Tracey West

Tracey West

Author, Broadcaster, CEO Word Forest

Tracey is a passionate environmentalist, an author and broadcaster on sustainable living and she coined the phrase, ‘slow down and green up’ when she created International Downshifting Week. She’s the CEO and co-founder of international reforestation charity, Word Forest and is leading the mission to empower women and reforest Kenya. Since 2011, she has been a noisy, active Patron of Dorset Women CIC, an organisation that helps women and girls in crisis. Tracey is also 8 years vegan. Over a decade ago, she was named one of the Top 100 Positive Influencers by The Ecologist and in 2022, she won a PEA Award (People Environment Achievement) in the category: vegan.

 

 

Saturday August 24th
1.30

How Bring & Share Vegan Lunches Are Combatting the Climate Crisis

Find out how the Word Forest Bring & Share Vegan Lunches are bringing communities together to enjoy plant based food and mitigate the climate crisis. See how this UK charity is spreading the word about permaculture and organic growing, putting a dent in malnutrition, hunger and poverty across Kenya. Tracey and Simon West reveal all, with assistance from Kate Winslet (narrating a film, not in person).

Talks & Panels full timetable

Saturday
1pm

How to Host a Vegan Bring and Share

This uplifting presentation from the founders of international reforestation charity, Word Forest, is designed to inspire you and give you all the tools you need to become a host of a Bring & Share Vegan Lunch. The proceeds from it are helping to reforest Kenya and relieve hunger and poverty.

 

Workshops 2 full timetable

Saturday
5pm

Rewilding and Restoring Natural Habitats

 

Rewilding is a popular solution to the climate and biodiversity crisis. It provides hope for decarbonisation, while also returning land back to animals. Equally, rewilding needs vast amounts of land and is critically bound up with the need to transition to a plant-based food system.

Why then are vegan activists and organisations avoiding the rewilding message? And can we hope to achieve animal freedom without first restoring ecosystems?

In this discussion, we will delve into the root of Britain’s nature crisis and tackle difficult questions on nature’s complexity and wild animal suffering. Only together, through this nuance, can we begin to develop a vision for a new world, a world of animal freedom.

 

Celebration Stage full timetable