Air Conditioning With Roots

They trap heat, cool the air, block the sun, eat carbon and well, they are just so beautiful.

Here I am again harping on about trees. But the thing is, they are one of the best ways to offset your carbon footprint as well as help the planet heal itself.

Trees store carbon dioxide and release oxygen. They take in the bad air and release good air. The amount of carbon a tree can store over a lifetime depends on the size and type of tree. So the more new trees that are planted the greater their collective healing power. Trees can help cool the earth down a bit, especially when planted in the right places. They are a natural defense against the harmful effects of global warming and a counterbalance to the cityscape of factories, power plants and traffic jams.

And the fact that planting trees doesn’t cost a lot of money, puts them on the top of my green bargains list. A couple of bucks will plant a tree. And these days, you don’t even have to plant them yourself. Offsetcarbonfootprint.org will plant them for you. At this website, $25.00 will plant 25 trees! I have a Christmas gift idea stirring in my brain.

After figuring out the actual amount of carbon you as an individual put into the atmosphere, the urge to do something about it can be overwhelming. Often we don’t know where to start and think anything we do now will take years, decades to have any effect. But with trees, the minute their leaves show up, they will help the planet.

Trees aren’t a hard sell, they are a wise investment. Simply put without the trees, we die. The planet dies, everything goes to pot. With the trees, there is a chance for cleaner air, less soil erosion, richer soil and more aesthetic beauty in the world.