BOOK

Treekeepers : race for a forested future

Oakes, Lauren, author

2024

Overview

\"In recent years, planting a tree has become a catchall to represent \"doing something good for the planet.\" Many companies commit to planting a tree with every purchase. But who plants those trees and where? Will they flourish and offer the benefits that people expect? Can all the individual efforts around the world help remedy the ever-looming climate crisis? In Treekeepers, Lauren E. Oakes takes us on a poetic and practical journey from the Scottish Highlands to the Panamanian jungle to meet the scientists, innovators, and local citizens who each offer part of the answer. Their work isn't just about planting lots of trees, but also about understanding what it takes to grow or regrow a forest and to protect what remains. Throughout, Oakes shows the complex roles of forests in the fight against climate change, and of the people who are giving trees a chance with hope for our mutual survival. Timely, meticulously reported, and ultimately optimistic, Treekeepers teaches us how to live with a sense of urgency in our warming world, to find beauty in the present for ourselves and our children, and to take action big or small\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Subject: Forest restoration. / Reforestation. / Forest ecology. / Forests and forestry Climatic factors. / Climate change mitigation.
• ISBN: 9781541603349

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
SD409 .O225 2024	1	BOOK	WAITINSERT