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What Are Urban Trees Worth? Billions in Stored Carbon Emissions, Thousands to House Prices…

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on What Are Urban Trees Worth? Billions in Stored Carbon Emissions, Thousands to House Prices…

photo: Wonderlane / Creative Commons Lots of effort recently on quantifying the financial value of ecosystem services and here’s one more small piece of that: The US Forest Service has just completed an assessment of the dollar value that trees add to the urban environment and the results are pretty interesting. Surveying Chicago, Sacramento and Portland, here’s what trees are worth:… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Laser and Satellite Technology Maps How Much Carbon the Amazon Rainforests Can Hold

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via alextorrenegra While we know that deforestation means a loss of carbon storage , it’s difficult to quantify just how much carbon can still be stored in what is left of the Amazon rainforest. Standing in the way is both practicality issues (each tree trunk must be measured to estimate its stored carbon) and the cost of accurate accounting. But, ecologist Greg Asner and a team of scientists from the Carnegie Ins… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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