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Replacing Your Lawn? Try Planting Pawpaw or Persimmon Trees
Your first taste of a ripe pawpaw or persimmon can leave you hungry for more. That’s why Michael Judd is confident that he can persuade you to make room for several of these trees in your front yard — or even to surrender your lawn altogether.
Turning your yard into a meadow or blanketing it in an expanse of alternative ground covers aren’t the only ecologically viable options for replacing conventional grass.
Mr. Judd, an edible landscape designer and permaculturist,
Planting trees = saving lives – EURACTIV.com
A third of heat-related deaths in Europe could have been prevented by increasing tree coverage by 30%, a recent study has found, putting an exact number on the impact that green urban planning can have on citizens.
This summer’s breeze was not as refreshing as usual. With heatwaves across Europe, staying in cities not built for record-high temperatures was not easy.
Streets covered with tarmac and building materials absorbing and trapping heat with no green spaces make urban environments especially
More worrying footage shows Biden looking confused after tree planting event at White House
As the oldest person ever sworn in to the White House, President Joe Biden has faced questions and concerns over his mental as well as physical acuity since taking one one of the most stressful jobs in the world.
But aside from his advanced age, Biden, 79, has worried even supporters with numerous gaffes over the year he’s been in office.
JANUARY 24, 2022 – BIDEN CALLS PETER DOOCY A ‘STUPID SON OF A B*****’
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Why Ambitious Tree Planting and Carbon Offset Projects Are Failing – Mother Jones
More than 9,000 people in Leh, India, planted more than 50,000 tree saplings in under an hour on October 10, 2010.
Drukpa Publications via Wikipedia
This story was originally published by YaleE360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
It was perhaps the most spectacular failed tree planting project ever. Certainly the fastest. On March 8, 2012, teams of village volunteers in Camarines Sur province on the Filipino island of Luzon sunk over a million mangrove
Why planting tons of trees isn’t enough to solve climate change
Trees are symbols of hope, life and transformation. They’re also increasingly touted as a straightforward, relatively inexpensive, ready-for-prime-time solution to climate change.
When it comes to removing human-caused emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from Earth’s atmosphere, trees are a big help. Through photosynthesis, trees pull the gas out of the air to help grow their leaves, branches and roots. Forest soils can also sequester vast reservoirs of carbon.
Earth holds, by one estimate, as many as 3 trillion