- SPREAD THE WORD: SMALL WOOD FORESTRY IS THE SOLUTION TO FOREST COLLAPSE – INCLUDING WILDFIRE – AND AN ENORMOUS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
- Explain the forest issues, the importance of big trees, and the importance of low-intensity fire in dry forest ecology
- Actively promote this business opportunity and the critical issue it solves to thinkers, businesses, finance and economic actors
- Promote and accelerate processes of transition towards greener wood cultural and wood business practices
- Develop new small-wood business ideas statewide.
- ACCELERATE THE TRANSITION FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
- Promote and facilitate network opportunities among people who are making a difference, providing an environment for accelerating ecology-driven forestry
- Connect universities (thinkers), innovative companies (entrepreneurs) and the general public (citizens/consumers) in an ideal triangle, facilitating the development of new initiatives
- Engage with elected representatives to create social conditions that favor the solutions, not the problem.
- CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURE IN FUTURE GENERATIONS
- Spread positive and constructive messages to the general public
- Inform and train people in relations to the opportunities opened by the environmental emergency
- Promote and give maximum visibility to the work of people (scholars, scientists, activists, entrepreneurs, artists) who are breaking new grounds and making a difference in forest ecology and small-wood industry
- Create a culture that is in healthy relationship to fire.
- BECOME A MAJOR INDEPENDENT REFERENCE POINT WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL DEBATE ON HOW TO TACKLE OUT-OF-CONTROL WILDFIRE IN MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATES
- Transform the scatter-shot events and activities into a larger, and ongoing effort:
- Encourage continuing artist engagement with forest and fire
- Continue communication efforts explaining forest issues
- Continue promoting policy change
- Continue expanding cutting-edge management tools and strategies
- Conduct efforts dedicated to the specific problems of each area of the world that suffers from damaging wildfire
- Transform the scatter-shot events and activities into a larger, and ongoing effort:
(objectives adapted from Festival for the Earth)