Who likes postcards these day? A piece of paper that takes days or longer when I can just get an Instagram post in seconds? Who does that? Seriously. Why cut down trees and make someone carry it for you. That takes a LOT of effort. Which is exactly why I do it. Sure the cutting down trees part isn't cute but there are lots of ways to up cycle pieces of cardboard or a brochure into a postcard to alleviate that issue. And making someone carry it? That actually provides jobs for

We think we're pretty fancy for inventing the internet but what about the Wood Wide Web? Trees have a complex form of communication through their root system that isn’t so dissimilar to what we do on the interwebs. It’s all helped out and supported through the fungus that live below the earth. Occasionally they pop up as mushrooms but even when we can’t see them they are still there. I learned all this in the book The Hidden Life of Trees. I’ll never look at the woods the sa