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Healthy Trees and Landscapes Help Save Energy. When trees are planted in the right location and receive periodic maintenance, they provide the greatest energy saving benefits. Gretchen Pettis discusses how selecting a site containing healthy soil, sufficient …
Site Assessment Prior to Planting in the Urban Environment
There are several considerations to be made when establishing a long-lived, healthy tree. In this video, Liza Holmes explains important site assessment and preparation considerations, including planning for proper tree spacing …
Join other Cooperative Extension personnel, educators and our expert speakers for an exciting and knowledge-filled urban and community forestry 2018 webinar series. Covering topics such as the effects of urban forests on our health, creating storm-resilient forests, and more, the …
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Selecting Diverse Trees for Sustainability of the Urban Environment
Maximize your heating and cooling energy savings with careful tree selection. In this video, Robert Polomski, recommends that deciding what tree to plant is often the most important …
Each yard is unique in its orientation to the summer sun, winter winds and spaces available for planting trees. In some situations, your neighbor’s trees may be providing your property with shade, cooling effects or blocking cold winds. In this …
Energy conservation is or should be a concern for everyone, for a multitude of reasons. We spend a lot of money on energy, whether it’s gasoline, electricity, natural gas, batteries, firewood, etc. All of these forms of energy cost money. …
Carbon dioxide (CO2) can be poisonous at very high concentrations.
If you’ve seen the movie Apollo 13, you know that one of the crises the NASA engineers had to overcome was devising a carbon dioxide filter to keep the …
Homes and businesses lose heat through air infiltration, heat conduction and radiation transmission.
To reduce air infiltration, properly positioning vegetation around homes and businesses can help slow wind velocities.
To reduce heat conduction, layer the vegetation …
Unless you have a very large yard, measured in acres of land, it is unlikely that you could offset your carbon footprint by planting trees. However, trees do absorb CO2, so planting trees in any size yard can help offset …
Trees should never be “topped.” Removing the uppermost stem and branches of the tree will disfigure the tree, distort its growth and shape, pose a greater risk of sunscald to the inner portions of the tree and open a large …
