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Pet dogs have ‘extensive and multifarious’ impact on environment, new research finds
Fresh details emerge on Australia’s new climate migration visa for Tuvalu residents. An expert explains
Fresh details emerge on Australia’s new climate migration visa for Tuvalu residents. An expert explains
"I don’t want to die with a freezer full of seeds." It’s time to rethink biodiversity and preservation | Chris Smith
"I don’t want to die with a freezer full of seeds." It’s time to rethink biodiversity and preservation | Chris Smith
"I don’t want to die with a freezer full of seeds." It’s time to rethink biodiversity and preservation | Chris Smith
Kelp forest project in West Sussex having 'remarkable results'
The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back.
Doesn't need to be a desert. Anywhere that has a dry season with lower humidity should work regardless of total annual precipitation.
And borax, to keep the termites from eating it.
Killing other beings, destroying their habitat, and polluting their water supply for no appreciable benefit... Even harming one's own kin in the process... This is not advisable. If it's unethical for foreigners to do it, then it's unethical for the local people to do it. The animals who depend on the rainforest do not care who is killing them; they just want to live.
"The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion." – Saul Alinsky
One more reason to move to the jungle.
Just be to sure to check for rotten spots in an old wooden barrel before setting it up! Old wood + constant moisture = fungal rot.
From what I understand, the people doing the thing fund it themselves. It seems like each parcel of land is managed independently, but I don't know to what degree they coordinate between the different lands. They have an email address on the Contact page, so you can ask whatever you want to know.
We need more people starting or joining projects like this! Having no corporate sponsors and no government funding are especially important with all of the corruption involved in "carbon credit" projects and government funding being cut off or contingent on a bunch of bureaucracy. Independent restoration efforts controlled by the people living in the area just make more sense. Less conflicts of interest. If even a small percentage of the population did this, it could make a huge difference.
Hello and thank you for your thoughtful comment. In general, I agree. I was not insinuating that Dipteryx oleifera trees (or plants in general) are only valuable as a source of food. They provide a myriad of ecosystem services, and all life in the forest is connected and interdependent. I simply meant that while some fruit-bearing plants are widely planted outside of their native range for food (durians, mangos, peaches, and probably most things that we both eat), this particular tree is probably not worth planting for its fruit alone (especially considering its size), and therefore it doesn't make sense to grow it outside of its native range as one might do with some other fruit trees. Within its native range, it could be worth planting for the sake of restoring the forest, in which case eating the fruit would be a bonus.
Of course, no animal is food.
It's more beautiful than delicious, honestly. The fruit doesn't have a very strong flavour, and the spines and seeds make it difficult to eat many of them out of hand, BUT blended with other things, it can be quite nice.
Is "spikes" a euphemism for durian?
Do you have plum blight in your area? Something to be aware of if planting native Prunus species. If you don't have problems with fungus there, then I definitely recommend Prunus americana.
I also second the suggestion of Diospyros virginiana. I've heard praise of the 'Meader' cultivar in particular.
Are you familiar with Amelanchier laevis? It should be native to Ohio.
For those finding this post for the first time, OP is now an admin of https://lemmy.vg/ which is a Lemmy instance run by vegans for vegans.
There are people trying to reforest the Amazon pasture lands with food forests which should reduce the incidence of fires as well as providing many other benefits.
The Dunstan chestnut is a traditional hybrid developed decades ago. It wasn't exactly the same as the original American chestnut (Castanea dentata), but was that really such a problem?
"You could take the first step by walking and cycling instead of driving a car going vegan."
Fixed it.
Did you see this farther down on the same page?
The 1000 Liters of water in the Bathtub corresponds to the 1000 Gigatons of CO2 we have added to the atmosphere since 1750. The inflow of 50 L/m into the bathtub corresponds to the 51 Gigatons of greenhouse gases we are emitting each year. When the Killing machine faucet is shut off, it reduces the net inflow into the bathtub to 5 L/m, a 90% reduction in the inflow, which corresponds to the 87% reduction we expect in real life. The 2000 Liters of Vegan Reforestation potential corresponds to the 2000 Gigatons of CO2 that can be stored through rewilding grazing lands. The 350 Liters in the Aerosols cistern corresponds to the one-third increase in radiative forcing that will occur when aerosols disappear as well as the outgassing of CO2 that will occur from the ocean/land as we reduce CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
To put it another way:
The bathtub basically represents the world climate system. The water in the bathtub represents the greenhouse gases (mainly carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) that humans have put into the atmosphere, responsible for the warming of the planet.
The baby represents life on Earth, the majority of which will be killed in a mass extinction if climate change continues too far. This is represented by the baby drowning in the bathtub full of water.
The burning machine represents the burning of fossil fuels (petroleum, coal, natural gas, and all of the related substances like tar sands and oil shale). The faucet on the left side represents the greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, contributing to climate change.
The "Aerosols" cistern represents the amount of warming that has not occurred due to the cooling effect of air pollution reflecting sunlight back into space. If the air pollution (largely caused by burning fossil fuels) were to dissipate, such as by shifting to cleaner-burning fuels (low-sulphur diesel fuel, for example) or by no longer burning fuel for energy at all (shutting down the "burning machine" in this analogy), then all of the warming cancelled out by the pollution will occur. This is represented by the water in the cistern flowing out into the bathtub; removing the aerosol pollution has the same effect as adding more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
The killing machine represents the animal exploitation industries, including but not limited to animal agriculture. The smaller faucet on the right side represents the greenhouse gas emissions of these industries due to deforestation, animal respiration and flatulence, fermentation of waste, and so on.
The drain of the bathtub represents the rate at which forests and other natural vegetation could capture greenhouse gases (mainly carbon dioxide), removing them from the atmosphere and removing their effect on the climate. This only applies if the forests are allowed to grow back, which is currently not the case due to the huge amount of land used by animal agriculture for grazing and the production of feed crops (maize, soya, palm oil, and so on). This is representing by the animal parts and secretions blocking the drain.
The 2000L Vegan Reforestation Potential tank represents the total amount of carbon dioxide that could be captured and removed from the atmosphere, negating its effect on the climate, if the land currently used for grazing cows/goats/sheep/others were allowed to regrow into forest. It is called the "vegan" reforestation potential because in order for that land to be freed from grazing so that the forests to grow back, people need to live vegan.
The climate bathtub model is meant to illustrate that ending the use of fossil fuels without ending animal exploitation would not only not solve the climate crisis, it would immediately make the problem worse due to the reduction in aerosol pollution. It is crucial to first "unblock the drain" by putting an end to the industrial-scale killing of other animals in order to stop the climate bathtub from overflowing and drowning the baby (killing most life on Earth). The order of operations matters. Like algebra class.
Does that help?
That was fast! The leaves are slightly different than the photo there on Wikipedia, but perhaps Palicourea elata? The genus seems right. Thanks!
It most certainly is NOT Chrysophyllum cainito, but thanks for trying. Those are some beautiful photos.
“Let’s not do the old plant-and-pray” method, said Hurteau. “Let’s plant where we know that their chance of survival is quite high.”
Forest Service rules generally require planting the same species at the same elevations as before a fire, but the agency will “need to be flexible moving forward,” said Jason Sieg, acting supervisor of the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests & Pawnee National Grassland.
This is important. Finding suitable places to plant the trees can make a big difference in the survival rate. Trying to force plants to grow in a pre-determined location, regardless of current environmental conditions, is basically what industrial agriculture is doing (and using huge quantities of water and fertiliser in order to sustain).
For now, that might mean replanting at different elevations or collecting seeds from another location. Eventually, researchers say it could require planting species not found in an area originally — an option many have resisted.
“I’ve seen people go from saying, ‘Absolutely, we cannot move trees around’ to, ‘Well, maybe let’s try it at least, and do a few experiments to see if this will work,’” said Camille Stevens-Rumann, interim director at the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute.
“We need to start being creative if we want trees on our landscapes,” she said. “We’re in a place of such drastic climate change that we are not talking about whether or not some of these places will be a different kind of forest, but whether or not they will be forests at all.”
In desperate situations, when the goal is simply to get some type of forest growing back in a particular location, then it's important to choose "the best trees for the job" regardless of where they come from. Usually those will be native species, but not necessarily, especially in very disturbed ecosystems and those severely affected by climate change. If foreign trees aren't likely to pose a threat, then we mustn't discriminate against them; that would be the plant equivalent of speciesism and xenophobia. (If farmers discriminated in such a way, then there would be no peaches in North America, no tomatoes in Europe, no watermelons in Asia, and so on.)