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I have only skim read but it is an excellent piece of work. CEO of Woodland Trust spoke at the GEM conference, mainly as a case study on growth and organisational leadership, but I would advocate on behalf of more museums making the link between themselves and the natural world (obvs I'm talking about those that do not explicitly have natural science collections). Woodland and timber played a huge role in social history (trees don't fell and mill themselves you know...). We almost lost WWI due to a lack of timber. We are still paying the price for WWI deforestation, and subsequent planting of monoculture pine forests, to this day. There are many archaeological sites set within woodland.I';m guessing you all have wooden objects in your collections? What species is it? Where did it come from? What was life like when it was first felled? I can put GEM members in touch with their nearest Woodland Trust contact of course, but the same goes for any environmental organisation. Museums just need to create some time and space to think outside the box (not easy, I appreciate). Anyway, got to go, my hobbyhorse needs feeding... E > On 19 September 2018 at 11:13 "Fraser, Ian" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > GEMMERS, this is worth a read in detail, for how Chris Packham's Manifesto for Wildlife could influence education, and how re-connecting young people with the natural environment is a way into addressing the causes and effects of climate breakdown: > > http://www.chrispackham.co.uk/a-peoples-manifesto-for-wildlife > > > Ian Fraser, ACR > Conservator > Leeds Museums and Galleries > Temple Newsam House > Leeds LS15 0AE > > [SmallCubeColplusR (3)] > > https://secretlivesofobjects.blog/ > > https://twitter.com/LeedsMuseums?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor > > > > > ________________________________ > > Leeds Adult Learning course finder > Offering adults the chance to improve their knowledge or learn a new skill in an array of different subjects www.leedsadultlearning.co.uk <https://www.leedsadultlearning.co.uk/> > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > The information in this email (and any attachment) may be for the > intended recipient only. If you know you are not the intended recipient, > please do not use or disclose the information in any way and please > delete this email (and any attachment) from your system. > > The Council does not accept service of legal documents by e-mail. > ________________________________________________________________________ > > > > + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + > > GEM list: Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] > > Anyone can join for free at any time by sending this message to [log in to unmask]: > > Join GEM Firstname Secondname > > Include only the text above, without email signature etc. The title of the email doesn’t matter. Send it to [log in to unmask] > > > If you are going on holiday or have an out of office message for some other reason, you can send this message: > > Set GEM nomail > > When you get back: > > Set GEM mail > > You don’t 'miss' any messages by doing this as they are all available via main GEM list web page as above. > > > Finally, if you need to change your email address, but stay subscribed to GEM, just send your new email address like this: > > CHANGE GEM [log in to unmask] > > + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + GEM list: Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] Anyone can join for free at any time by sending this message to [log in to unmask]: Join GEM Firstname Secondname Include only the text above, without email signature etc. The title of the email doesn’t matter. Send it to [log in to unmask] If you are going on holiday or have an out of office message for some other reason, you can send this message: Set GEM nomail When you get back: Set GEM mail You don’t 'miss' any messages by doing this as they are all available via main GEM list web page as above. Finally, if you need to change your email address, but stay subscribed to GEM, just send your new email address like this: CHANGE GEM [log in to unmask] + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +