Can we sponsor some charity work as a Forum

Gaieus

Mike, as I said, I'd participate. Global warming or not - preserving those beautiful forests is important (we are letting forests "reoccupy" their old places here in Hungary)
And Kriss - we regularly go out and collect all the litter people leave everywhere - also to highlight this issue. The township provides the bags and trucks for transporting the collected things but the community does the job.

John Sayers

@unknownuser said:

(we are letting forests "reoccupy" their old places here in Hungary)

That's interesting Gai - just the other day I was following the Danube from the sea to it's source on google earth and I was amazed at the lack of forest in not only your country but the others as well.

cheers
john

Mike Lucey

As I heard nothing back from CoolEarth I phoned the
London office this afternoon and had a chat with a
nice lady called Ann.

I explained what I had in mind and she took my phone
number and email and advised that she would get
someone to contact me.

BTW, I donated for an acre and got my Certificate
and link to Google Earth showing the actual piece
of forrest.

I'll keep you posted on progress. Oh! I'm attaching
a pic of the Cert.

Mike

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Will03

Thats really cool Mike! I'll be hopping on that bandwagon for sure!

you can expect the partridge family to be jealous of my treehouse!

dylan

Yep, this seems a great idea to me and also an interesting SU project.
I shall also be joining in with this.

Dylan

Mike Lucey

Thanks guys, I'll keep pushing the project along
and hope that something comes of it.

We would also need some very low poly trees that
would suit the project ..... maybe Tom might help
in this area !

We could be helping these little guys out

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Gaieus

@john sayers said:

I was amazed at the lack of forest in not only your country but the others as well...

John, surely there was too much land agriculturally cultivated around here in the past. Even lands that are not really good for agriculture (most of Hungary's middle lands used to be wetlands unti the late 1800s but they drained the waters and built dams along the rivers).
Now these lands are "given back" to nature and even agriculture is practised in an old, traditional way (cattles, pigs, sheep etc. kept outside, forests "regaining" lands etc.). Fortunately I live near a woody area so I can regularly go hiking.

But again, clearing huge areas in the tropical regions willl not only destroy the forests themselves but also the soil and soon those land won't be used for anything - giving way to draughts (maybe at some other places).

Mike Lucey

Hi Guys,

I've just got some feedback from the CoolEarth people.
They are interested in the idea and want to hear more
details.

I will be contacting a Matthew Owen to discuss how the
idea can be developed into some sort of a promotional
gimmick for CoolEarth.

I will keep you posted on progress. So I think it might
be safe enough to start doodling a few ideas for suitable
3D trees and tree-houses in any spare time you may have

You just never know .... we could be paying a visit to
see the Rain Forrest in the not too distant future

Mike

PS: I'll try and locate some pics of tree-houses to germinate
some ideas and add them to this post

John Sayers

That's good news Gai - we too are realising the importance of wetlands and are encouraging our farmers to bring them back.

cheers
john

Mike Lucey

I've done a quick search and located some tree-house links.
My favourite is this, http://tropical-treehouse.com/pics.html
There is a great story behind the tree-house AND would you
believe there is a SketchUp connection. The tree-house, 'The
Sunset Hooch' (great name !) was designed using SU and there
is a model of the 10' x 10' version on 3D Warehouse. I show
a picture of Bamboojo's (another great name) model in my
composite. Here is the link to the model at 3D Warehouse,
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=25d1efd7d0cd4c0938da1400868ffbd9

I like this design style over the 'traditional' tree-house as
we have come to thing of them. This type of design is obviously
well suited / tested for its intended environment and it appears
to have a low impact on the forrest, I hope

There is just enough room for a few people to eat, sleep and
feel secure. I know, I know we are only talking about virtual
tree-houses but I feel we should be looking at designs that
would if, ever constructed, not harm the rain forrest.

TREE-HOUSE LINKS
http://www.treehouses.org/
http://www.blueforest.com/index.php?kw=tree%20houses&fl=51616
http://www.matadorcoupe.com/seebee65/treehouse.htm
http://americasbestonline.net/treehouse/Tritree.htm

I hope this little bit of research has sparked the imagination
of you guys that are going to row in AND have some FUN with
the project

Mike

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