I speak with Julietta Sorensen Kass on the power of texting trees — and the tree-texts that still bring her to tears.
S3E10 — Meet the Woman Behind Halifax’s Viral Text-A-Tree Initiative with Julietta Sorensen Kass of Our Nature
March 9, 2022
This week, I am joined by Julietta Sorensen Kass, founder of Our Nature, to discuss what a tree would say if it could talk, why people find it easier to open up to trees rather than other people, how text messaging can be used to promote human-nature relationships, the ins-and-outs of her viral Text-A-Tree initiative that saw 3,000 Haligonians send nearly 11,000 texts to 15 different trees, and the tree-texts that still bring her to tears.
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