Do The Green Thing: How to repair the world (Narrated by Stephen Fry)

Posted by andyh on 20 December 2009 | View all posts | Previous | Next

The ambitious and laudable WeForest initiative from Australian entrepreneur and Xing co-founder Bill Liao aims to reforest 20 million square kilometers by 2020 creating new cloud cover to help buy time to fight climate change.

Stephen Fry lends his learned, soothing voice over to this video explaining their mission.

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In: Bill Liao, We Forest, Stephen Fry, reforestation, CO2 emissions, video

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Reforestation is perhaps the most significant way of reducing the impact of our CO2 emissions - alongside avoiding deforestation, of course. The importance of trees can be seen in the proposals by engineers here in the UK to build artificial trees to be installed as a way of absorbing carbon dioxide. There is an piece about it on the SolarUK weblog: http://solarukweblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/chicken-feed/ They do of course pose their own problems: what about the carbon emissions involved in their construction? Individual efforts to reduce fossil fuel consumption, through home insulation or a solar hot water system, are more useful in the long run than a 'mitigation measure' which only tackles the symptoms.

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