Students Plant Trees To Offset Emissions From School Bus
by Andrew Posner, Providence, Rhode Island on 05.18.08
We've seen great examples of high school students taking the green bull by the horn recently, perhaps most notably the young environmentalists that protested the anti-bicycle policy at their school in New Jersey. Now, a group of high schoolers in an environmentally-themed program in Ontario, Canada, have begun planting trees in order to offset the emissions from their school buses. The students attend two green education programs known as the Community Environment Leadership Program and the Headwaters Program, both of which encourage students to take a hands-on approach to solving environmental problems.
The offsetting program does just that, enabling students to learn about carbon emissions and offsets while getting outdoors and planting some trees. 1,100 trees were donated from a local nursery, and they will be planted on a site that had been wooded but was accidentally burnt last year.
Via: ::GuelphMercury.com
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this is really the right thing to do. This students are the future and what they're doing is planting for the future. No use of knowing about the global warming and do nothing about it. tree planting is one of the solution and the easiest one that we can do. if all the schools across the planet would do something like this there is a big chance for the global warming to be reversed. Thanks for posting.
I'm glad to know some of our youth are taking responsibility and awareness of the pollution they create and helping offset it.
If these trees were donated from a nursery, how large were they before the students planted them? Is that how tree planting usually works? Doesn't starting from partially-grown trees reduce the carbon-sequestering potential? I really don't know much about how tree-planting schemes are normally carried out.
Great group of students, green thuumb up!