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President Trump's State of the Union address

"To protect the environment, days ago, I announced that the United States will join the One Trillion Trees Initiative, an ambitious effort to bring together Government and the private sector to plant new trees in America and around the world." The President's words last night recall that back in 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the  National Tree Trust Act . 

Trump Announces U.S. Will Join ‘One Trillion Trees’ Initiative

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Breitbart, January 22 .

Axios: "What’s in Republicans’ new climate-change push"

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From Axios '  Amy Harder :  But the plan will likely include other kinds of specific targets related to these three areas: Capturing carbon dioxide emissions, with a focus on trees.

Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming – and save the planet

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Guardian columnist George Monbiot offers the prospect of high-tech "farmfree food" that includes the prospect of Organic Carbon Capture: T he new technologies I call farmfree food create astonishing possibilities to save both people and planet. Farmfree food will allow us to hand back vast areas of land and sea to nature, permitting  rewilding  and  carbon drawdown  on a massive scale.

Coral in the Gulf of Aqaba is thriving despite rising sea temperatures and scientists want to know why

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One answer, of course, is that nature is a lot more adaptable than people, especially experts, are inclined to admit. ABC News (Au), December 27, 2019

Forget the log cabin. Wood buildings are climbing skyward — with pluses for the planet.

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Washington Post , December 12, 2019 reports , " And some environmentalists tout its ability to lock up carbon to combat climate change." To be sure, not all environmentalists agree, but carbon capture, in its myriad forms, is the obvious solution.  If there's too much CO2 in the atmosphere, take it out. 

Farmers Are Figuring It Out--There's Gold in Those Fields

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Politico , December 9 .   Alternate headline: "Farmers starting to see how the Green New Deal could be the new parity--the key to new funding sources."