Trees
Trees absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen. They also lower air temperature, provide shade and shelter, cut down noise pollution, improve water quality, and stabilize soil. That’s a lot more than we do. The least we can do is plant more trees.
Here’s a list of things they do. And still more benefits. 22 Benefits of Urban Street Trees www.walkable.org/assets/downloads/22%20Benefits%20of%20Urban%20Street%20Trees.pdf Article by urban designer Dan Burden.Man Who Planted Trees, The Oscar-winning short film (30 min.) narrated by Christopher Plummer and based on the classic book by Jean Giono. [DVD] TreeLink Benefits of trees from the urban forestry portal Urban and Community Forestry A practical guide to sustainability from the National Arbor Day Foundation Tree City USA: Greening America Short film (8 min.) explains what community forestry is, the benefits it provides, and what individuals can do to promote it in their hometown. [VHS] “For a planting cost of $250-600 (includes first 3 years of maintenance) a single street tree returns over $90,000 of direct benefits (not including aesthetic, social and natural) in the lifetime of the tree.” How to Befriend a Tree Beginning practitioners of Chinese internal organ massage (Chi Nei Tsang) are taught how to commune with trees. Shouldn’t this be part of everyone’s education? |
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