Sentences with phrase «planting the tree now»

Since their inception other for - profit businesses have followed suit and created companies where by partnering with the same non-profit, they will plant trees for every purchase made — there is even a search engine that plants trees now!
Retailers who get out and start planting the tree now will appreciate the fruit it bears for years to come.
If you plant trees now, and we find out later that they were too many or in the wrong place, it is easy to chop them down.

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Celebrating Earth Day by posting this picture, using the hashtag #BetterPlanet so that @boxedwater can now plant 2 more trees in our National Forests.
Planting trees becomes a source of hope in the here and now.
She then started «growing fertilizer» by planting avocado trees that provide shade for delicate coffee bushes, organic nutrients for the soil (the fallen leaves that now carpet much of the farm), and extra income for the family when the fruits are in season.
This niche now features a variety of new plantings to provide the space with year - round sculptural interest, including three large River Birch trees in simple, modern containers, and three large Honey Locust trees throughout the seating area, which will create perfectly dappled shade for guests enjoying their afternoon tea.
but I'm still used to at least planting trees by now, if not tilling the garden and putting the brush hog on the tractor.....
Now a real celestial threat is propagating a different kind of killer plant: Woody vines known as lianas are growing so quickly in the Amazonian rain forest that they're choking trees.
While it is generally accepted that trees and plants benefit urban environments, until now researchers have had very little data to work with in order to quantify the extent that street trees regulate urban ecosystems.
That's because CO2 is added to the atmosphere not just by burning the tree but also through the process of cutting it down and transporting it to the power plant, as well as from the forest now missing a tree.
Initially around 15 tree species were planted, including fast -, medium - and slow - growing timbers, but now the area has more than 70 species of trees, says FRIM's director general Abdul Latif Mohmod.
«By minimizing the herbicide exposure to native plants we are now seeing a positive regrowth of valuable native wildflowers, trees and shrubs.»
Stone said he now wants to investigate the economics behind planting trees and reflective coatings so cash - strapped cities can see the benefits of investing in these projects.
The Spanish inventor who is working to turn deserts green by planting plastic trees has now devised a tidal power plant that he claims could revolutionise energy production.
By comparing contemporary photos with shots from a century ago, «you can literally see that trees are leafing out and the plants are flowering earlier now,» says [Richard] Primack, of Boston University.
By comparing contemporary photos with shots from a century ago, «you can literally see that trees are leafing out and the plants are flowering earlier now,» says Primack, of Boston University.
Long a symbol of life and fertility in Eastern cultures, the fig tree has now shown that its sexual prowess is tops in the plant kingdom, at least in one respect: It appears to hold the distance record for how far its pollen routinely travels to fertilize other fig trees.
The research, published yesterday in Nature Climate Change, outlines a counterintuitive side effect of climate change: As higher temperatures drive plants and trees into areas now inhospitable to them, their new distribution speeds up temperature rise via natural processes such as releases of heat - trapping water vapor into the air.
It evolved in such a way that it obtains all its water, minerals and carbohydrates from fungi — in this case, the plant's root system takes what it needs from fungi on ancient tree roots, even if the roots are all that remain in now - deforested areas.
Eight years later, it's nice to see the little acorns that we planted then now growing into oak trees.
Now, normally, if you wanted to plant a weak and sterile tree in your yard, that wouldn't bother me at all... so why do I hate the Bradford Pear so much?
«The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the second best time is now
The twinkling lights make the center a real hot spot after it gets dark (which thanks to winter is super early now) + it has a living plant wall inside accompanied by a gigantic Christmas tree and plenty of festive holiday décor.
Now, other classes are replanting the edge of the school playground with native trees and other plants.
Principals in many schools, McCarty said, «would be wishing for things like file cabinets that aren't locked shut without keys or that the cracked old empty pool — now a safety hazard and a stark reminder of what the children do not have rather than an asset to the physical plant — would be magically filled in and planted with a tree; and that the air and heat worked.»
Missouri From the Superintendent of Public Schools, in his annual report: «Let this love for planting trees, shrubs, vines, and flowers be encouraged and stimulated in the school - room and not only will the school - yards profit thereby, but the now barren farm - yards and pastures will remain the recipients of your instruction.»
Now, for just $ 10 (U.S.), you can give the gift of planting a tree in Kenya to a friend or loved one.
The students split their donations between the Green Belt Movement and the Wildlife Conservation Society and now see that the benefits of planting trees not only positively effect humans, but also help protect animals and the environment in which we all live.
The work of the Green Belt Movement stands as a testament to the power of grassroots organizing, proof that one person's simple idea — that a community should come together to plant trees — can make a difference, first in one village, then in one nation, and now across Africa.
If you plant a $ 10,000 Coca - Cola tree here, a $ 10,000 Procter & Gamble tree there, you are making the kind of decisions today in the here and now that will allow you to receive constant benefits every three months for the rest of your life as long as the underlying business remains healthy.
You'll never be relaxing under the shade of a giant tree 20 years from now if you don't plant the seeds today.
For example, the previous homeowner may have planted a tree that looks great now, but in 10 years will pose a problem to your home's foundation.
The second best time to plant a tree is now.
Here on a small stretch of protected land, the former owners of a nearby mansion had planted a grove of eucalyptus trees, which is now the Heron and Cormorant Rookery, a nesting ground for hundreds of great blue herons and great and snowy egrets.
We hold the hope that 10 years from now, when trees planted today tower 50 feet above the earth, Simon and Samuel will be where they dream to be.
Newly purchased palm trees and other tropical specimen plants, are now planted around the pool and other areas replacing many of the palms destroyed by the storm.
The residents of Lomaland also transformed their Point Loma neighborhood by planting so many trees, orchards and shrubs that the formerly barren neighborhood is now known as the «Wooded Area».
Founded in 1863 with the planting of an English Oak tree, the Gardens now feature one of the finest collections of exotic and native plants found in New Zealand.
Your pass now includes sea kayaking, an outback cattle station stop, scooter - roo (guided 50cc moped ride to see kangaroos), didgeridoo experience, eco-guided treks, barefoot bowling, tree planting and learn to surf lessons.
Our group has done tree planting activities in various communities in our town for a month now.
Now you can tap trees for resin or maple syrup, and plant fruit trees that can have their produce gathered and turned into lovely jam!
Some environments feature small «organic» areas with grass, trees and assorted floras; the combination of real - world lighting and weather effects, the robotic landscape and clashing planted areas emphasize the «once beautiful, now desolate» setting of Cloudbuilt.
In addition to all the strange plants, you now can grow trees to bring kittens and other cute critters into the world
With each exhibition the artist has expanded the botanical content from single trees, bushes and weeds to now entire gardens — teeming with growth and rich with animal and plant life.
Someone recently told me that the hundreds of towering Washingtonia palm trees that were planted to prettify the city for the 1932 Olympics are now at the end of their natural lifespans, and will start keeling over any minute.
On the way to his studio, Stephan alerted me to the now - huge trees that they had planted when they first moved in, an ever - expanding stand of bamboo, and a flock of unidentified birds that seem to have taken up residence in a hollow tree next to the pond.
At Carroll / Fletcher, clear plastic bags display titbits claimed from the sites (bottle caps, twine, sweet wrappers), dried samples of plants protrude from bricks, and a video shows the pair wandering through trees, their faces concealed behind 3D - prints of Neolithic masks that were looted from the West Bank and now sit in Israeli museums.
Perhaps it helped that Robert Moses once tried to improve the park on the cheap by planting plane trees, an invasive species that now dares sheet metal to look half as uniform.
This living, site - specific installation resulted in an oasis of fruit trees and flowering plants, which is now home to eight functioning beehives.
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