Sentences with phrase «means planting trees»

This also means planting trees and gardens and replacing parking lots with parks, playgrounds, and playing fields.

It means planting trees and restoring wetlands, rather than building a costly new water treatment plant.

Not exact matches

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).

While mucus is constantly being produced and degraded in a normal gut, the change in bacteria activity under the lowest - fiber conditions meant that the pace of eating was faster than the pace of production — almost like an overzealous harvesting of trees outpacing the planting of new ones.

Mulberries are dioecious, meaning that the flowering parts are on different trees --- males and females --- and the fruits and seeds are produced on the female plants.

Well Disneynature's commitment to plant a tree for everyone who sees the motion picture between April 22 - 28 means that already 500,000 trees will be planted.

With the luxury of keeping your baby close, you will sleep peacefully knowing that babybay is built to last made from sustainably sourced beechwood, meaning that they plant a new tree for everyone that is used.

It's meant to show how quickly trees, plants and animals will have to migrate to find friendly temperatures.

ALBUQUERQUE — Because forests can lock away carbon in their woody trunks, planting vast swaths of trees on barren land could provide a means for countries to mitigate their carbon emissions.

Such stands of relatively untouched trees are meant as shelters for the rich array of plant and animal species, such as the tiger, that once spread throughout vast regions of tropical jungle.

In fact, the suggestion that planting trees means less atmospheric CO2 ignores simple logic.

This might mean you can grow a cherry tree where you couldn't before, but you and your plants can also expect a growing battery of pests that weren't there before.»

The concept of life after death is being given new meaning with an app and urn that allow you to closely monitor the growth of a tree planted in the ashes of a loved one.

Nor do they know what such changes mean for the food web; for life - cycle events like migration, breeding and nesting; for the amount of moisture that trees will suck from the soil; or for the amount of carbon dioxide stored by plants.

Early flowering plants are thought to have been woody — meaning they maintain a prominent stem above ground across years and changing weather conditions, such as a maple tree — and restricted to warm, wet, tropical environments.

The finding that they can germinate on ash plants and in forest debris means more strains of the fungus can proliferate in any one cluster of ash trees than previously thought, increasing gene flow between the strains and possibly leading to faster fungal evolution.

The movement has to be connected to variations in water pressure within the plants, and this effectively means that the tree is pumping.

In addition to poaching and cutting down trees for fuel, people are over-exploiting medicinal plants in the search for affordable means of treating the diarrhoea and other diseases that take hold as HIV weakens the immune system.

While mucus is constantly being produced and degraded in a normal gut, the change in bacteria activity under the lowest - fiber conditions meant that the pace of eating was faster than the pace of production — almost like an overzealous harvesting of trees outpacing the planting of new ones.

The day spa, situated just 30 minutes outside of Canberra, is sustainable; meaning every drop of water is recycled and directed back toward their gorgeous gardens and tree - planting program.

Due to their massive size and abundance, Pine trees are rarely cultivated, which means that Pine Pollen is almost always wild - harvested and therefore is traditionally a Shen - rich plant.

You may mean Niaouli vs. Tea Tree, which are similar in properties, but from different plant species.

Just because kids are learning about deforestation does not mean they should be out there planting trees if their efforts could be better applied addressing a more urgent concern.

Most sponsors use motivational quotes, such as this gem: «A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants trees under which he full well knows he will never sit.»

The question ties into the symbolism of what the family's (pre-existing) plum tree meant as well as what the later planted pit / sapling represents.

Sometimes this means burying the pet in the yard and planting a tree or shrub nearby.

The Coconut Coast, named for the hundreds of Coconut Palm trees planted along Kauai's east side, is home to Ke Ala Hele Makalae, when translated means «the path that goes by the coast».

The Sunshine Eaters exhibition highlights how contemporary artists and designers look to the land, plants, flowers and trees as a means to imagine and conjure hope in the face of crises.

The Sunshine Eaters is an original multi-sensory exhibition that highlights how artists and designers look to the land and its plants, flowers and trees as a means to imagine and conjure hope in the face of local and global crises.

Again, if you want to mitigate CO2 using biological means, planting long - lived trees (and then maybe burying the wood in deep lakes) is probably the only feasible mechanism.

If this means planting more trees and increasing forestation I'm all for it.

The simple act of planting a tree can mean many things to many people: It can be considered a symbol of new birth and life, a natural form of art, possibly another chore around the house, and even to some just part of another landscaping job that helps

In addition to using recycled wood, the company has also partnered with conservation nonprofit Trees for the Future, implementing a «one - for - one» tree - planting program, where every watch purchased means a tree is re-planted.

For folks who enjoyed my piece on gardens and carbon sequestration, Peter Bane offered this practical advice on enhancing carbon storage: engineer «soil climaxes», and lots of them — meaning we need to grow plants, be they cover crops, annual food crops, or perennials, trees and shrubs, and then we need to cut them back before they flower.

To honor Arbor Day, by all means organize a forest hike or go out and plant a tree (the Arbor Day Foundation offers tree planting instructions).

If so, this would mean planting 171 million hectares of land to trees.

While carbon accounting at the scale of individual households and their landholdings is unlikely in the near future, nations and regions need efficient methods to determine how much carbon is held and released within their borders - and this applies even more to the monitoring of projects to store carbon by means of tree plantings and deforestation reduction (e.g..

Her organization, the Green Belt Movement, empowers women to plant trees as a means for improving the environment throughout Kenya, where colonial and post-colonial regimes sactioned huge logging projects that all but destroyed the country's forests.

By fuel plants I mean trees for firewood.

A 2016 study from the same UW group looked at what removing trees from larger areas, like western North America or the entire Amazon rainforest, would mean for worldwide plant growth.

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.

I have recently unintentionally noticed that the UV radiation is killing the leafs of trees and plants the most exposed leaves to the sun are dying on many types of vegetation plus we have fires hazing the sky up which means more CO2 thanks to grindall61 (A YouTube channel) I hope I am spelling it correctly he goes to meetings in Southern California and records them we know that the state of California is because increasingly aggressive in reducing greenhouse gases even to the extremes of renting bikes and of course climate change is going to be used as an excuse to take away our rights don't fall for there wickedness but how can a serious state like California at least that's what I'm calling it here claim to want to fight climate change yet being ignorant on climate engineering this is a joke citizens stand up for your country.

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.

That means Hawaii would offset more carbon dioxide than it produces, through activities like planting trees, which can essentially store carbon, the greenhouse gas responsible for climate change.

Every action you can help register, will mean even more trees planted on World Environment Day in June.

Off among farmland in Mehrauli, just outside the city of Delhi proper but still within the city limits, on now - degraded land thousands of trees have been planted in an effort to reestablish forests, providing expanded wildlife habitat and ecosystem restoration — which as Indian environment minister Jairam Ramesh (above, talking with students attending the event) is keen to point out at every opportunity means improved livelihoods for people as well.

[Note that a different definition of «carbon neutral» describes carbon off - setting and means that any carbon emitted into the air is offset by tree planting or new conservation measures to lower the amount of emitted carbon dioxide.

While the tree - planting goal is obviously quite ambitious, the Distrito Federal, or Federal District, which encompasses much of Mexico City, has made a solid contribution to the goal by planting three million trees in 25 communities over 49,000 acres (20,000 hectares) in the district's rural southern zone.According to the National Forest Commission (Spanish link), as of mid August, 50 million tree seedlings had been distributed around the country, which means they may reach the goal of 250 million trees by year's end.

Stabilizing climate, for Brown, means systematically raising energy efficiency, making a massive investment in renewable energy, and planting trees to sequester carbon.