How many plants you have planted so far? how many you have cut?

Good on you for taking an interest in this important issue & doing something practical about it. I have also planted in pot plants outside my bedroom window. I hope more people grow plants of every kind, at least to beautify our surroundings & try to clean the air. There is much more we can do though. If we shut down all the big polluting industries & left every vehicle parked where it is & planted trees, it will make almost zero difference to global warming. Why? The lifespan of carbon dioxides, etc in our atmosphere is over fifty years - takes this long to get rid of it. The main cause of global warming, which is happening much sooner than expected is, as reported by the United Nations FAO, the ICCP, NASA scientists & a large number of climate scientists worldwide... is animal agriculture. Methane, of which this industry emits far more than any other on earth, traps heat 72 times more effectively than carbon dioxide. Furthermore, this gas has a very short life in our atmosphere - only about ten years. Other gases produced far more from this same industry than any other include nitrous oxides, which traps heat about 300 times more effectively than CO2 & then there's ammonia which is ultimately responsible for forming acid rain. Therefore the most effective, cheap & efficient means any individual can make with the maximum impact on global warming is to adopt a plant-based diet, boycotting all animal products. If you are still worried about deforestation, it has been the livestock industry in the last 30 years at least, that is the driving force behind clearing forests to grow food for the animals & space to breed them. http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/01/27/weekinreview/20080127_BITTMAN1_GRAPHIC.html http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/01/27/weekinreview/20080127_BITTMAN2_GRAPHIC.html A better calculation of the energy cost of meat production has been done by Cornell University’s Dr. David Pimentel, an agricultural scientist, who isn't involved with the vegetarian movement at all, but has been tracking the energy cost of ‘growing’ meat for decades and written 560 scientific papers and 23 books on the subject. Dr. Pimentel has also held numerous governmental posts overseeing the meat industry and repeatedly tells his fellow meat scientists, “I’m not making any moral judgments. I’m just giving you data.” In his 2004 paper “Livestock Production and Energy Use,” Pimentel estimated that in the US the amount of gasoline required to sustain the average meat-based diet is an astonishing 401 gallons per year, versus 219 gallons for a vegetarian diet. These numbers increase dramatically the more meat one eats. Pimentel also calculated that if the entire world ate the way people in the US do, the Earth’s petroleum reserves would be exhausted in just 13 years. Most remarkable is the following observation: Even driving many gas-guzzling luxury cars can conserve energy over walking; that is, when the calories you burn walking come from the standard American diet! This is because the energy needed to produce the food you would burn in walking a given distance is greater than the energy needed to fuel your car to travel the same distance, assuming that the car gets 24 miles per gallon or better. In addition, a similar calculation on bicycle riding from the website http://www.bicycleuniverse.info/ reveals that cycling on a meat diet requires as much fossil-fuel consumption as driving a car! Another way to look at it is: who contributes more emissions? A vegan driving a fuel guzzling SUV to work every day or a meat eater who travels the same distance by bicycle each day? You know the answer. Change your diet & your life & the planet today!

There is no such thing as global warming. In fact we are in a period of global cooling. That is why there are so many tornadoes farther north then usual in the United States. And also with the ethanol being produced using corn that is supposed to be a food grain, and thus the prices of oil and gas going up because Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency making sure that there are so much regulations that it is impossible to drill in America, the cost of getting food from far would be prohibative. However you need time to plant these vegetables, and fruit. and places to plant them. I haf a bad knee, have a couple of pins in them and so because I had to rent a walker, that meant I could not put in the large box where I could put some salad veggies, and I do not want to dig up the lawn. That would mean getting one of those machines and getting someone to do it for me. It would be the same as someone who has an apartment. They would have to take time to go to a community garden plot or to get some containers and grow a few vegetables. I have a herb garden at the side of my house and trying to grow a tomato and pepper plant, but will have to wait untl next year to get a large box so I can grow a few more vegetables. Just forget the global warming thing or saving the environment. Plant some vegetables and lettuce so that you can have healthier things to eat. God is in charge of the world, and we are stewards. We are not slaves of the world and the environmentalists. Besides if you are careful and a saver, you would have done that without having the enviromentalists scaring you with save the earth.

I had big space in front of our old home, but when it was demolished and new home was constructed, all the trees except 2 were cut for the new construction Well you ask how many i have planted, during my service of 45 years in colleges and universities, on the college foundation day, each staff, teacher/non teacher had to plant one tree in the campus garden.. Thank you so much for sharing Enjoy life to fullest. Professor ‘*^Bhuwan^*’. .

We are going to celebrate Environment Day on 23th June, Lets see how many plants We can plant. They are also distributing Saplings, so people can plant at their own places.. LEt's hope it works

I have also realized that we should take care our environment especially our natural resources.Taking care of it would really be a big help to lessen the effects of this current problem globally which is the global warming.As far as I can remember I had already plant different trees around more than 20 different tress when I was still young.I was helping my parents to plant coconut,banana,mango trees in our farm.It was very fulfilling when you see them bear it's fruits and more importantly I at least I contribute to the environment.

There is a need to take care o the environment as there is a great effect of pollution on it. Till date i have ever removed or cut down a plant except weeds and bronchitis which cause diseases. I do not remember the number but i almost planted 15 plants and a coconut tree 2 months back. This is growing well and i am looking forward to go with an event of planting 1500 plants with the help of other engineering students in college.

I have plant a lot of flowers,in the garden.But i have not cut them down i just trim the edges. we have a lot of fruit trees in our back yard, most of the day we don't have to use fan because we get a lot of breeze from the tree. sound good place a tree every month, i will see if i can keep up.But i love to plant a lot of flowers for my garden so i will keep planting,its a good idea.

For me I don't cut even one and I don't plant a tree even one in my life now.

I love plants but I don't know how to plant i but our house is surrounded with plants. I think we have more than a hundred of pots around.

I have not planted any so far because I do not own a ground where I can plant. Same reason I have not cut any plant because I do not have authority to touch or redress any plants. Of course I have seen streets in Chennai full of trees becoming void of trees because they felled down recklessly for expansion of roads. cannot help it. However it is nice that whenever opportunity is there we should plant trees so that we can help environment largely. have a good day.