Kathryn Keve will present her book, Under the Sun, a book about how beautiful and precious the Earth is and ends with the question: what can we do to stop the plunder?
The book will be available at Eagle Harbor Books from April 22-25. Kathryn will be at Eagle Harbor Books from 5-7 pm on Friday April 22.
By Olaf Ribeiro
Bainbridge Island Metro Park & Recreation District
When people talk about technologies that might offset climate change, they often evoke complex and expensive methods that are just too expensive for most cities, or individuals to implement. However, there is a comparatively low cost method with little risk that can effect climate change –one that all of us can easily participate in. It is called Trees! Planting trees remains one of the cheapest and most effective means of removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (Carbon sequestration).
One tree shading a home in the city will save fossil fuel and cut carbon dioxide reducing the “Greenhouse Effect”. A single mature tree can absorb carbon dioxide @ 48 lbs/year and release enough oxygen into the atmosphere to support 2 human beings. If every American family planted just one tree, the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere would be reduced by one billion lbs. annually.
These are just some of the effects of planting trees that will be discussed in this talk as well as what efforts are taking place globally to save trees – and to plant more trees to mitigate climate change.
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