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1. jfrazier
   Member

   Global warming is real and we must take decisive and timely action to slow or reverse its impact, both for us and future generations. Please use this forum to provide input to the Carbon Offset work group of the KC Climate Protection Planning process. We are interested in strategies that KCMO or the Kansas City region can implement to capture and store or sequester CO2 to reduce its impact on global warming. We will be having working sessions to consider recommendations to the Steering Committee on Feb 6 and Mar 6.

   - Jamie Frazier, Work Group Chair

   Posted: 2007-01-24 17:21:15 #

2. ronmclinden
   Member

   I'll defer to Helene and others about the details, but I like the idea of planting trees. Trees provide shade (and thus coolness), they hold rain water and thus reduce flooding, and they also sequester carbon -- at least as long as they are standing.

   The city is far behind in replacing street trees, and there are a lot of treeless yards around town as well.

   Let's have the city prepare street tree planting locations -- bore the holes, then loose-fill them, thus leaving easy digging for citizens. Specify what kind of tree is to go in and let citizens (or neighborhood groups) do the planting.

   Also encourage people to plant trees in their own yards. MDC and KCPL have helpful guides on what to -- and not to -- to plant and where.

   Importantly, create a registry of all such trees and issue a marker of some kind that can be attached to the tree -- Climate Protection Forest Project - 2007.

   Ten thousand rain gardens? Yes. And let's also have a million trees.

   Posted: 2007-01-24 22:57:47 #

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