Saturday September 30, 2006, 1:37 pm
Trees are the very essence of who Mother Nature is..................So, plant a tree anyway for it can do more good than harm!!!!!

~~PLANT A SEED AND GROW A FOREST FOR MOTHER NATURE~~

Saturday September 30, 2006, 2:07 pm
I totally agree! Please, I hope nobody misjudges the point of my posting the article. Obviously, deforestation is a threat to the Earth in so many ways. The real point of the article, is not to let corporate polluters and their political friends, dupe the public of their culpability in causing global warming by phony public relations campaigns about how they are doing their part for the environment by planting trees.

Saturday September 30, 2006, 3:17 pm
Charlie, right on!! Please read my post on the recycling story. Big business and governments are more at fault than anyone else on earth.

~~PLANT A SEED AND GROW A FOREST FOR MOTHER NATURE AND THE ANIMALS~~

Sunday October 1, 2006, 11:40 am
This reminds me of a beautiful song
j'ai planté un chêne, au bout de mon champ
Ce fut ma semaine,
Perdrerais-je ma peine
J'ai planté un chêne au bout de mon champ,
Perdrerais-je ma peine, perdrerais-je mon temps?

Sunday October 1, 2006, 2:41 pm
Good Sources with Information & great charities for our Environment

Charitywatch
http://www.charitywatch.org/toprated.html#enviro

Conservation fund has also set up a project called go zero
http://www.conservationfund.org/pagespinner.asp?article=3143&back=true

It's really worth reading & Charity Watch is a great source if you are donating money like I am because I want it to really matter when I give.

Love & Light

Mari

Sunday October 1, 2006, 8:17 pm
Good post, but trees are so important anyway, even in the climate change thing! As a biologist and a tree planter and hugger, I understand the intention, but also the dilemma.

Actually, there are other factors too: the carbon cost of planting (even just ripping the soil or digging a hole releases carbon), the problem of things going wrong, eg insect attack or fire in the plantation.

NI is great, but very absolutist. I have to say that I don't agree fully with the 'baby out with the bath water' approach, although agree that the problem is the wound of pollution, not the band aid of tree planting. But we need to suck carbon out of the atmosphere and seqester it too, even if the pollution stopped today.

This doesn't have to be planting trees: more organic agriculture puts carbon into the soil. There are some good tree or agricultural sytem sequestration schemes, that can lead to benefits for local people...forest products, better soil fertility, more reliable water supplies. It just needs creativity and will. It is important for the aware to push this, not fall into the trap that a short term plantation is good.

Sunday October 1, 2006, 10:12 pm
Thank you Mari Enchanted and Nick W. Your additional thoughts and information were very educational and helpful to me. Fabienne, thank you for giving me the inspiration I needed to contact a friend who can help me translate the french from the song you so kindly offered.

Sunday October 1, 2006, 11:34 pm
Prevention is ALWAYS better than cure.... Nevertheless, when it comes to the cure, it is still better late than never.... *peace*