Blooming And Bold: Trees and CO2 Recapture

Blooming and Bold

Without the buzzards and bees

Where would we all bee?

In an outdoor room

Searching for shrubs and trees ...

A blog by Nicolle Kuna, author, Green Spin (or) Promoting the Green Message (2012)

A blog about sustainable landscaping and some eco-humour and eco-creativity which helps open up audience receptivity.

Inside this blog we look at everything that is encroaching in to our natural urban landscapes –outdoor rooms (errchkem), weeds, nutrients, and the way these affect our rivers, ground-water and general environment. It's easy to forget that all our eco-systems are interconnected. The first few months of the blog are reflections on the benefits of gardens vs constructed backyards (a la the outdoor room phenomenon). More nature in our midst is a blessed thing! There’s a bit of art to add extra colour and gardenesque inspiration.

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Nicolle and her fellow-workers do site visits from inner Melbourne out to northern suburbs, and can help with all the issues that crop up (pardon the err ... pun) with gardens, as with the wider landscape:

eg. plant recommendations, landscape materials to use (life cycle analysis, inputs, outputs, waste and recycling aspects), fertilisers to avoid, how everything we do affects local habitats, etcetera. Workshops can be arranged, to suit the needs of the group.

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What’s orange and black, homeless

and likes

to pounce?

A hopping mad Xmas beetle

in its new outdoor room.

Proper attribution for above garden design goes to

Andrew Jones, artist and designer.

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Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Trees and CO2 Recapture

I went on to Green fleet and this is a very helpful site. http://www.greenfleet.com.au re trees and C02 sequestration.

I entered my car use and came up with 1.84 tonnes (as compared with 4.3 tonnes for average car in Australia). To offset these emissions, Green Fleet would plant 7 native trees. So each native tree would be worth around 0.25 tonnes per year of uptake.

Note: a tree need only reach a height of 2m to be considered for carbon recapture. Never forget the savings a tree can give you if placed properly for shade.

Green Fleet say their aim is to recapture 268 tonnes of C02e per hectare with 750 to 1200 stems planted per hectare.

And I make a true declaration that I do not have a conflict of interest in writing this blog, as I am not an investor or associate of Green Fleet. Merely grateful for the information I found there.

Blooming And Bold