One of my local councils (Lewisham) just cut down a lovely lime tree that I remember from 30 years ago, under some bs about property insurance.
Circle of life I suppose.
Didn’t Mr Beast’s tree planting fundraiser plant 1 tree for 1 dollar?
Are these gold-plated trees the mayor is buying?
While the likes of Plymouth and Sheffield are cutting theirs down. Trees are the best carbon capture technology we have and more needs to be done to both plant new trees and preserve the oldest trees we have. A planting revolution like we have never seen before might actually help us meet our climate goals to some extent.
**The thing I love about London is the amount of Green we have**.
If you see other cities around the world quite a few are just endless concrete jungles.
Just a parade of huge buildings which permenantly cut off light to the streets below and make it even darker in winter.
It’s why Canary Wharf is nice to look at… a distance. But no matter how they hype it most well off people would rather live near Victoria Park, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Hampstead Heath, Richmond Park, Wimbledon Common, the London Wetlands, Epping Forest and other greener parts of London.
I hate these ridiculous “plant a tree” campaigns. It cost basically nothing to plant a tree. The main problem is to keep it there and take care of it for 50 years
Couldn’t have used that to crack down on crime thus increasing revenue to the city because of increased opportunity and people working more rather than shanking each other.
Pretty sure there is a guy who did this in a month.
What? 3.8 million for 100k trees? Didn’t Mr beast plant a million trees with each one only costing like 1 dollar?
There for sure some money stealing fuckery going on here.
In true Reddit fashion, not reading past the headline (which is poorly worded) is in order.
It’s not £3.8m to plant 100,000 trees
It’s £3.8m into a green fund which will, among other things, plant 100,000 trees. It’ll also include improving access to green spaces, protecting vulnerable green spaces, restoring biodiversity along km of rivers.
The proposals are far more than just mass planting some saplings in an already-vacant bit of land and hoping for the best.
I’ve seen a massive influx of baby trees planted around my area. I thinks its awesome.
£38 per tree?
Which of his mates companies/tory donors are providing the trees?
Shame those 100000 trees won’t be enough to offset the Co2 he pumps out daily from his bullet proof perk limo
Now don’t worry, YES I may have upset a few families or whatever with the absurd price of ULEZ but don’t worry.. I’m planting trees.
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One of my local councils (Lewisham) just cut down a lovely lime tree that I remember from 30 years ago, under some bs about property insurance.
Circle of life I suppose.
Didn’t Mr Beast’s tree planting fundraiser plant 1 tree for 1 dollar?
Are these gold-plated trees the mayor is buying?
While the likes of Plymouth and Sheffield are cutting theirs down. Trees are the best carbon capture technology we have and more needs to be done to both plant new trees and preserve the oldest trees we have. A planting revolution like we have never seen before might actually help us meet our climate goals to some extent.
**The thing I love about London is the amount of Green we have**.
If you see other cities around the world quite a few are just endless concrete jungles.
Just a parade of huge buildings which permenantly cut off light to the streets below and make it even darker in winter.
It’s why Canary Wharf is nice to look at… a distance. But no matter how they hype it most well off people would rather live near Victoria Park, Hyde Park, Kensington Gardens, Hampstead Heath, Richmond Park, Wimbledon Common, the London Wetlands, Epping Forest and other greener parts of London.
I hate these ridiculous “plant a tree” campaigns. It cost basically nothing to plant a tree. The main problem is to keep it there and take care of it for 50 years
Couldn’t have used that to crack down on crime thus increasing revenue to the city because of increased opportunity and people working more rather than shanking each other.
Pretty sure there is a guy who did this in a month.
What? 3.8 million for 100k trees? Didn’t Mr beast plant a million trees with each one only costing like 1 dollar?
There for sure some money stealing fuckery going on here.
In true Reddit fashion, not reading past the headline (which is poorly worded) is in order.
It’s not £3.8m to plant 100,000 trees
It’s £3.8m into a green fund which will, among other things, plant 100,000 trees. It’ll also include improving access to green spaces, protecting vulnerable green spaces, restoring biodiversity along km of rivers.
The proposals are far more than just mass planting some saplings in an already-vacant bit of land and hoping for the best.
I’ve seen a massive influx of baby trees planted around my area. I thinks its awesome.
£38 per tree?
Which of his mates companies/tory donors are providing the trees?
Shame those 100000 trees won’t be enough to offset the Co2 he pumps out daily from his bullet proof perk limo
Now don’t worry, YES I may have upset a few families or whatever with the absurd price of ULEZ but don’t worry.. I’m planting trees.