Oct 14 2008
A CO2 Mitigation Initiative That Makes Sense
We here at GlobalWarmingFactFinder.com are often asked, “what can we do to stop Global Warming?” Frankly, as we see it, there isn’t anything you can do to stop it, as it appears to be a natural occurance and cycle of the earth that is happening whether we like it or not. But we do contribute a little bit to the CO2 that is created. But saddly, there is little we can do about that also as we contribute less than 3% of the overall annual contribution to the atmosphere (see “Global Warming is Causing the Rise in CO2″). But one thing that will help to scrub carbon dioxide from the air is vegetation and trees. And we found someone who is helping on that front.
The Walt Disney Company recently announced a grant of $1.5 million to go to the Tree People to plant trees in the mountain areas around the Southern California area. The grant which is to help reforest fire-ravaged areas around Southern California is being given to the TREE People which is a non profit organization dedicated to healing our cities and urban areas by promoting the planting of trees and educating people on their care and 
upkeep. They also strive to educate and inform community leaders on the importance of trees and sustainable solutions to urban ecosystem problems. This grant will go towards their Wildfire Restoration Initiative, making Disney their biggest financial supporter.
Southern California has be ravaged by wildfires over the last few years that have wiped out large areas of mature trees and forests in the mountains that surround Southern California. Trees play a major roll in keeping our air clean by scrubbing CO2 out of the air through the natural process of photosynthesis. It is nature’s way of dealing with Carbon Dioxide, a gas now being blamed for Global Warming. By replanting large areas of forests that have been damaged by wildfires, we can do more to offset the rise in Carbon Dioxide than with any man made mechanical or artificial solution.
Initiatives like this make sense because is represents something that we can all participate in by either planting trees or helping in the care and nurturing of trees in the areas where we live. It should be our mission, as it is for the Tree People, to inspire, engage and support people to take personal responsibility for the urban environment, making it safe, healthy, fun and sustainable and to share the results as a model for the world, rather than whine an complain about the changes that occur in our environment. By taking personal action we can each do something to contribute to overall objective. It is ultimately up to us to achieve the changes we need to ensure that our world remains a sustainable, renewable resource.
If you truly want to do something about the CO2 in the atmosphere, plant trees, lawns, shrubs and all nature of flora. Let photosynthesis do the work.
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This sounds reasonable. If we all planted just one tree we could probably start to reverse the build up of CO2. Just a thought.
Thanks for the post
I recently read that a lawn contributes a lot of oxygen to the atmosphere and takes away a lot of the carbon dioxide. I see a lot of people where I live taking out their lawns because of cut backs on water usage. Shouldn’t we be leaving them in? If you put in a bunch of rock instead of grass, that’s going to reflect back a lot of heat into the atmosphere, unlike a lawn which is cool.
Thanks for your blog. More people need to read this.
Linda
When they develope a new area in Southern California, they take an area that is mostly desert with no actively growing plants, and create beautiful landscaped parcels with trees, shrubs and lawns. That’s got to help too.
Plant a tree.