Sentences with phrase «thought planting trees»

«We thought planting trees across the northern hemisphere would help curb global warming by the CO ² absorption but what we found was a different story.»

I think planting trees is a good thing if done with care and thought of the locale and what might be expected to come.

Not exact matches

With the birth of my first child recently I began thinking about planting a dividend tree for him at birth so that he may sit in its shade in a couple decades.

Think about it: God used dead dust to form Adam and planted the tree of life to keep him alive.....

Atheism, Thought - filled «Laughing», is likened to a tree that was planted when but a sapling.

The family in the book plants trees and picks up their campsite, because caring for the earth is part of Judaism, I think.

Just think about it: a tree or plant puts all of its genetic punch into the seed, hoping that the seeds will sprout to create a new plant.

«When you are thinking about these plant - based protein products, what the occasion is, what the brand is, if it's organic, are all going to be part of the decision tree,» said Kara Nielsen, U.S. sales and engagement manager for Innova Market Insights.

While many plants have male and female sex organs, palm trees were thought to be either male or female, or «dioecious».

Trees and other plants suck up carbon dioxide, so we might think planting forests will halt global warming.

Michael Donoghue and Erika Edwards, plant evolution researchers at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, analyzed water conservation mechanisms in the cactus genus Pereskia, an assortment of leafy shrubs and trees that are thought to represent the ancestral state of living cacti.

Two seed pods from a desert tree are the star witnesses in a murder trial in Arizona, in what is thought to be the first case in which the genetic fingerprint of a plant has been used as evidence.

Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human - induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture.

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.

But contrary to current thinking, the new tree suggests that these early dinosaurs had grasping hands and were omnivores, snapping up meat and plant matter alike.

While stored starch and soluble sugar in plant tissues were thought to influence the resistance and resilience of trees positively during periods of drought, this supposition had not been proven.

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.

While many of us think of planting flowers for bees, what many people don't realize is that in most areas the honey bee's primary source of nectar is from flowering trees.

I thought about planting coffee under the coconut trees and start an herbal medicine garden.

I think if I had to pick a favorite, it would be that galvanized looking oversized crown that you have hanging from the tree with plants.

The ones who thought — erroneously — that pumping out volumes of dreck would be like planting their own, personal money tree will eventually fade away.

She thought it was too late, for her, to plant a tree.

Months ahead in our content production schedule, we think about what would be relevant during June, July, August... Maybe it's time to plant trees; we research that.

Most people automatically think of the Christmas tree when they think of plants, but others are commonly used to make the home more festive.

From planting trees in Texas, to using only wind - powered energy to make our foods, we like to think that every day is Earth Day at Freshpet.

From planting trees in Texas, to using only wind - powered energy to make our foods, we like to think that every day is Earth Day at Freshpet Read More»

«By planting trees, people are taking ownership of the oxygen that they use and will think about the carbon that they produce,» noted Gallo.

I thought maybe Steam forgot to make a «Leave Early Access» button for survival game developers to click on, or maybe that they had to cut down a real tree using an axe made from a stick, a stone, and «plant fiber» before they were allowed to leave Early Access and no one could actually do it.

Of course, after planting the tree, I did just what any quality mayor would do: Survey the residents to fish for compliments see what they think of their new mayor!

The ceremonial tree planting instead made me think of Earth Day, whereas his environmental ideal and environmental art had more to do with salt, rock, the human imprint, and decay than with an ecosystem's organic growth and sense of repose.

A tree trunk of marble, of calcium, encloses, in our thought, the carbon, the plant, and the plant the mimicry of the color of the bronze and the color of the bronze, the green of the foliage and the trees, the flow of matter, of water, of rivers where there courses the subterranean life of the world, of veins whose flow is enclosed in our body, as in the mountain's cavity of marble.»

I think everyone should visit / / www.treehoo.com the web that plants trees for most of its profit to help the environment and save the planet.

If you are doing any summer gardening, think about planting some shade trees around your home.

Several things probably come to mind when you think about plants: green, life, oxygen, photosynthesis, trees - intelligence, more likely than not, is not one of them.

But I disagree: One should never think in terms if planting trees, but in terms of designing ecosystems.

Benson's tree planting and reclaiming deserts, but once again the best efforts are labor intensive (this Jordanian experiment shows how, though it was trashed by a polity addicted to industrial - scale thinking if I remember correctly): http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006617.html

Least they think the «deniers» planted trees under the ice that clearly show past eras of warming that their chart manipulations have successfully erased from their data lines.

Tree planting projects helped change our thinking about how we can protect our environment through business and industry, and these programs are still very effective in developing countries like Ghana.

«In 1977, when we planted seven trees, many people thought that we were just joking because we were just a bunch of women.

Having been raised in a family which once owned America's largest independent dairy, I'd like to think I know something about plants and trees, so I am always puzzled when someone says temperature exerts the primary control, because different factors are all major contributors to plant / tree growth, water availability arguably being the most important factor facilitating nutrient uptake for a given non-extreme area.

As a result, he says that cutting down trees could worsen climate change to a larger degree than was previously thought, and that protecting them, and planting new ones, should be one of our primary climate mitigation measures.

I think it's notable that the phenomenon that Grist is lampooning here — people defending their otherwise consumptive lifestyles by pointing to the green things that they do (and perhaps winkingly at the kind of folks who show up in support of Earth Day, plant a tree, and drive home and leave it at that)-- is a relatively new phenomenon.

Think of it this way: If that mass tree planting referred to above would have happened whether or not you bought your greenhouse gas (GHG) offset — or whether an offset market even existed — then what's been accomplished?

In fact, some types of trees actively consume certain types of air pollution.Looking at oxygenated volatile organic compounds (oVOCs)-- which are emitted from both manmade and non-manmade sources and can have serious effects on the health of the environment and humans — the team found that deciduous plants take up oVOCs as much as four times more rapidly than previously thought.

TH: When you say «offsets», many people still think about tree planting, yet Terrapass does not invest in tree planting schemes.

«He scoffs at an article claiming that Apple contributed to a tree shortage in the Bay Area by buying up so many plants for the campus, «as if we'd got to the end of our project and we thought, Oh, we'd better plant some trees,»» it reads.

Artists who love the creation of unique thoughts and words as much as they love to see a seed sprout and grow into a flower, tree, or any other plant.

I came to this realization six months into therapy when Judy offhandedly said, «I'm thinking about planting a tree to honor my family.»

Landscape to Lower Energy Think of landscaping as your exterior blinds, and plant a few trees along the south side of your home to help block direct sunlight from ever making it to your windows.

I think my job experience in France would have gone better if I had spent those weekends and evenings studying French instead of planting trees and shrubs.