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[permaculture] Trees & Co2

From: William Genest <genest@pivot.net>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [permaculture] Trees & Co2
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:42:00 -0400

Just attended a lecture on Global warming and heard some dismaying figures about trees' ability to sequester carbon. Apparently a hectare of trees only sequesters about 3 tons of carbon per year ?!?! Is that true ? Anyone have any other info on this ?

William

[permaculture] Fw: The Wood Stove Replacement Act of 2005, David Kahn, 10/17/2005
- [permaculture] Trees & Co2, William Genest, 10/19/2005
  - Re: [permaculture] Trees & Co2, Martin Naylor, 10/19/2005
    - Re: [permaculture] Trees & Co2, Earth Passengers, 10/20/2005
  - Re: [permaculture] Trees & Co2, Toby Hemenway, 10/20/2005