STATEGIC PLAN

All recommendations and critiques welcomed

PURPOSE

To acknowledge trees in their places and the part they play in cultural landscaping and environmental viability, ONEtree at a time.

OBJECTIVES

•  To respectfully honour trees, ONEtree at a time, within an ECOnetwork and the circumstances within which humanity now exists while looking ahead in a changing world.

•  To build, develop and assist in sustaining trees in places, in context of their  ecosystems and in their cultural landscapes – urban, rural, industrial and in 'natural environments'.

•  To initiate projects and programs that belong to and in places that honour and celebrate the important contributions trees make to cultural landscapes and the communities that shape and make them and belong to and in them.

•  To commission 'makers' and cultural producers  and/or networks of makers, to realise a work/s work collaboratively or cooperatively relative to a ONEtree initiative. 

•  To generate and seek funding and in-kind support for ONEtree initiates within cultural landscapes – local, regional, national. 

•  To publish, promote and market ONEtree initiates in cultural landscapes to the Communities of Ownership and Interest relative to ONEtree initiates and the cultural discourses that give such projects sustenance. 

GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Notwithstanding that open question that has been hanging in the air forever to do with 'placedness' being the imperative that shapes and makes 'human cultural realities' – albeit that there is indeed another way to think about all this. 

Alternatively, might it be that it is 'human cultural realities' that ultimately determines 'placedness' and thus it is indeed the 'shaping mechanism'? 

Whatever it is, currently humanity is faced with dynamic change largely of its own making and there is no escaping that reality. – ideologically or politically. 

When imagined as a 'resource' – just so much wood – trees become vulnerable, sometimes expendable – typically so and all too often. Importantly, in the context of a cultural landscaping where 'places' are understood to belong to 'people' rather than people and communities belonging to, and in, their cultural landscape, this becomes the point of conflict between humanity and place. 

It is particularly so in the context of:

• Dynamic change relative to impending climate change;
• Cultural change relative to emerging and evolving technologies; and
• The increasing likelihood of virulent global pandemics;

Cultural realities are faced with managing 'their place' in evolving and sustainable economies and in ecosystems within which 'trees' as 'carbon sinks' at the very least play an important part. 

ONEtree at a time, these things might well be addressed in yet to be realised ways based upon old knowledge systems and in the context of what might be imagined as NEWtechnologies in a post pandemic crisis and the as yet to be discovered unanticipated consequences of 'change'.

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