In 50 years one tree recycles more than $37,000 worth of water, provides $31,000 worth of erosion control, $62,000 worth of air pollution control, and produces $37,000 worth of oxygen.
Two mature trees provide enough oxygen for a family of four.
Trees help reduce the “greenhouse effect” by absorbing CO2.
Forest planting is one of the most cost-effective ways of reducing CO2. To remove 1 pound of CO2, planting tree costs less than 1 cent, developing more energy efficient appliances costs about 2 1/2 cents, and developing more fuel-efficient cars costs about 10 cents.
By cooling the air and ground around them, the shade from trees helps cool the Earth’s temperature.
Trees are good noise barriers, making a city and neighborhood quieter.
Trees help prevent city flooding by catching raindrops and offsetting runoff caused by buildings and parking lots.
Hospital patients heal faster, require shorter stays and fewer painkillers if room windows face trees.
A tree-line buffer between fields and streams helps remove farming pollutants before they reach the water.
Well placed trees help cut energy costs and consumption by decreasing air conditioning costs 10-50% & reducing heating costs as much as 4-22%.
Trees are the longest living and largest living organisms on Earth.
People who plant trees become healthier, better looking, richer, and have more friends (well maybe that’s stretching it a bit) – plant a tree and find out!
In deserts, leaves absorb moisture from the dew and frost of the cool nights and release it to cool the air during the warm days.
Trees enhance the aesthetics of our environment. Their grandeur, tenacity, and beauty are probably the most enjoyable aspect of trees.
By the community for the community
Browsing Posts published in July, 2010
Well it has been awhile since I got to this blog! I don’t know where the time goes. There is a lot of work to keeping ACP afloat. The work at the Moringa Orchard is taking off. Our trees across Zambia are all growing well. Water levels are dropping so work can know start on the promised wells. Reports from some facilitators are rather slow. But we are working around that. The slowest but most reliable and cheapest way of getting reports is through the Post Office. The internet is fine but not all facilitators are computer smart. Also they may arrive in town after traveling some distance to find the internet down. We have not got a country office as of yet so all reports come to Canada. The postage costs are paid from the sale of returnable bottles given by my fellow owners at our condominium here in Victoria. And yes, I have become a “dumpster diver”; I wonder if I should add that skill to my resume? I have lots of competition but “sorry fellow divers but I have needs too!”
Also a new web page is in the works!
Our future Moringa orchard at Mukuni village has finally got a name. After much consultation it will be called Mukasiamachoka Moringa Orchard (MMO). It is located on the main road into Mukuni Village. The perimeter fence is being built as we can afford it. A compound will soon be built on site for Luke, his wife and their new baby. Luke is the nurseryman at the tree nursery in Mukuni Village. As many Moringa will be grown on the 2 hector site as possible and they will be cared for by Luke’s wife and other young mothers from Mukuni Village. The leaves will be cured, ground into powder and packaged for sale, both locally and for export. A chalet will also be built on site for a office and accommodations for visiting foresters from Canada and ACP personnel
