Dear Future Generations - Stand for Trees

Dear Future Generations,
Sorry...

This is a well thought out, heart felt, amazing watch.

http://www.standfortrees.org

http://www.princeea.com/

Help Plant A Million Trees in NYC

I have been seeing the Million Trees NYC efforts all around my neighborhood for a while now. It started with TD Bank putting advertisements up on their windows, and participating in events around New York City. I spotted TD Bank at The Worlds Fair Anniversary in Flushing Meadow Park in Queens with this awesome nature habitat inside of a truck. If you took a tour of the truck, you would get a cool, million trees reusable shopping bag. The line was ginormous, so I sadly did not get to see the truck, or get the nifty bag. Reusable shopping bags are my jam.

TD Bank Tree Trailer - Worlds Fair Anniversary, Queens NY
The Green Monger

 Then I started seeing trees actually being planted around the neighborhood, and spots drawn on the sidewalk to mark out where future trees were going to be planted.

Solar Power Breakthrough Using The Intelligence of Nature - Biomimicry

Nature has its own system and design that enables it to function efficiently. After thousands of years of trial and error followed by evolution, nature knows what it's doing. This makes it come as no surprise that humans use inspiration from nature to solve human problems and create more productive and efficient products through biological engineering.

This practice is known as biomimicry, and while the term first appeared in the early 80's, it was made popular by scientist and author Janine Benyus in her book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature in 1997. Benyus suggests looking to Nature as a "Model, Measure, and Mentor" and puts heavy emphasis on sustainability as biomimicry focus.

Being that I'm a big solar panel supporter, I was happy to see that there has been a nice little advancement made in the field, and by a 13 year old no less. Taking inspiration from the unique ways that trees branch off to absorb the most sunlight and nourish itself, Aidan Dwyer created a solar cell tree that produces 20-50% more power than a uniform array of photovoltaic panels.

Read more: 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

When I see intelligent 13 year old children making advancements in science, it shows me just how little scientists and head honchos in charge of improving our efficiency are doing to make us a more sustainable machine.