10/10/10

Sustainable Duxbury Plants Trees at Tarkiln Center

Last Friday, October 8, the members of Sustainable Duxbury took part in the 350.org Global Work Day by helping the department of public works plant four linden and maple trees that Sustainable Duxbury donated to the Tarkiln Community center. These trees will be a welcome addition to the farmers market held at the center and will provide shade while taking carbon out of the air for years to come. By taking part in this global work day Sustainable Duxbury joined over 7,000 other work parties being held in 188 countries around the globe where people are rolling up their sleeves and putting their money and efforts into fighting global warming. The 10/10/10 Global Work Day gave millions of people the opportunity to say to politicians “we are getting to work to stop global warming how about you”. Planting trees is one small way we can work to bring atmospheric carbon back down to 350 parts per million (ppm). This is the number agreed upon at last year’s global summit in Copenhagen as the upper limit at which mankind can preserve a planet similar to the one on which civilization developed, and to which life on earth has adapted. Today that number is 290 ppm and climbing. For more information please visit www.350.org or www.sustainableduxbury.org