#replanting trees

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Spotlights illuminated the night operation of placing of a 40-foot English elm on the tiny lawn surrounding St. Patrick’s Cathedral, October 18, 1939. A dozen skilled tree movers placed the giant elm, with three more trees planted on the Fifth Avenue side of the cathedral the next day. They all matched trees that line the avenue in front of Rockefeller Center, across the street.

Photo: Anthony Camerano for the AP

[bixels]

I'm not getting into The Giving Tree discourse...

[lamina-tsrif]

miscellaneous ftf sketches bc the new video got me thinking

[spoofyleaf]

I never understood how people were confused about the fact I want a small home with a large enough yard to grow food, with my nearest neighbor being miles away, being completely surrounded by trees.

Like I grew up helping raise farm animals, with helping harvest crops and dairy. I grew up with secret recipes handed down through many generations, helping my neighbor garden. I grew up helping build walls,and nailing shingles on roofs. I grew up learning how to live alongside nature, how cruel and loving Mother Nature can be. I grew up listening to thunderstorms as I fall to sleep, and hoping the wind doesn’t tear the roof. I grew up raising new born puppies, and helping friends with home work.

I grew up knowing life is hard work for everybody, and to welcome someone into your home is to say “oh look at how the sun shines through the trees, I’ve made grape juice and apple pie, do you want some? You’re safe here and I care about you”.

I want to live a secluded life, I want to get as far away from any city that I can. I want to grow and preserve my own food. I want a hound dog or two at my side while I spend the night knitting away.

I want to grow numb to how beautiful where I live is, so when you, my dear friend, travel all the way up to visit me deep in the woods in my one bedroom home, you go “wow it’s beautiful up here” and I sigh remembering “yeah, it is, isn’t it?”

[seud-luachmhor]

[shylittleoctopus]

Behold, my 8 year old niece's very first survival minecraft house

majestic, isn't it.

also, my new pet

[shower-racoon]

Minecraft deforestation is a major problem, and my cousin is the main cause of it

[gaytobymeres]

people saying 'oh just let the sycamore gap tree stump shoot from the base' girl absolutely not

[ask-gentleman-steampunk-onceler]

ooc post!!

so I just saw that some lers have names besides their roles right and ever since I drew Steamgent (GS but the things are flipped... oh whatever I should just call him GS 💀) I'm like: he looks like a Felix. Why? I don't know- fix it felix bro /j so yuh if u want u can call him Felix bro

and he runs a repair shop n stuff so like yus because he didn't sell his thneed and was very sad and he was too sad to throw it like in the og so bro just walked home and everyone forgot about the thneed in his universe so he started a repair and robot business and got successful from that so since he only cut down the one tree the Lorax in this universe actually doesn't mind GS and because he felt bad for the Lorax he planted the tree back so yaya ummm.. what else did I need to elaborate???

Oh right GS actually can only see from one eye because of the hair covering his eye yes it's not just a design choice but what's the reason then?? well that's for me to know and you to wonder.. or ask.. but anyway um if you have ooc questions drop them in my ask box and put ooc at the top or bottom of your ask thanks btw the hair thing if anyone cares is not ooc technically since it's LORE

- silly guy that runs this blog

also shout out to sock they're poggers ok that was cringe but anyway real!!!

[not-gray-politics]

Download or keep personal physical copies (best purchased with cash to make the purchases less traceable) of all media you want to protect from erasure or censorship, by the way. tv shows, music, games, and ESPECIALLY BOOKS. Historical and scientific literature should be protected at all costs. For digital files I recommend keeping a storage device outside of your personal pc or phone. Thumb drives are inexpensive, small (easy to hide) and can hold a fairly large amount of files. Good luck.

If by some miracle sweet potato Hitler doesn't win come the end of the week, this won't be necessary, but should he win here are some of the first things to be aware of or do.

If you know a trans person, no you don't. Respect them as best you can in private but you know nothing in public.

Be aware that TikTok will likely be banned, find new platforms to spread information. Fuck Twitter and what ever tiktok replacement he's working on.

Learn to Garden, even in winter so you can feed yourself should prices skyrocket

Get an air purifier. The Clean Air Act is likely to be stripped of its power with the EPA deregulated, air quality is going to suffer

Should you have kids, try to supplement history/social studies education. That's the first place they will attack, if you need help ask, history teacher will help

Try and do what you can to be aware of your health before January.

Help one another. That's the best way we can move forward and make change in the future.

[eltristanexplicitcontent]

CAL FIRE Classic - William Shatner California Forest Improvement Program...

[dinosaurwithablog]

I love this man for what he did!!! Trees do so much for us all, and this man brought that barren land back to life!! We all need to do something like this or help each other to accomplish things of this magnitude. What a blessing he bestowed upon us all. 🙏🏼💜🌳🌳🌳

[semi-sketchy]

no one understands how much I truly hate raccoons

[kaijuno]

In Brazil, this couple planted 2 million trees in 18 years, returning 172 bird species, 33 mammals, 15 amphibians, 15 reptiles and 293 plant species to the area.

The whole world should know them. This is Lélia Wanick and Sebastião Salgado.

The couple decided to start the Terra Institute, a small organization that planted 2 million plants and revived the forest.

"There is only one creature that can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen, and that is a tree. We need to replant the forests."

Using only local plants, the couple rebuilt the entire ecosystem from scratch and the area flourished significantly, allowing the fauna to return; thanks to their work, Lélia and Sebastião saved dozens of endangered species.

"The earth was sad as I was, everything was destroyed. Then my wife got a fantastic idea to replant this forest: all the insects, fish and birds returned, and thanks to the new growth of the trees I was born again."

[reasonsforhope]

"A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new study shows.

The pioneering study of progress shows how the last 25 years of accelerated reforestation around the world might significantly pay off in the second half of the 21st century.

Using a variety of calculative methods and estimations based on satellite and temperature data from weather stations, the authors determined that forests in the eastern United States cool the land surface by 1.8 – 3.6°F annually compared to nearby grasslands and croplands, with the strongest effect seen in summer, when cooling amounts to 3.6 – 9°F.

The younger the forest, the more this cooling effect was detected, with forest trees between 20 and 40 years old offering the coolest temperatures underneath.

“The reforestation has been remarkable and we have shown this has translated into the surrounding air temperature,” Mallory Barnes, an environmental scientist at Indiana University who led the research, told The Guardian.

“Moving forward, we need to think about tree planting not just as a way to absorb carbon dioxide but also the cooling effects in adapting for climate change, to help cities be resilient against these very hot temperatures.”

The cooling of the land surface affected the air near ground level as well, with a stepwise reduction in heat linked to reductions in near-surface air temps.

“Analyses of historical land cover and air temperature trends showed that the cooling benefits of reforestation extend across the landscape,” the authors write. “Locations surrounded by reforestation were up to 1.8°F cooler than neighboring locations that did not undergo land cover change, and areas dominated by regrowing forests were associated with cooling temperature trends in much of the Eastern United States.”

By the 1930s, forest cover loss in the eastern states like the Carolinas and Mississippi had stopped, as the descendants of European settlers moved in greater and greater numbers into cities and marginal agricultural land was abandoned.

The Civilian Conservation Corps undertook large replanting efforts of forests that had been cleared, and this is believed to be what is causing the lower average temperatures observed in the study data.

However, the authors note that other causes, like more sophisticated crop irrigation and increases in airborne pollutants that block incoming sunlight, may have also contributed to the lowering of temperatures over time. They also note that tree planting might not always produce this effect, such as in the boreal zone where increases in trees are linked with increases in humidity that way raise average temperatures."

-via Good News Network, February 20, 2024

[blackpearlblast]

[ID: drawings of a golem animated by a palestinian flag painted on its forehead. it is seen: holding out its arms protectively in front of a crowd of children, the children also hold each other supportively; catching an air strike missile from the air and throwing it away or crushing it in its fist; turning its back so that a child can warm her hands by the earth oven built into its back, food in a pot is cooking on the fire and a boy holds a cup of steaming tea to his face and enjoys the aroma; clearing away rubble so a man can help up his wife who was buried underneath, she is clutching a baby to her chest; stooping down to look at a kitten a young boy is holding up to show it; and dissolving small flakes of clay from its finger into a glass of water, purifying it. end ID]

@fairuzfan asked people to create and share art for the strike. i wrote an artist statement and then set about trying to draw what i envisioned. artist statement below.

This golem is a protector that I wish I could gift to the children and adults in Gaza. The flag on its forehead is to show that love for the Palestinian people is an animating force for people fighting for a free Palestine all over the world, especially for those in Palestine who are trying to free themselves and their people. Love is the motivation for the call for a free Palestine, not hatred like people try to claim. It is very strong and fast and can catch air strikes out of midair and crush them to dust or throw them back in the direction they came from. It can lift all the rubble of a collapsed building very quickly so nobody can get trapped underneath. It has an earth oven in its back with an ever-burning flame that people can use to warm themselves and cook food and heat water to use to bathe themselves or make tea. Pieces of its clay can be crumbled up and mixed into water to make even the most brackish and unclean water pure and safe to drink.

The golem is always a bit of a tragic figure so I don't imagine it staying around forever once Palestine is free and it is no longer needed. I think it would use its great strength to help rebuild the destroyed houses, churches, schools, universities, hospitals, and mosques and then dive into the Jordan river and dissolve. It would clean the river of all pollution and make the water splash up over all the newly replanted fruit trees, causing them to grow big and strong. Its love for Palestine and its people can be tasted in the fruit they grow for generations.

I choose a specifically Jewish icon of protection because of how it feels to witness such horrors done in the supposed name of Judaism and the Jewish people. For many anti-zionist Jews, we feel like we are acting directly within the teachings of our stories and communities by opposing this genocide. It is difficult to understand how the very people and institutions who taught us these values now fight against them so fiercely. While obviously I would still oppose Israel were I not Jewish, the way I oppose Israel is directly informed by my Jewishness. I hope that someday, somehow, Judaism can bring as much joy and support to the Palestinian people as it has brought grief and destruction. That Jewish symbols used in the name of love and justice will bear more significance than the ones used in shows of hatred. Knowing the depth of the harm caused, I do not know if this is possible. But this artwork and everything I have dedicated myself to these past few months and continue to dedicate myself to in the future is born from this hope. I love you. Thank you for being on this planet with me. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! And it will be beautiful.