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Today is a happy day for oxygen starved city workers. I can’t say that I’ve seen them myself but I have been reliably informed that London’s Fenchurch Street station now has three new additions. Elm trees (you can see one above). Plus a swish new wooden seating area. Look closer and you’ll spot climate change poetry carved into the sustainably-sourced wooden benches. Anything to get the message out there, as they say.
This is part of a Lloyd’s project called Trees in the City launched, in conjunction with the charity Poet in the City, with the dual purpose of making the Square Mile greener and bringing poetry to children. The Whitbread-shortlisted poet Mathew Hollis and the controversial Patience Agbabi, once writer-in-residence at Eton College, have offered up their verse and will be holding poetry workshops at schools in East London over the next year. Here is Hollis reading The Need. For Agabi’s Tsunami, click here, and here’s a full list of the poems you can download. Let me know what you think.

Comments

[Tom]

[cynical]I thought you eco types wanted to conserve hot air... And isn't the best way to 'sustainably source' something to not cut it down in the first place?[/cynical]

[Anna Shepard]

Tom - you'll be relieved to know that the sustainable wooden benches have been sourced from wind-blown trees so they haven't been cut down
You can sleep easy now and take a break from that cynicism...
For more on that see Mark Lynas' article in today's G2. Here is a link. http://environment.guardian.co.uk/ethicalliving/story/0,,2023839,00.html