1.
Plant 100 Billion "bio-diverse" Trees
There are as many as 1000 different tree
types in a rainforest. The Tiger Forest has as many trees as all the
rainforests combined. You should have at least one. If you haven't got
a tree, get to know one.
3.
Renewable Energy Power & Water
"Put Solar on every rooftop" (never need
power cables again). The house of the future would have its' own power
water and food resources... and the future is now.
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Trees,
Soil, Carbon Credits
and Renewables.
The
combined effort of renewable
farming, carbon credits
for soil sequestration
planting
trees and going solar, is achievable within
several years.
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2.
Soil
Carbon Sequestration
Did
you know that soil can sequester more
CO2 than trees? The idea of buying carbon credits (like planting trees)
to offset pollution can now include
"soil
carbon sequestration".
4.
The Love
And all this can be achieved now - with todays technology - we just
need the Will. Speak up now and vote for Trees, Soil, Carbon Credits
and Renewables.
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1.
Plant 100 billion
biodiverse trees
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Support carbon trading for Soil Carbon Sequestration Farming
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Ramp up
renewable research
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Dr Christine
Jones
The
deep-rooted perennial plant species tops the list for best carbon
sequestration -
TV News 23 nov'06 Dramatic finds on Soil Sequestration says Dr
Christine
Jones stated extraordinary global sequestration claims. Having read
about
this before, I wasn't too surprised, but as a real world solution -
it's possibly something achievable to aim for.
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THE STERN REVIEW
THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
The benefits of strong, early action
on
climate change outweigh the costs.
The
effects of our actions now on future changes in the climate have long
lead times. What we do now can have only a limited effect on the
climate over the next 40 or 50 years. On the other hand what we do in
the next 10 or 20 years can have a profound effect
on the climate in the second half of this century and in the
next.
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Carbon
Coalition
"We urge
governments and the business
community to
acknowledge the role
that agricultural soils can play in addressing the Global Warming
crisis. Farmers can play a central role in sequestering carbon in their
soils by fostering deep-rooted perennial plant species that have
significant biomass in their root systems."
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Climate Future
Is Not Yet Written
Soil
Carbon Sequestration
© 2006 by J.J.Zulaikha
last updated 14 Aug 2006
The blanket of
greenhouse gases GHGs allows sunlight to pass and reach earth, but when
they hit earth, they turn into heat and become trapped. The
planting of billions of biodiverse trees shrubs and grasses will store
CO2 as carbon and is probably our best
bet to "lift" the blanket to allow the heat to escape and the planet to
cool.
Not only can trees convert CO2 into carbon storage:
1. Trees become carbon sinks
2. Trees clean the air and make oxygen
3. Trees are part of the water cycle
4. Trees cool the
earth with shade
5. Trees cools the
wind through respiration
6. Trees provide
habitat for animals and birds
7. Trees provide
undergrowth for bugs and insects
8. Trees fight soil erosion
9. Trees increase property value
10. Trees absorb noise and buffer urban noise
Trees assist local
and global stability and are
intrinsic to the well-being of the entire global ecosystem.
Trees are a real
combatant
in Species Extinction, Global Warming and Climate Change. This site
advocates tree awareness and wants YOUR
VOTE!
Dear reader, the bottomline is arresting pollution - the final solution
is being able to produce clean renewable energy. The steps inbetween
include attempting to produce clean coal via geosequestration and/or
burying nuclear waste - both are temporary fixes - both involve
expensive unproven
burying techniques - neither are final solutions.
Renewables like solar have zero fuel cost and zero pollution
and I ask you, if clean renewable technology exists - and it does - why
settle for
second best or go the long way round?
VOTE YES!
1. Plant
100 billion biodiverse trees
2. Support carbon
trading for Soil Biomass Carbon Sequestration Farming.
3. Ramp-up renewables
Only with a biodiverse
multiculture - many different varieties and species of trees
plants grasses and flowers - can we revive natures creatures and
inhabitants and reverse Climate Change.
Only with
renewable energy resources - like solar wind
and wave - and by working
in with Nature - can we arrest
pollution and help restore Earths' ecosystem.
Only together, by global voting, can we determine the course.
If reverse Species Extinction, reverse Global Warming and reverse Climate Change
sounds
too good to be true - it probably is - but imagining the impossible
deems it possible - so dare to imagine WE CAN UNITE AS ONE PEOPLE OF
THE PLANET EARTH DRAWN TOGETHER WITH A COMMON CAUSE OF GLOBAL
PROPORTION AND VOICE OUR COLLECTIVE GLOBAL OPINION [1] MORE TREES
PLEASE [2] MORE CARBON SINKS - identified plants species and soils [3]
RENEWABLES
the prefered source of power.
. VOTE YES !
Please
Note:
*100 billion is a symbolic number.
*The
number of trees plants shrubs grasses planted will be essentially
determined by
the farmer and market value, be it subsidized by the government, or
not.
*A technological bridge could be a system reliant upon coal "now" but
can be
easily reto-fitted to a renewable source at a later date. This bridge
would also transit the working force.
EARTH
CHANGES
People
of planet earth,
water is scarce
and we have an insatiable need for more energy. Fossil fuels are
still driving
greenhouse - trees are diminishing whilst population expands. and the
weather is different globally. The Earth is changing, and we are apart
of the change - whether through our own making or not.
The easy way out is to go nuclear. The easy way is paved with problems.
Just let me say "terrorists dream" and move on. We could easily fix the
problem by switching off, but we can't and we won't - we want to
maintain our lifestyles. So the inventor must give you a lot of what
you really want - lots of power and water - whilst moving responsibly forward.
As
a closet inventor of renewable ideas
- the penny dropped last week. Any
new large scale renewable energy solution might
be clean from day one - but won't have any affect on the
100 years of pollution stored in the sky - it just won't contribute any
more pollution. As for all the inventions I know
-
I do not see any focussed towards cleaning up the greenhouse. Perhaps
it's too big a bite to contemplate.
Then
another penny
dropped. Both global warming
and climate change are global
events - and any fix would have to be of global proportion - and
even though I took the long way round - the
answer emerged was "tree".
Trees can't be patented - but they can be
planted - on a global scale - and this "invention" is available to
virtually every one of us on a grass roots level (no pun intended) with
unprecedented
significance.
The
question must be asked, "Can
we combat global warming and climate change with more trees?".
Since
trees cool the earth's surface and ALSO is someone's home - cooling and
habitable - trees
simultaneously address both Global Warming and Climate Change issues.
the tree
the ultimate renewable machine
100 billion trees
The
tree turns out to be the "inventors invention".
Not
only
does it convert
CO2 into carbon and store it in its trunk and branches - in doing so
it
becomes a valuable carbon sink. Taking into account - they are
only carbon sinks for the time they are living trees - once they die
and decompose they release all of their CO2 back
into
the
atmosphere. That's why the Amazon and old forests are so
valuable - and so dangerous to destroy.
The analogy of removing the
lungs of the planet is accurate enough - as we cut more trees, we
lessen the
planets ability to cycle CO2 into air. We ALSO miss the processing of
water and miss ALSO the habitit for the animal kingdom whilst ALSO
releasing hundreds of
years worth of CO2
back into the atmosphere - which is precisely topsy-turvey.
A
tree performs many jobs - you might call it multi purpose: absorbs
CO2 - makes
oxygen - collects and stores water - rains upwards against gravity -
builds humus - provides shelter - the roots sow the land and the head
provides shade - cools the breeze - breaks wind
and still looks good - and all it needs is water - all from a seed -
grows itself powered by renewables and is systemic amongst a
complexity of processes.
As
you can see with the many droughts that surround us - so many systems
rely upon the tree - and without enough
trees many systems will suffocate dry up and diminish. THE TREE is the
vital link in the chain of the ecosystem - remove it and things
fail - replace it and we may afford a kick-start out of global
warming.
The
multiplicity of eco processes invoked by deep forests are
observed and studied but still not fully understood. But undeniably the
tree has managed itself for millions of years and we must allow it
to
continue to do it's job - but since we removed so many trees - and we
burdon further by our very presence - it's ALSO
up to
us to put them back. Remove a vital part from any machine and it will
stop - we must replace the part.
We
have
cleared the land to make way for
cash-crops and grazing and we must find a way to compensate - and I
think it's through carbon trading.
The
effect by removing trees
not only inhibits their ability to interact in balance with the planets
eco but ALSO exposes the planet to climate
change - and by continuing to
produce more greenhouse gases (GHG's) the remaining trees are expected
to cope with the
load - increased by 6 billion people. This is a tripple whammy against
the planet.
VOTE YES !
we need to manage our planets
ecosystem
and its resources
from a global perspective
At
best, the forests that we
(you and I) are planning now (and yet to be planted) must mature and
convert enough CO2 into carbon to make a temperature "difference". This
has to be done in "time" - and my best guess to date is before the
"tipping point" - when the warming melts the polar caps.
Planting
a single variety of tree - monoculture - may be good as far as cash
turnover - but it falls short of expectation.
The trees I'm imagining are large that stand for 100's of years - best
determined type by scientists and ecologists. And of
course there are major developments in all areas of forestry to reduce
greenhouse per yield as in the case of organic agriculture.
There will be no one solution, there will be many. Trees are just so
fundamental to the cycle of life that it gives us the ability to be
hands on, each and everyone of us.
The Tree Of Peace brought
together the 5 Great Indian Nations to form a
hand and be as one. Today the tree can bring the whole world together
in a peaceful movement that plays a role in determining our planets
fate. We may eventually learn to take charge of our planet with a
global eco management (GEM) plan that regulates our planets temperature
with
the number of trees in circulation.
Apart
from the benefit of absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing
as carbon - trees become a carbon sink which as a commodity is valuable
and tradeable. Trees also process water into rain while shedding leaves
and cooling the ground beneath - which promotes humus and organisms to
enrich the soil - and so begins the food chain for bugs and beetles -
habitat for animals and birds - and provides beautiful
conditions of sustainable life on earth for all life.
And so can the tree species combat global warming and climate change?
Can you do anything about it? Look
outside your window now and observe the spaces between the trees -
could you plant more trees there - probably. You would have to research
the best type of tree
and get permission, and you could plant a few trees. It's possible we
could easily double and
tripple the numbers of trees on our street. Local water re-cycling
could be the most efficient way of watering them without interferring
with your main water supply or they may have to survive on rain and
ground water.
Trees
are our best chance to
nurture
the planets ecosystem back to the state that supports us all - we took
what
we want and now we must put them back. With 6
billion population and growing and now with China and India coming
on-line - GHG's are tipped to explode. The only solution available that
can be implemented and restore
our ecosystem in time is with trees.
Until
further researched 100 billion just sounded good: 200
countries @ 1 billion trees - halved - equals 100 billion trees -
and like the ultimate well oiled sun-air-water-re-cycling machine -
a far denser and richer earth cycle is revived using the amazing multi
purpose user friendly "tree".
In short I'm betting we get rain
and save a lot more species including ourselves.
one billion hearts
one billion
dreams
100 billion trees
VOTE YES !
Renewable
Ecology
A
Global Ecology Revolution
:: Soil
Carbon Sequestration
Farming
"Climate
Future is Not Yet Written"
© 2006 by J. J.
Zulaikha
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TREES
The idea that 100
billion biodiverse trees will
reverse
Global
Warming & Climate Change may be a dream... but if there is any
truth to the nightmare looming, lying under the shade of
a tree is a slice of heaven... which on a hot day everyone would agree.
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RENEWABLES
Planting
trees may be effective in lifting the blanket of CO2 - but that's only
half the solution - commonsense demands we ALSO stop polluting.
We have an excess of CO2 in the atmosphere which needs to be ramped
down whilst renewables ramp up. An increase of trees and a decrease of
pollution by employing renewables.
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Organics
Solutions to
Climate Change
Very
importantly organic agriculture can help reverse
climate change. Published peer review scientific studies in North
America and Europe show that best practice organic agriculture, not
only emits less greenhouse gases than conventional agriculture, the
carbon sequestration from increasing soil organic matter leads to a net
reduction in greenhouse gases.
According
to the Rodale Institute "U.S.
agriculture as currently practiced emits a total of 1.5 trillion pounds
of CO2 annually into the atmosphere. Converting all
U.S. cropland to organic would not only wipe out agriculture's massive
emission problem, by eliminating energy-costly chemical fertilizers,
it
would actually give us a net increase in soil carbon of 734 billion
pounds." On a worldwide scale, if we had hundreds of millions of
hectares of organic farming it would equate to removing billions of
tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere.
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"...forests can become a weapon
in our arsenal to break global warming
if foresters
practice enlightened stewardship. Sustainable forestry will need to
become the standard on all forest lands globally."
The U.S. government�s policy of greenhouse
gas
reductions recognizes
carbon sequestration as a factor in the management of industry
emissions. Because forests are sequestering carbon, forest managers
would be paid by industry for maintaining carbon sinks, creating a
�credit� on emissions by industry towards meeting emission reduction
goals. In the U.S., forests (including vegetation, soils, and harvested
wood) accounted for approximately 85 percent of the total terrestrial
sequestration of CO 2. (902.5 Tg CO2 Eq. in 2000)
The Tree That Changed the World
The Tree of Life, � 2001 by John Perlin
TEMPERATE
FOREST
FOUNDATION
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THE
WEATHER HAS NO
BORDERS
Climate Change crosses borders - man-made lines on
maps are meaningless - and governments limited by these borders
are
powerless to manage globally.
There is no global body entrusted with
a global eco perspective or
authority. The United Nations is our only hope and we need to get the
voice of reason heard like a hot knife through butter.
G.E.M.
GLOBAL ECO MANAGEMENT
We must now pool our resources
together and implement a global strategy to combat global climate
change.
With the aid of internet connectivity, we can coordinate tree
projects and most imortantly we can speak
and act as One - we can have a global voice.
The United Nations and all our governments are without definitive
answers - now they require the voice of the
people to direct them. We,
the people, are that voice. And when we speak - as One - with common
sense and conviction - we will be heard.
This is your global voice.
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Planting
biodiverse trees provides a
multicultural diversity of
greenery from trees to shrubs to grasses and provides a home for
animals and birds.
It makes no sense to continue the practice of clearing natural
vegetation to plant monocultures just for carbon trading.
From
microhabitats in your
backyard to forests and ecosystems on a large scale, trees form a
global network of biodiversity.
We are facing Species Extinction that will put us back 5 million years.
We have 100 years to fix Global Warming and Climate Change but Species
Extinction is forever. Trees are
half the solution. Halting pollution is the other.
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Heat
Islands
Studies have shown that parts of cities without cooling shade from
trees can literally be "heat islands," with temperatures as much as 12
degrees Fahrenheit higher than surrounding areas.
The
Urban Tree Book
Particular
awareness
should be introduced and educated to the people of the cities of the
world who can respond by planting trees in their local neigbourhood.
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Expanding Forests
The role of
"sinks"
The world at
large
currently
doesn't "pay" much for the positive effects of forests.
The value of trees as lumber and as firewood, and the value of the land
they occupy for housing or farming, tend to be short-term and specific.
In fact,
these
benefits may be a matter of survival in some regions.
The value of forests for preventing global warming and preserving the
earth's biodiversity, by contrast, are long-term and their rewards
apply to everyone generally.
A way has to
be
found to make the
expansion and nurturing of forests appealing and cost-effective to the
local populations that usually decide their fate.
United
Nations "Feeling_the_Heat"
Changing agricultural
methods
* Carbon stored in
agricultural
soils
often can be preserved or
enhanced by switching to "no-tillage" or "low-tillage" techniques,
which slow the rate at which organic soil matter decomposes.
* In rice fields, emissions of
methane, a
powerful greenhouse gas,
can be suppressed to some extent through tillage practices, water
management, and crop rotation.
* Using nitrogen fertilizers
more
efficiently can reduce emissions of nitrous oxide, another potent
greenhouse gas.
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100
Billion Trees
Planting 100 billion trees to
reverse GW & CC strictly speaking, is only
achievable if the forests that are
being planned for now (and planted tomorrow - which will take time to
mature) can convert enough CO2 into
carbon to make a "difference" - a degree cooler - most probably before
the tipping point when the warming melts the polar caps.
And is
conditional
upon the trees being protected to continue to "live and grow and store"
the carbon
for years to
come - at
least
until we've changed over to renewables and can afford to release the
CO2 stored progressively.
Planting
trees
doesn't
mean we can continue polluting - We ALSO need to switch to renewables
like solar and replace carbon fuels as soon as
possible.
So right or wrong at
least there's a target to aim for, let's say 2050. That gives us 40
years of tree growth if we plant within 2-5 years. Let's say by
2010-12.
There's our deadline to have planted 100 billion trees or as many trees
as possible
in accordance with your local council authority. It's best to
familiarize your
council's advice as they have a plan and we'd like you to fit in.
You might like to inform your local council and direct them towards our
web site.
Whatever
specific type of tree or latest best
methods
to store CO2 will vary according to your situation - please
consult local advise. Remember, the tree you
plant may outlive you, so plant it well.
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Is
Global Warming Climate
Change and Species Extinction real or exaggerated?
There's always different points of
view and conflicting stories. Not everone agrees. I cannot confirm one
way or the other but I prefer to air on the side of caution. That's why
the simplest approach may suit the most people. More trees and less
pollution is totally sane whilst the outcome is a beautiful clean
world.
The awareness of such a threat pre-empts and should
be
recognized as such. The most probable outcome is an increase in the
planets temperature and should be treated as top priority. Apart from
more trees
my suggestion is ALSO to ramp-up our
attention towards renewables like Solar Wind and Wave because the fuel is given freely by nature - does
not pollute or produce waste - and will never run out. Total
fantasy
perhaps but John Lennon, the consumate "dreamer" might
have been right - I may not be the only one. With a matter of urgency we should ramp-up
research on renewables.
The British during the Black Plague after they discovered the link
between sewerage
and Cholera went about re-building London's
Sewerage System to separate
the two - The Hoover Dam
- The Panama
and Suez Canals -
The Snowy
Mountains Scheme and World's biggest China's new Three Gorges Dam.
All of these larger than life events carve the course of history
through human
mate-ship leadership and endurance. See the Seven
Wonders of the
Industrial World.
Humans when faced with a challenge can focus on finding a solution.
Together we are powerful force that can re-shape the planet - and it
always
starts with
an idea, a vision, followed by work.
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Carbon
Sink
"What's a
good
carbon
sink?"
A
good
carbon
sink is a "tree" that is protected in a long-term program
developed by global ecologists and scientists.
A good
carbon
sink is any existing forest like the Amazon.
A good
carbon
sink is
achieved by "organic soil" sequestration.
A good
carbon
sink is
the Ocean.
The phrase
"100
Billion
Trees" is not limited to just trees - but includes soils plants and
other sequesting methods.
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