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How to plant a tree for the Big Climate Fightback

We know that planting more trees is one way to achieve that goal as they filter our air, using up carbon dioxide and creating oxygen. With that in mind, a conservation charity is aiming to put up a tree for every person in the UK. But that’s going to require a lot of effort. The Woodland Trust is launching the Big Climate Fightback, asking a million Brits to help erect more trees by the end of November 2019. Within the next six years, the Trust hopes to have planted 64 million trees. If the UK hopes to cut its carbon emissions to zero by 2050, it will need to plant 1.5 billion trees altogether. That would require 50 million young trees going into the ground each year before the deadline. If that’s something you want to contribute to, here’s how to get involved. The Woodland Trust offers tree-planting services in four areas – on an individual, business, and school level, and for farmers and landowners. If you want to plant the trees yourself, The Woodland Trust will contribute up to 75
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words: This 75-Year-Old Man Has Planted 27,000 Trees In Last 50 Years

While we talk about climate change and deforestation, saving the Aarey forests and the importance of planting trees, there are people who have been trying to make the environment healthy, for years. And the fruits - or the trees - of their efforts are visible everywhere. While we are just waking up to the importance of planting more trees and not cutting any more, Ranaram Bishnoi from Jodhpur has been planting trees for the past 50 years. Tweeting about him IFS Parveen Kaswan wrote, ‘Meet Ranaram Bishnoi from #Jodhpur, at the age of 75 he is on a mission to plant trees around the village. He is doing it from last 50 years and has planted 27,000 trees till now. He not only plant them but also provide water and take care of them. All on his own'. Apparently he is known as 'ahhu' (tree-man) by the people in his area. He reportedly walks 3 km to reach the dune, where he takes care of trees, from his house. Till now he has planted a wide variety of trees including, Neem
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Plant trees, make the river flow again

What is the connection between spirituality and economics? Why is a mystic going to the World Economic Forum? I have been confronted by these questions far too often. My response is simple: Whatever the nature of one’s business, it is essentially about human well-being – and that is my business, too! Today, as i endeavour to mobilise a peoples’ movement to rejuvenate the Cauvery river, the same question resurfaces. But the fact is, the connection between spirituality and the natural world is a profound one. A tree is not simply an aesthetic backdrop under which Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment, or where gurus set up ashrams. We inhabit a living cosmos. What the tree exhales, we inhale. That is how vital trees are, to our lives. Physics tells us that every particle in our bodies is in constant dialogue with the entire cosmos. This is not an abstract lesson in interdependence; it is a living reality. Being a yogi means simply this: Whatever science is trying to explain, you
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