Turning back the ravages of greenhouse gas accumulation in our Earth’s atmosphere will require a multitude of societal commitments: eliminating fossil fuel consumption, changing the way we farm, and restoring the trees in natural ecosystems that absorb and thrive on excess carbon dioxide. Kitty Gladstone, in her last several years of activist life, pushed in all of her spheres of influence to find ways to plant trees and let them do their astonishing work of rectifying our climate.
In the New World tropics, trees grow astoundingly fast and draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at impressive rates as they grow. Trees can be incorporated into agricultural and home garden landscapes easily, as direct producers of fruit, wood and firewood and indirectly as shade in agroforestry systems and habitat for pollinators including bees. In these landscapes, trees are cared for as part of the work of farmers.
Lone Tree Institute’s 15 years of experience in ecological restoration of the Chorotega Biocultural Region have generated the technical knowledge, community respect and trust, scale-up nurseries and trained personnel to implement a large-scale afforestation project such as 29,000 on farms in its surrounding communities.
Let’s Plant 29,000 Tropical Trees
Turning back the ravages of greenhouse gas accumulation in our Earth’s atmosphere will require a multitude of societal commitments: eliminating fossil fuel consumption, changing the way we farm, and restoring the trees in natural ecosystems that absorb and thrive on excess carbon dioxide. Kitty Gladstone, in her last several years of activist life, pushed in all of her spheres of influence to find ways to plant trees and let them do their astonishing work of rectifying our climate.
In the New World tropics, trees grow astoundingly fast and draw down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at impressive rates as they grow. Trees can be incorporated into agricultural and home garden landscapes easily, as direct producers of fruit, wood and firewood and indirectly as shade in agroforestry systems and habitat for pollinators including bees. In these landscapes, trees are cared for as part of the work of farmers.
Lone Tree Institute’s 15 years of experience in ecological restoration of the Chorotega Biocultural Region have generated the technical knowledge, community respect and trust, scale-up nurseries and trained personnel to implement a large-scale afforestation project such as 29,000 on farms in its surrounding communities.