The fast-growing poplar tree is still being tested and considered by scientists as a biofuel alternative to finite fuels, reports The Baltimore Sun.
Researchers from the University of Maryland think fuel from “poplar could eventually replace some of the billions of gallons of petroleum-based fuel now pumped a year.”
An excerpt from the story published earlier this [...]
A flashy new graphic from a green auto industry site highlights the vital roll trees play in cleansing the environment.
Published the end of last month by Greenautoblog.com, the sourced list graphically states “It takes 240 trees to absorb the CO2 produced from one car in a single year.”
The No. 8 statistic on the chart involves [...]
In an effort to mitigate the 5,400 metric tons of carbon emitted during its ongoing world tour, Pearl Jam is going to plant trees.
A lot of trees.
According to a column in yesterday’s Seattle Times, the band that got its start in the Pacific Northwest is partnering with the Cascade Land Conservancy (CLC) and will donate [...]
Tags: carbon
The Oregonian reported yesterday that a for-profit subsidiary of Portland-based Ecotrust will begin selling carbon credits from the land it owns in the Pacific Northwest.
The deal, to be announced today, is a milestone in Ecotrust Forest Management’s long-term plan to purchase hundreds of thousands of formerly clear-cut acres from Alaska [...]
The Wilderness Society recently distributed its ‘Top 10 Carbon Storing National Forests in America,’ naming Willamette National Forest No. 1.
An excerpt from Wilderness.org:
According to United States Forest Service data, the ten national forests that store the most carbon per forested acre are all located in Western Oregon, Western Washington and Southeast Alaska.
The other [...]
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The iPhone application for street tree lovers finally exists. Of course, presently, it only exists for New York City street tree lovers.
Trees Near You chronicles all of the 500,000 street trees in New York City, providing species type, size and the estimated environmental and economic benefits provided.
As shown on the application’s Web site, users can [...]
Tags: carbon, runoff, street trees
For the first time since 1980, the City of Portland is rewriting its codes and policies, including urban forestry.
Eric Engstrom of the Portland Bureau of Planning & Sustainability (BPS)—the bureau spearheading the all-encompassing Portland Plan—presented to the Urban Forestry Commission last Thursday on their specific topic and the overall status of the project.
Calling it the [...]
Tags: BPS, carbon, development, policy
What do you get when you cross an American Sycamore with an Oriental Sycamore?
The answer is not ‘Mixed-race Sycamore.’
According to The Los Angeles Times, the result is “probably the most planted urban street tree in the world.”
This big tree, found in London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles, tolerates polluted air, compacted soil and hard [...]
A group of investors is planning to build a green oasis in a desert this year and are naming it the Sahara Forest Project, according to National Geographic.
The project is meant to create not only a green oasis in the desert, but also a completely sustainable living model that provides its own energy and food.
Trees [...]
Thanks to its two programs (Neighborhood Trees and Green Space Initiative), Friends of Trees has already planted 5,440 trees and shrubs this planting season. The same planting season that started Sept. 26.
With 32 plantings left, there is still plenty of time to roll up the sleeves and contribute to cleaning our communal air and water, [...]
According to many recent studies, slowly rising temperatures, carbon starvation and subsequent droughts are killing trees across Earth landscapes, reports The New York Times.
An excerpt: “Ecologists know how to grow trees, but we don’t know how to kill them realistically,” said Allen. “We don’t know the thresholds of tree mortality.”
The particular reasons a plant dies [...]
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A new report made available today cites “strong evidence” that exposure to traffic can produce new cases of asthma and heart ailments, reports The New York Times.
An excerpt from the story:
Exhaust from cars and trucks exacerbates asthma in children and may cause new cases as well as other respiratory illnesses and heart problems resulting in [...]
A biking geophysicist at Western Washington University is studying the effect street trees have on reducing the amount of harmful particles in the air, reports The Olympian.
In an interview with Friends of Trees, Bernard Housen described how he has found urban street trees to be good monitors of airborne pollutants, because of their ability to [...]
Tags: carbon, I-205, Metro, ODOT, street trees
Circa the 1990s, this video produced by PGE and featuring narration by the great James DePreist, outlines Portland’s street tree history from day one to the creation of Friends of Trees.
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In a study of sold homes on the east side of Portland, a new report says street trees add an average of $8,870 to sales prices and reduce time-on-market by almost two days.
The report, which will be published in Landscape and Urban Planning, is the first of its kind to examine the “effect of urban [...]