Comments on: Notice more trees? Campaign aims to plant 7 billion http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/05/14/notice-more-trees-campaign-aims-to-plant-7-billion/ Global environmental challenges Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:12:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Conscientious Observer http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/05/14/notice-more-trees-campaign-aims-to-plant-7-billion/#comment-334921 Conscientious Observer Sat, 17 May 2008 17:47:44 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/05/14/notice-more-trees-campaign-aims-to-plant-7-billion/#comment-334921 Let's hope the other governments of this world wake up to the environment before it's too late. How could we get this scheme going in the Amazon, where this 'lung' of the Earth is quickly being attacked by the cancerous growth of illegal and legal land grabbers and tree clearers. The governments of the world should be assisting the Brazilian government to stop these ignorant scumbangs of further denigrating the Earth. Mind you not just in Brazil, there is the USA, Indonesia, the list goes on....Blessed be the planters of these trees. Let’s hope the other governments of this world wake up to the environment before it’s too late. How could we get this scheme going in the Amazon, where this ‘lung’ of the Earth is quickly being attacked by the cancerous growth of illegal and legal land grabbers and tree clearers. The governments of the world should be assisting the Brazilian government to stop these ignorant scumbangs of further denigrating the Earth. Mind you not just in Brazil, there is the USA, Indonesia, the list goes on….Blessed be the planters of these trees.

]]> By: jeff-naturehills http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/05/14/notice-more-trees-campaign-aims-to-plant-7-billion/#comment-334919 jeff-naturehills Sat, 17 May 2008 15:59:52 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/05/14/notice-more-trees-campaign-aims-to-plant-7-billion/#comment-334919 The goal is fantastic and hopefully can be achieved. The goal is fantastic and hopefully can be achieved.

]]> By: Ray Harrington http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/05/14/notice-more-trees-campaign-aims-to-plant-7-billion/#comment-334917 Ray Harrington Sat, 17 May 2008 13:58:46 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/05/14/notice-more-trees-campaign-aims-to-plant-7-billion/#comment-334917 Tree planting in Europe to off-set CO2 is based on a misunderstanding of trees. Most temporate trees will not reach maturity. They will die from disease or predation. Once they decay, or are burned, they release the carbon they absorbed during their life. See more info here... http://www.treenews.org.uk/sylva/can-planting-trees-save-the-planet http://www.newint.org/features/2006/07/01/keynote/ Tree planting in Europe to off-set CO2 is based on a misunderstanding of trees. Most temporate trees will not reach maturity. They will die from disease or predation. Once they decay, or are burned, they release the carbon they absorbed during their life.

See more info here…

http://www.treenews.org.uk/sylva/can-pla nting-trees-save-the-planet

http://www.newint.org/features/2006/07/0 1/keynote/

]]> By: Merci http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/05/14/notice-more-trees-campaign-aims-to-plant-7-billion/#comment-334888 Merci Fri, 16 May 2008 05:55:50 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/05/14/notice-more-trees-campaign-aims-to-plant-7-billion/#comment-334888 There is more information about the Nobel Peace Prize and Maathai on nobelprize.org. I just watched an interesting video where Maathai says she is the mother of trees. There is more information about the Nobel Peace Prize and Maathai on nobelprize.org. I just watched an interesting video where Maathai says she is the mother of trees.

]]> By: Corrina McFarlane http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/05/14/notice-more-trees-campaign-aims-to-plant-7-billion/#comment-334873 Corrina McFarlane Thu, 15 May 2008 04:39:23 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/environment/2008/05/14/notice-more-trees-campaign-aims-to-plant-7-billion/#comment-334873 Thank you for profiling this UN major Tree Planting Campaign. I made this Flowgram because I think architect William McDonough words, speak for the trees so brilliantly, I want to seed it far and wide, along with some pointers for tree-free paper choices. McDonough said: "Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, accrues solar energy to make fuel, makes complex sugars and food, creates microclimates, changes color with the seasons and self replicates. Why don’t we knock that down and write on it...?" "Paper Tigers, Tall Trees (new paper paradigm)" {2 mins}: http://beta.flowgram.com/f/p.html#JDLH09YTOIMX7O Thank you for profiling this UN major Tree Planting Campaign.

I made this Flowgram because I think architect William McDonough words, speak for the trees so brilliantly, I want to seed it far and wide, along with some pointers for tree-free paper choices.

McDonough said: “Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, accrues solar energy to make fuel, makes complex sugars and food, creates microclimates, changes color with the seasons and self replicates. Why don’t we knock that down and write on it…?”

“Paper Tigers, Tall Trees (new paper paradigm)” {2 mins}:
http://beta.flowgram.com/f/p.html#JDLH09 YTOIMX7O

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