Save the environment for the sake of all.

The importance of a wood for many sentient beings is not seen through the view of dollars.

Here a story by Lama Surya Das: A woman called Julia Butterfly Hill, a great contemporary Boddhisattva who patiently put herself through an incredible ordeal in order to help save the environment.
On December 10 in 1997, she climbed high into a thousand year old redwood tree in the headwaters Forest of Northern California. There she set up house on a little platform barely big enough for her to lie down.

Her aspiration was to prevent a logging crew from cutting down the forest because it would be impossible to do that without killing her.

For two years, Julia lived up in that tree without ever coming down. Aided by activists who sent up food, water and other supplies, she persevered through some of the biggest storms of the decade, not to mention a great deal of cold, deprivation, fear and harassment from loggers.

Meanwhile her campaign attracted the attention of celebrities, journalists and politicians, many of whom either visited her or talked with her on her mobile phone.

Among these people were harsh critics, avid supporters and those who assumed she was simply a freak. She discovered that one of her biggest challenges was learning how to interact skillfully with each kind of individual in order to further her efforts to save the tree.

Eventually on December 18 of 1999 Julia came down the tree she had affectionately named Luna. She had finally managed to strike a deal with Pacific Lumber: Maxxam Corporation to spare not only Luna but also every tree in a three-acre buffer zone around Luna.

She created life foundations to inspire, support individuals and organisations to together create an environmental and social solutions that are rooted in deeply love and respect for the interconnectedness of life.