After the success of the Galway exhibition, Inside Outside: Wild Places, Sasha Bosbeer and Kevin Collins will opening on 25 February 2009, in ENFO, 17 St. Andrew Street, Dublin. This exhibition is in cooperation with The Tree Council of Ireland. The nature photography being exhibited will be sold to promote the Green Sod Land Trust.

The dark cold winter evenings gave us ample opportunity to stay indoors and work on the Earth Literacy Education Initiative. We have been updating the six Earth Literacy Workbooks which we created for and launched at the RAPAL (research and practice in adult literacy) Conference, June, 2008. The new format makes the books more accessible. They are for use with adult learners across various disciplines – Family History, Food/Cookery, Environment Matters, Nature Study, H-Our Story – numeracy workbook, Art. A little more time will see the completion of a book on Climate Change and Science. The workbooks will be coming on stream immediately so that they can be down-loaded from our Education page very shortly. We have put a lot of time, expertise and effort into putting these workbooks together in a way that will be useful to people. We only claim ownership of these books in as much as we have put them together with a specific purpose in mind. They are our gift to educators who are concerned with the implications of how we live and our relationship with the natural world, so in that light please feel free to use them with your students. There is currently no charge for these books, however, a donation, however small, to the Green Sod Land Trust, would be gratefully received.

A directors meeting took place on January 31st, 09. All the directors were in attendence. The Trust is urgently seeking a funding source and also aiming to widen the base of those involved in the work of the Trust on a nationwide basis. ‘Thank you’ to all of you who keep in touch with us and are generous to the Trust with your time and your money. We greatly appreciate you.