THE PROJECT

ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

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TREES & VEGETATION

TREES - THE ORIGINAL AIR CONDITIONERS

Cost? Zero.

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"What to do when sucker lunatics start diggin' and chewin'
They don't know that the Soul don't go for that
Potholes in my lawn

I've found that it's not wise
To leave my garden untended ....
Evil-doers who dig holes (dig holes)
Which leaves my lawn with lawn-chew
I think I'd better plant traces to give clues ....
Potholes in my lawn ~ Potholes in my lawn"

"Potholes In My Lawn" - De La Soul

"Potholes in MY Lawn" - De La Soul [Performance]

"Grazing In The Grass" - The Friends Of Distinction

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"A Hyper-Local Study of Vegetation Shows That the City's Trees and Grass Often Cancel out all the CO2 Released From Cars, Trucks, and Buses on Summer Days."

- "New York City's Greenery Absorbs a Surprising Amount of Its Carbon Emissions" - Columbia Climate School - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (2023)

What do trees and vegetation provide?

1. Trees and vegetation breathe in carbon dioxide, and breathe out, making oxygen. All moving creatures breathe in oxygen, and produce carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is the main gas that gets trapped, causing, "The Greenhouse Effect," which warms the Earth. Where there are trees and vegetation, all creatures breathe easier, because we feel reassured that this indeed is our home, our habitats.

2. Trees and vegetation create habitats for entire ecosystems. All habitats have some kind of vegetation and tree/tree-like plants. In swampy wetlands there are everglades. In deserts there are sagebrush and cacti. In colder climates there are forests. In sandy areas there are palm and date trees, eucalyptus, aloe, and fans.

3. Trees offer from shade, shelter from the hot beating sun. Not only when you are outside, but trees offer shade onto your home. It makes a tremendous difference whether you live amongst trees or not. Few trees makes what is called, Urban Heat Island. Baltimore is the ninth hottest Urban Heat Island in the United States. The sharp increase in asphalt, concrete, cement, and solar farming (placing solar panels on the ground instead on top of buildings) continues the displacement of habitat.

4. Trees clean air and offer mental health benefits. People often, "Go for a walk," and tend to want to do that in a vegetative place. While we tend to our physical health, we boost our mental health. The wind in trees act like the movement of a duster brush.

5. Vegetation and Trees filter water through their roots, making drinking supply cleaner and more reliable.

6. Trees and Vegetation roots keep soil in place. This lessens the amount of soil erosion, and nutrients leaching into waterways. The more building of roads and destruction of natural, original forests and changing water patterns forced into sewer. Changing from natural order of water to forced piping allows many places to become destitute, dry, and even turn desert sandy, killing trees and vegetation - all man (through) and woman-made.

ALLEYS TO ALLÉES

FIND: THE COMMONS

BALTIMOREAN HEALTH

NATURE RESTORATION

MARYLAND & CHESAPEAKE BAY

In the 1700's and 1800's, trees were harvested wood for homes, barns, heat, and trade, closest to where most of humanity live still today - right by waterways. 70 to 80 percent deforestation - harvest clearing meant exposed erosion. Reforestation began during the early twentieth century, but Maryland nature has not recovered due to urbanization erosion (forced drainage).
Unfortunately, though planting trees and vegetation are vital, the increase of sediment accumulation in the Chesapeake Bay is four-to-five-fold increase, in alarming speed, since the 1800's.

"6 Ways Trees Benefit All of Us" - The Nature Conservatory (2020)

"Since the seventeenth century, watershed-wide changes in land use and land cover have disrupted the natural processes of erosion:

* During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, 70 to 80 percent of the watershed’s forest cover was removed to supply people with firewood and farmland. Cleared, exposed land is prone to erosion.
* Deforestation peaked in the late nineteenth century, and while reforestation did take place during the twentieth century, increased urbanization has continued to contribute to high erosion rates.
* Studies of sediment cores in the Bay and its tributaries show a four-to-five-fold increase in sediment accumulation rates in some parts of the Bay since the 1800s."

- "Sediment Runoff: Sand, Silt, and Clay are a Natural Part of the Chesapeake Bay. But in Excess Amounts, Sediment Can Cloud the Waters of the Bay and its Tributaries, Harming Underwater Life." - Chesapeake Bay Program

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"Biden Releases $1B for Urban Trees - E&E News (2023)

Marylanders Plant Trees - Maryland Department of Natural Resources

The Maryland Ornithological Society

"ASSESSING URBAN FOREST PATCH HEALTH: A PROTOCOL"

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MARYLAND & CHESAPEAKE BAY

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"We're in the midst of three major - and interrelated - crises right now: climate change, biodiversity loss, and a rise in zoonotic diseases. And trees have the power to help solve all three. But how? WCS Wild Audio spoke with John Lotspeich, Trillion Trees Executive Director, to better understand exactly how increasing forest cover can lead to better outcomes for wildlife, and for all of us."

"How Forests Can Help Us Address Earth's Pressing Crises" - Wildlife Conservation Society WCW Wild Audio

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Baltimore Greenspace

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