[CANUFNET] Social innovation & Entrepreneurship in Green Care

Tue May 26 13:59:06 EDT 2020

My wife and I filled it out yesterday after getting a link from Zac Wertz.
Good luck.  Owen

On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 10:35, Devisscher, Tahia via CANUFNET <
canufnet at list.web.net> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> I’m writing to you because we need your opinion to better understand how
> widespread Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Green Care initiatives
> are, and what you consider are the most relevant training needs.
>
>
> By completing the following questionnaire, you will help our Green4C team
> develop targeted opportunities to address those needs. These opportunities
> will include online training courses, hackathons and a business accelerator
> course. FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT AND THE ‘GREEN CARE TRAINING NEEDS
> ASSESSMENT’ QUESIONNAIRE -> https://www.greenforcare.eu/
> <https://www.greenforcare.eu/>
> Green4C <https://www.greenforcare.eu/>
> www.greenforcare.eu
> The project aims at increasing Europe’s innovation capacity among
> universities and businesses to promote green and natural approaches to
> health and social care.
> Green4C is a three-year (2020-2023) Erasmus+ learning and exchange project
> that aims to contribute to the development of Green Care entrepreneurial
> opportunities that focus on health, wellbeing and social inclusion through
> nature-based solutions.
>
>
> Green4C is promoted by The University of Padova and Etifor in partnership
> with Meath Partnership, Elevate, The Universitatea Transilvania in Brasov,
> Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Bundesamt für Wald, European Forest
> Institute, Wageningen University and Research, Forest Design, The
> University of British Columbia, and The University College Dublin.
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>
>
> Many thanks in advance for your support filling out the survey and helping
> us to spread it widely,
>
>
> Tahia
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> *Tahia Devisscher, PhD, MSc*
>
> Postdoctoral Research & Teaching Fellow
>
> Department of Forest Resources Management
>
> Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS
> <https://cirs.ubc.ca/>)
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> The University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus
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> Territory
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> *“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within
> it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound
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> *From:* CANUFNET <canufnet-bounces at list.web.net> on behalf of Greg King
> via CANUFNET <canufnet at list.web.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 26, 2020 7:28 AM
> *To:* Canadian Urban Forest Network
> *Cc:* Greg King
> *Subject:* Re: [CANUFNET] Tree "Sexism" in Canada: Call for information &
> thoughts
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just a quick FYI that the article written by Ally Hirschlag for the
> Guardian about male trees and allergies, for which there was a
> informational request sent to CANUFNET back in March, was published on May
> 16. Here is a direct link:
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/16/how-urban-planners-preference-for-male-trees-has-made-your-hay-fever-worse
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Greg
>
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 at 08:04, Rebecca Seltzer via CANUFNET <
> canufnet at list.web.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> We at Tree Canada just received some questions from a reporter at the
>> Guardian, and I thought it would be good to share with the wider urban
>> forestry community. Please do contact Ally Hirschlag directly with your
>> comments.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Context:*
>>
>> “Male trees are cleaner and easier to manage than female trees. Unlike
>> their female counterparts, distinctly male plants produce pollen but do not
>> produce seeds, pods and fruit, which fall to the ground and create mess.
>> Female trees also attract pests, including bees, because they provide a
>> source of food.” Source
>> <https://globalnews.ca/news/5403667/botanical-sexism-climate-change-asthma-allergies/>
>>
>>
>>
>> “Commercial horticulture produces vast numbers of all-male clonal
>> selections from dioecious plants […] Close to 100% of all the ash (
>> *Fraxinus)*, poplar (*Populus), *pistache *(Pistacia), *bay laurel *(Laurus),
>> *junipers* (Juniperus), *willows* (Salix), *gingko tree *(Gingko), *
>> Griselinia* (Griselinia), *mulberries* (Morus), *yellowwood*
>> (Podocarpus), *locust* (Gleditsia) *and logwoods *(Xylosma) *sold are
>> clonal males.” Source
>> <https://books.google.ca/books?redir_esc=y&id=pAJCDwAAQBAJ&q=clonal+males#v=snippet&q=clonal%20males&f=false>
>>
>>
>>
>> *The questions:*
>>
>>    - In Canada, has there been a significant proportion of entirely male
>>    trees or male clones planted in urban areas? Why has this trend been
>>    perpetuated?
>>    - Has this caused an uptick in pollen dispersal in urban communities?
>>    - Do you know of specific communities in Canada looking to lower
>>    their pollen count by adding more female trees and/or less allergy-causing
>>    pollinators?
>>    - What else are communities in Canada doing to combat worsening
>>    allergies in urban or suburban areas due to high tree pollen counts?
>>
>> *Contact information:*
>>
>> Ally Hirschlag
>>
>> ally.hirschlag at gmail.com
>>
>> 2013144322
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>>
>>
>> Thank you all!
>>
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>> *Rebecca Seltzer*
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>> treecanada.ca  arbrescanada.ca
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> --
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> <https://www.ualberta.ca/augustana/about-us/academic-staff/greg-king>
> Assistant Professor of Environmental Science
> Department of Science
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