maker running her own business in the Dorset countryside, who believes in using local timber and supporting independent businesses. She tells Kath what inspires her both in her work and in her life, and they discuss sustainability, good reads, and the types of wood she’s been discovering in her practice lately.
Forestry engineer Andrew Heald shares a favourite quote that "forestry isn't about trees, it's about people" and draws some practical and informative links to the importance of a people-centred approach and better communication within the industry. He tells us why it’s necessary for forestry certification to better support smaller forest management operations, and for us to develop a more integrated approach in how smaller scale land-use is accommodated by our regulation systems.
Jez talks with Marlene Cramer who is compiling a PHD in properties of hardwoods for structural use. She talks about the importance of establishing and predicting properties of timber for construction and the need to dispel the myth that timber is an infinite resource.