Sentences with phrase «as planting trees»

Of course, Earth Day, which falls on April 22, is a great time to plan environmentally friendly team - building activities, such as planting trees or cleaning up a local park or wilderness area.

She also identifies opportunities for us to have a restorative impact on the environment such as planting trees and helping to build renewable energy sources.

Many positive actions such as planting trees and recycling do not directly reduce the amount of area needed to support each person.

In fact, the Coalition has repeatedly insisted that Direct Action measures «make sense anyway» even if climate change did not exist — «sensible» things such as planting trees.

Climate neutrality means net zero emissions, or that any emissions from burning fossil fuels are offset by measures such as planting trees that soak up carbon dioxide as they grow.

Mitigation refers to an action that will reduce or prevent greenhouse gas emissions, such as planting trees in order to absorb more CO2.

Reporter, Paul Merrion appeared to find some comfort that while CCX will cease all trading of new emission allowances at the end of the year, «it will continue trading carbon offsets generated by projects that consume greenhouse gases, such as planting trees.»

For example, responses to recent historical climate variability and change in four locations in southern Africa demonstrated that people were highly aware of changes in the climate, including longer dry seasons and more uncertain rainfall, and were adjusting to change through collective and individual actions that included both short - term coping through switching crops and long - term adaptations such as planting trees, and commercialising and diversifying livelihoods (Thomas and Twyman, 2005; Thomas et al., 2005).

When we talk about the environmental benefits of solar power, we often talk about how installing a solar energy system can have the same effect on the environment as planting trees.

REDD - plus folds in additional activities such as planting trees and managing the forest.

But the group has also staged «work parties» in which communities gather together to make such environmentally friendly changes as planting trees and erecting solar and wind energy installations.

Even though Finley's fight ended after battling the incurable disease that was diagnosed in December 2013, people around the world continue contributing to «Finley's Forest» and find inspiration through her to make changes to the way they use and reuse resources in their homes and offices, as well as planting trees.

The local environment At the aptly - named Outwoods Edge Primary School in Loughborough, as well as planting trees, children have had the experience of walking to their local wood.

As well as planting trees to restore damaged forests in the beautiful Gunung Leuser National Park, we work with the local people of Sumatra, empowering, educating and encouraging them to become guardians of this precious ecosystem.

Over the years he has volunteered at the Park District in other ways, too, such as planting trees in new parks, helping plan picnics and driving seniors to the nutrition site.

Nerdfighters perform acts of «awesome» together, such as planting trees or raising funds for relief and development charities.

Join the National Humane Education Society as we plant trees on the grounds of our adoption facility, The Briggs Animal Adoption Center.

There are ways to offset the problem of harmful air emissions, and one is as simple as planting a tree.

This means for each tree you pledge, as well as planting a tree, we also offset one tonne of CO

This means for each tree you pledge, as well as planting a tree, we also offset one tonne of CO2 through a VCS project, which guarantees offsetting one tCO2.

Finally, they propose activities such as planting a tree or recycling that can be implemented by everyone to address global warming.

As good as planting a tree, maybe better.

Not exact matches

In 1992, Disney planted 60,000 trees to form what is known as the Mickey Mouse Forest as part of a local reforestation project.

The Trumps and Macrons helped plant a tree on the White House grounds together before boarding Trump's Marine One helicopter for a scenic tour of monuments built in the capital city designed by French - born Pierre L'Enfant as they flew south to Mount Vernon, the first U.S. president's home along the Potomac River.

Farmers are also more likely to use cuttings from their existing trees to plant new ones, which could facilitate the spread of diseases such as swollen shoot virus.

Truffle production in Western Australia's South West is on the verge of significant growth as a number of new producers enter the market and a series of previously planted trees reach maturity.

Olnick said some local governments have been helpful in enacting or enforcing tree planting ordinances, while others oppose it and are «planting trees right back under our line as we speak,» he said.

In 2013, the city had more than 95,000 residents and is known as the «Druid City» for the large number of water oak trees plants along the downtown streets in the 19th century.

First, he would have to have existed, then be reborn as a human, then killed as a human to pay some ransom price he set on our heads for the sin of eating his fruit from the tree he happened to plant right next to the hungry humans he just made.

You say the Bible is full of fairy tales and fables, yet you believe all life forms including plants, trees, insects, birds, fish, reptiles and mammals evolved from one species into another — As if evolution isn't the biggest fairytale of them all.

Irish missionaries are spearheading a bid to plant a million trees as part of the re-greening of one... More

You say the Bible is full of fairytales and fables, yet you believe all life forms including plants, trees, insects, birds, fish, reptiles and mammals evolved from one species into another — As if evolution isn't the biggest fairytale of them all.

The only reason the last few weeks were as manageable as they were was because God had instilled in me a deep, abiding need to be a tree planted by the water, my roots spreading out into the stream that is His strength and love.

In particular, he stressed that meanings are produced not so much by simple definition as by network of contrasts (e.g., a tree is a woody plant that is not a bush or a shrub).

As cliché as it sounds, plant a treAs cliché as it sounds, plant a treas it sounds, plant a tree.

Johanan ben Zakkai, Hillel's last pupil and a contemporary of Jesus, is quoted as saying, «If you are planting a tree and you hear that Messiah has come, finish planting the tree, then go and inquire.»

So the orchard experts purposefully plant certain weeds around trees and let them grow as much as they want.

Not to mention a flood as massive as the one described in the bible would have wiped out all flora as well, did noah get all the different types of plants, trees, algea and the like on board to make sure those survived as well?

And the Lord said, «If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this sycamine tree, «Be rooted up, and be planted in the sea; and it would obey you.»»

One can imagine the quarreling over setting the quotas, what counts as earning credits (planting trees?

I also remember discovering during one Easter vigil the almost physical distress of some Eastern Rite Palestinians among us who, as refugees driven from their homeland, were affronted by our incessant imagery of the people of Israel despoiling the Egyptians, and seizing vines and trees they never planted and cisterns others had dug.

DARWIN»S TREE CHOPPED DOWN In recent years, scientists have been able to compare the genetic codes of dozens of different single - celled organisms as well as those of plants and animals.

As Bishop N.T. Wright puts it in his essay, «Jesus Is Coming — Plant a Tree,»

And I wonder if we don't get a little clue as to what that was in Jesus» strange — downright bizarre — image of a mulberry tree getting planted in the ocean.

The same way snow tracks indicated a false sense of security to my brother and I as we considered whether to maneuver our snow - skis through the trees, eventually ending in a face plant, texting and social media direct messaging indicate a false sense of security to married men and women.

If the reason for using containers is to expand the size of the garden rather than eventually to bring the plants indoors, then size and appearance is not a problem and the gardener can use fairly large containers such as plastic trash cans, wooden boxes or barrels, styrofoam picnic coolers, and the large plastic, fiber, or metal pots used by greenhouses for shrubs and trees.

We've got lots of herbs and chives and toms planted as well as onions, beans, strawberries and some fruit trees which are FINALLY looking like they'll produce something edible this year.

I made these last night as part of a going away dinner for my son who is going tree planting in Northern Ontario for 2 months.

Chocolate comes from a plant known as the cocoa tree, or Theobroma cacao.

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