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Queen Elizabeth's Funeral When I think about the vast amount of  tax payers’  money  spent , as well as , the exorbitant amount of money spent for countless flowers etc. and the degradation to the quality of our air with  travellers coming from all over the world to the Queen funeral, I  wish  the Queen had left strict instructions for her last wishes. Imagine what an everlasting impact and legacy if she could have had, if she had declared that instead of a nine day funeral procession ,  she would like to use 50 % of her estate  and donations from her loyal subjects to create GHG - reducing- and - carbon sink  parks and woodlands  in all the Commonwealth countries in her name. Then she would have create a peaceful solace where people could hike, explore, mediate, and think about her legacy. Hopefully, King Charles the 3 rd , who apparently is profoundly concerned about global overheating and climate chaos, will seriously think about an everlasting legacy that dovetails his passion

  What do you think? Can birds help combat the catastrophic impacts of  climate chaos ? YES! YES! A THOUSAND TIMES YES! Birds do an incredible job of  helping to create new forests by eating tons of tree seeds.  As they fly all over the forests the tree seeds in their poop is dropped on the forest  floor.  And, the poop helps to fertilize the tree seeds as they sprout into saplings. 92% of woody plants are grown from the seeds dropped by birds in their poop !  182 species are edible. 85 species are used for timber.  153 species are medicinal  plants. 156 species are ornamental.  A new study   published  in Forest Ecosystems   (20220 concluded large fruit-eating animals, including birds like toucans significantly help regenerate forests which are  giant traps for carbon, collectively, absorbing  as much as 30 percent of the world’s CO2 emissions , and store more than 1,600 gigatonnes of carbon in their soil.  In the tropics, tall, hardwood species with dense,

  A TREE PLAN FOR ALL CITIES Gil Penalosa is founder of 8 80 Cities Initiatives that advocates for public places to be more accessible. He is pitching what he calls the 3-30-300 plan. Based on reearch done by Cecil Konijinendijk, a professor of Urban Forestry at UBC This plan ensures every resident has three things that can offer  significant health and environmental benefits. What the 3-30 -300 trees plan entail are - at least 3 trees shoild be visible from your home the tree canopy in every single neighbourhood in the City  should cover 30 % of the land a person should never be more than 300 nearest from the  nearest public park or green space This plan truly recognizes hoe vitally important trees are for the City. In Toronto alone its 11.5 million trees - store 1.1 million tonnes of carbon soak up more than 330, 000 cubic metres of stormwater runoff removes 972 tonnes of air pollution o ak, hickory and birch are great trees fo