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Did you know all seeds have their own way of spreading? Some even are helicoptershapes, like acer seeds.
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Probably not a good idea, lots of spinning blades that might cut off things you want to keep
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People should do it, not drones. Not ”bombs”. There is special connection between plants and humans in this process. This ”NASA” guy should know better.
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people are not hand-cutting down trees. they are doing it with machines that can remove an entire forest in a day or two. to combat this, replanting can’t happen the ‘old fashion’ way. While it’s very romantic to consider walking through a forest and individually planting trees while being one with nature, what needs to happen is we need trees planted asap. I personally commend this person for being innovative and using our technology and looking forward to help solve this problem. We don’t have the luxury of time anymore.
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Beth Camp some people can find time for doing it, the right way (so can we): http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/india-plants-50-million-trees-uttar-pradesh-reforestation/
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as forests are burned constantly would be a good idea to replant .if you really want to help the environment
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Trees also need their own families that’s what a forest is it is a family of trees and symbiotic relationships interspecies tree relationships and plants. Older trees suckle their young underground and send out essential oils to protect the area above ground. The forest soil is teeming with life and consciousness. Well planting lots of trees is a wonderful thing I hope somehow it will be a conscious Forest as well somehow. Read “The Hidden Life of trees”.
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I very much like what you’re saying here Janet. I have a saying that “trees are people too”. And the phrase “the conscious forest” is worthy of a book title. In the Zoroastrian belief system trees are held in high regard as the natural ecological partners for humanity in many respects, not the least of which is having an abundant Earth. If you ask a child : have you touched a tree today? It sets off a natural curiosity within them. Trees are people too!!! ?????
Reply If you are interested, I write articles about living amid the forest (to help city folks learn and not cut down forests for lawns) here: http://www.ocn.me and this article is on the enchanted forests, or how trees communicate via electricity in the fungi at their roots: http://www.ocn.me/v17n3.htm?zoom_highlight=enchanted+forests#hang
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problem is, they are planning “monoculture” drops. if you were legitmately going to do it the right way, you need to create seed balls featuring all the seeds you need for a wild forest, encased in a mixture of clay so it would slowely release the seeds over time, and make it hard for animals and birds to eat them.
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Tree farms? They are planting huge tree farms? What, pine for boards? That isn’t replacing forests, that is preventing forests. :'(
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You would be surprised, then, at the amazing forest as pantry… forest foraging is abundant with food for animals as well as people. It does take a mature forest to be able to support feeding its own young trees and other plants as well as humans and animals, just as a mature female supports and suckles her young. Read my article above for a taste of the wild abundance our trees offer us. It is so wonderful.
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Another crap idea shared by ‘eco’-snippets – get a grip you guys and do some proper research.
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More fantasy.. A BILLION?? Get lose..actually you are already lost in space. As a retired horticulturalist let me say this…it would take 200,000 MILES of nursery rows to grow that many seedlings up to transplant size! It would take about $100,000,000 worth of biodegradable pots, 1,250,000 hrs to plant them in the pots and ad much time again to load then on roughly 1000 transport trucks to deliver them. If the man and the drone work 24 hours a day every day of the year without so much as a battery change time, this imaginary engineer will have to live about another 10,000 years..
Do you have any concept of how big a billion is?
If you have ever planted tree you would understand how silly an idea this is!
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Trees suckle their young underground and support them above ground so throwing babies out into the Earth is not as sound of an idea as it appears.
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Hope they are planting trees native to the areas where they are dropping and creating a mixed forest. Just dropping “weedy” non-native trees isn?t going to cut it. I like India?s approach of thousands of people planting native trees, in a large group at once.
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Pure BS. Planting does not sustained the trees for ultimate success. Try agtain with honesty.
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What do you think of this idea Simon James O’Rourke Looks good to me.
Maybe as a marketing strategy you could include new tree planting with each of your commissions?
I will never understand the hate on these type of ideas ? nor the need for the conversations
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It would be much better and much more powerful to protect the trees that we do have in the forests that we do have in the ecosystem that we do have that has been in creation for as long as the Earth has had photosynthesis ergo, life.
Reply you would be better off creating clay seed balls to drop instead, and that was the plan developed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka seed balls – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_ball
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So this is the news from few years ago and this article says thet there should be operating model by the end of 2015… any recent news about this project?! Or you just reposting same old news over and over again, fishing for likes?
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Complete B.S.- will never happen because horticulture is more difficult than they assume.
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let guess, a mono crop.. see thats how they think. they dont “plant a sustainable forest with full species support (fungi, ground cover, shrub, small, med and large trees), but thats what they could do, but that doesn’t suit the agenda, who ever does this, intends to cut that forest down in a few years, so its a mono crop. Mono crops often damage the soil, pine trees for instance will acidify the soil, eucalyps will create oils that in the leaf litter prevent the growth of other species, etc. this isnt a new idea either, the Japanese gentleman farmer, Masanobu Fukuoka introduced this idea using seed balls, made of clay and soil, mixed with an assortment of seeds that will create just that, a complete forest for the region it would be used. seed balls resist the “theft” of seeds by birds and animals, while at the same time provide shelter as they break down, 100% natural, and allow the plants to germinate that best suit the micro area. Look the guy up, plenty of books out about him.
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