The Hollywood Forest Story, South Carlow

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The Hollywood Forest Story : An EcoSocial Art Practice | Co. Carlow Ireland – Since 2008, The Hollywood Forest Story tells how new-to-Ireland continuous cover forestry is transforming a small conifer plantation into a permanent, mixed species forest. Its one new story for Earthly wellbeing. Its also a story of the social power of ecosocial art practice to foster ecoliteracy and agency for creative practitioners and their audiences. Such work contributes an 'ecological turn' for an eduring wiser, compassionate and more beautiful world.

The above short video shares the early stages of the transformation of Hollywood Forest in South County Carlow, Ireland, that has become "the little wood that could". There is no human dialogue, rather, the forest inhabitants will show you the changes. Hollywood forest began as a small conifer monoculture plantation like much of the world's…