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What Are You Gonna Do to Make a Difference? An Interview with Julia Butterfly Hill

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An Interview with Julia Butterfly HillWhat Are You Gonna Do to Make a Difference?
An Interview with Julia Butterfly Hill

– by Tera Warner

Two years ago as part of our Believe in Green event, we raised $10,000 for the Lower East Side Girls Club through a series of 10 inspiring calls designed to raise awareness and responsibility for improving the conditions of life on this spinning blue ball of LOVE!

Sometimes we put off doing what we could to use less plastic or be more conscious of our consumption because it’s “inconvenient” or because there are so many hurdles to overcome.

Julia Butterfly Hill persisted in the face of incredible obstacles, illness, weather, death threats, hunger and more emotional pain than we may really understand. She persisted in spite of all the obstacles against her for more than two years.

She stayed up perched in the canopy of an ancient redwood tree named Luna, and she stayed there until she reached her goal.

And she touched millions of lives by doing it and with her help we raised $10,000 for the Girl’s Club!

To finish off our Earth Week celebrations we present to you this interview where Julia Butterfly Hill inspires us all to Believe in Green:

Meet Julia Butterfly Hill

An Interview with Julia Butterfly HillJulia Lorraine “Butterfly” Hill is an environmentalist, poet, writer, educator, speaker, and founder of the organization Circle of Life. She earned international fame as an environmental activist by protecting an old-growth forest in northern California from clear-cutting by a logging company. To prevent the logging, she lived in one of the trees ­ a 1,000-year-old redwood known as “Luna” ­ for 738 days until an agreement was reached with the Pacific Lumber Company.

Enduring not only illness and the forces of nature but also the efforts of Pacific Lumber to bring her down, Hill established the longest activist “tree sit” in the world, the prior record having been ninety days in England. Eventually a legal agreement was reached that provided for the preservation of Luna and all the trees within the three acres surrounding it; in return, Pacific Lumber received a $50,000 payment that was provided by Hill, with the stipulation that it be donated to a local college, Humboldt State University.

Her courage, commitment and profound clarity in articulating a message of hope, empowerment, and love and respect for all life has inspired millions of people worldwide.

  • Founder of the Circle of Life, an organization devoted to environmental education and activism
  • Youngest person ever elected to the Ecology Hall of Fame
  • Named by John F. Kennedy Jr., in George magazine, as one of the twenty most influential women in politics
  • Co-founder of the Engage Network and the inspiration behind What?s Your Tree

And so, in honor of a determined spirit and a green vision of a better world, I’m delighted to present to you this tear-jerking interview with Julia Butterfly Hill.

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Living and Loving Green,

Tera