For more information about this project, contact Dr. Hope Elizabeth May, here.
24 minute Documentary on the survivor trees in Hiroshima, originally aired on August 10, 2024, NHK World Japan.
Video #1:
May 5, 2023: Initial unboxing and planting of Gingko seeds. Eric Urbaniak (now a Central Michigan University alum) explains the project. This batch of seeds did not germinate, as explained in video #2 to the rlgith. Filmed and edited by Ava Brewer (also a Central Michigan University alum now)
Video #2:
December 1, 2023: With a new batch of seeds, and Eric now graduated, the torch is passed to the next generation of Central Sustainability students. Here, Clare LeBlanc unboxes the second batch of seeds sent by GLH. These saplings are then brought to Karin Johnson at the CMU Greenhouse shortly thereafter.
Video #3
June 28, 2024: Lauren Marshall, an alum of Kalamazoo College rounding out her education at Central Michigan University and the Cora di Brazzà Foundation helps to "rehome" the saplings moving from the CMU Greenhouse to the stewardship of the Cora di Brazzà Foundation.
