9.15pm and O’ Brien and Song is on the radio. A lovely piece ‘Lumino Voyage’ or something like that is playing but I can’t find a pen handy so dash upstairs to get one hoping the title will be repeated. I am on the stairs when I’m halted by a very bright, strange light streaming into the dark bedroom. The moon is huge, not round but rather the shape and texture of an unshelled, elongated peanut. It looks incredibly ill as if all vitality is drained from it and has difficulty remaining upright. Its face is a yellowish hue, its eyes smudged and a silent scream seemed to be coming from its open mouth. I heard this interview once – Lori Anderson I think it was – and she was artist in residence for a while in Nassau. And she said something about a plan that was afoot by the powers that be, to transport all human inhabitants to the moon and leave earth behind to be used as a toxic dumping ground for all our waste. No human would ever do that to the earth, would they? No human would ever inflict such a human transfer on the poor moon, would they? I must have heard it wrong. However looking at the moon, I wondered if he had heard it too and thus his terrible sickly, horrified appearance tonight.

For those of you interested in knowing more or becoming more involved in the work of the Trust, we have planned a meeting this Autumn, to take place in Athlone. We have purposely chosen Athlone as a central point to make travelling to this meeting as easy as we can for people coming from the four corners of Ireland.

The purpose of this meeting is to inform the public or any interested party about the vision of the Trust and about how this vision might be realised. We will be exploring practical ways in which people from different parts of Ireland can support the work of the Trust by forming local groups in their home counties, by fundraising locally, by distributing Land Trust information bookmarks, and by raising awareness where they live.

Everyone is welcome to this meeting which will be held in The Prince of Wales Hotel, Athlone on Saturday 13th October from 2.00-4.00pm.

Please share this invitation to attend with anyone you know that might have an interest in the work of saving Irish Land for present and future generations.

As you can see, we gave the web site a rest over the summer months. It’s Autumn now and time once again to update the news! Lots of things have been growing and have come to fruition throughout the summer.

We are happy to announce that we now have lovely printed material available. Bookmarks, which will be freely available through libraries, conferences etc. Please fell free to email us if you would like to have some Green Sod Land Trust bookmarks to distribute at any event. We have also printed blank notelets with four different images available at a cost of €4.00 / pack of four. Our sod cards are also printed and ready for distribution but they are not up on the web site yet. There are four types of sod cards: Congratulations, Best Wishes, Seasons Greetings, In Loving Memory available at a cost of €25.00 each. As you know the Trust has yet to purchase land and at this stage, all money raised through the sod cards which are numbered individually will go towards buying the first piece of land. The sod cards represent the purchase of symbolic sods to save Irish land.

All of our printed material, Bookmarks, Notelets, and Sod Cards are 100% recycled.

Email greensodlandtrust@eircom.net for more information on any of the above.
Or write to Green Sod Land Trust, 8 Bowling Green, Galway.