A Year After is a slow journal of events, policies, and discoveries, published by Trees for the Forest Publishing.
Unlike traditional news, which reports immediately and reacts in real time, A Year After revisits events only after time has passed — one year, five years, ten years, twenty years, or fifty years. This delay allows for context, outcomes, and perspective that are not visible in the moment.
A core tenet of this website is that we do not report on recent events. They are too new, and the information changes rapidly. Instead, we focus on the outcomes of events for which we now have clearer and more concrete evidence. While revisions to older information do occur, they are less frequent, and the distance of time gives us space to separate fleeting opinion from enduring outcome.
The journal is organized into five sections:
- Building — what humans construct: cities, infrastructure, institutions, governance.
- Discovery — what humans learn: science, medicine, archives, knowledge.
- Production — what humans create: energy, industry, agriculture, labor.
- Nature — the world we live in: climate, ecosystems, land, and water.
- Time — the long arc: endurance, change, continuity across decades.
All articles are plain text. They avoid interpretation, commentary, or opinion. Each piece records observed outcomes, measurable effects, and ongoing questions, using publicly available sources.
The purpose is simple: to replace reaction with reflection, and to preserve a record of what humanity builds, learns, makes, lives within, and carries forward.
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