Posts in Personal Stories
Book Review: "The Overstory" by Richard Powers

Trees are amazing. The more you know about them, the more you love them. Perhaps for that reason, we become calmer when we are among them — because we instinctively know that trees represent comfort, safety, and food.

In this article, I share my review of “The Overstory”, a Pulitzer-winning book by Richard Powers that tells us multiple stories in parallel, while implicitly telling us the story of how humans have been relating to trees — and what may happen next if we don’t curb our arrogance.

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The re:build gathering for regenerative professionals (21-24 Apr 2022, Netherlands)

This year’s re:build event was a great success. The excitement and the beauty of those days were still alive when we met for April’s Monthly Family Gathering.

This inspired us to collect a few personal notes and write this article, so we could share the experience with the wider Gaianet community. The co-contributors of this article were Alexander Keehnen, Bart Hoorweg and Jan Geselle.

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