permaculture

[Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>]

Educate your government, it can help. At the very least, they can plant 
nitrogen fixers and other useful trees. Many trees have edible leaves even if 
no fruit - get them to plant those!  So many governments don't plant fruit 
because when it falls, it becomes a "nuisance."  Help them solve that by 
hooking up homeless or low income programs with picking fruit from city trees 
and selling it. Win-win! Many potential solutions but it all revolves around 
enough communication with government employees to educate them. Many will be 
responsive, especially on local levels. Many of them love their city and want 
it to do well, and can be gotten to see the importance of local food supply 
and water conservation. 

Cory

--- On Thu, 12/2/10, Killian O'Brien <admin@pri-de.org> wrote:

> From: Killian O'Brien <admin@pri-de.org>
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] BBC News - Government launches £4.2m urban 
> tree-planting plan
> To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Thursday, December 2, 2010, 10:01 AM
> I wish we were having more success in
> getting food forests and/or guilded plantings done.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Killian O'Brien
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> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Lawrence F. London, Jr.
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 11:12 AM
> To: permaculture
> Subject: [permaculture] BBC News - Government launches
> £4.2m urban tree-planting plan
> 
> 
> BBC News - Government launches £4.2m urban tree-planting
> plan
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11894742
> 
> It will see trees planted in urban areas of England that
> need them most, 
> in the first government tree-planting campaign since the
> 1970s.
> 
> It aims to reverse declines in the rates in the number of
> trees being 
> planted in towns and cities.
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