Welcome to ERS & the School Tree Nurseries Programme!
Earth Restoration Service (ERS) is a UK Registered Charity No. 1118951. Our goal is to transform the current concern for environmental degradation into positive action, inspiring the world’s citizens to play their part in restoring the natural health of their own environments.
Our approach is proactive and practical, forming partnerships with schools, community groups, charities, NGOs, government agencies and businesses, to create a global alliance to address the challenge of restoring the earth.
The School Tree Nurseries Programme aims to empower schools to take a practical and educational role in restoring their local communities. We are currently working with schools all over the UK and throughout the world.
"From the ashes a green shoot shall be woken"
03/12/2009
To help celebrate National Tree Week, we have teamed up BBC Breathing Places to attempt to break a Guinness World Record for Tree O’Clock: a nationwide challenge to plant more than 600,000 trees within a single hour (11am-12 noon on 5th December).
24/11/2009
We have been selected as finalist of the
www.1minutetosavetheworld.com film competition, we will know on the 1st of December if we make it to Copenhagen showing Harry Handprint and Freddy Footprint to the world leaders.
23/11/2009
With the flooding crisis up in the North of England, it is time we reforested those fell mountains to protect the villages in the valleys. Every one ton of biomass grown uses up to 1,000 tons of water. Leaving the sheep to manage the fell mountains is perhaps not in our best interest.
Attention! We need your pictures and recommendations for degraded and derelict land in your area which would benefit from restoration - big or small, it all matters. Send the information to: info at earthrestorationservice.org (e-mail written to avoid spam robots). We are starting to collect this information which we will try and make available shortly.
Joanna Lumley, Patron of Earth Restoration Service does the voice over for our film about Increasing your Positive Handprint
Hyde Park, Summer 2009
The "
Positive Handprint" campaign was launched at Hyde Park in London end June/beg. July 2009. We were invited by LiveNation to be present. Live acts included
Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, Blur, Fleet Foxes, the Pretenders, Ben Harper and more. The Positive Handprint campaign enabled concert goers to sign up to the campaign and pledge their support to taking part in restoration activities around the world or in their local community. THANK you Live Nation!
Children created a woodland named: Becket Copse at Hillbarn Recreation Ground, in Worthing, West Sussex, 9th March 2009
On Monday 9th March 2009 a group of 20 pupils, staff and invited guests planted in a new woodland area onto a local recreation ground. They had been working alongside the local council who kindly found them the location and prepared the site for them. The students and staff planted 100 of their trees from their already established ERS Tree Nursery to form a copse which has now been called Becket Copse.
We can weave a positive relationship with the Earth and benefit economically, providing jobs, rainfall, fertile soils, diversity and much more. What are we waiting for! Have a look at this film and get inspired to Increase your Positive Handprint!
