planting
What is with the crazy lead photo on the Talk Green to Us page?
Is that a cement mixer spewing ready to eat crops (I see tomatoes ripe) into a box over pavement while a crew...does what?
Realism about growing local food will get us there, having deep respectful collaboration with regional farmers, and a reciprocal relationship with the resources (nutrients as well as food) in the surrounding, protected, and arable lands.
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Aone commented
Forests and how to save them
The world's lungs
There is hope for forests, but mankind needs to move faster if they are to be savedhttp://www.economist.com/node/17093495
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Vadim commented
I like the 'crazy' lead photo on the Talk Green to Us page... because it's an interesting twist on a concept we accept as status quo. Great art is fun and makes you think.
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Valerie Durant commented
The UN identified tree planting as one of the three main tools for mitigating climate change. (UNPSC:
Sound practices often link restorative urban forestation with urban greenery initiatives as a carbon sink and as a tool for urban beautification, (ISDR, 2009:109) but rarely create linkages with community agricultural interventions which have a further benefit of providing urban food.