Like so many others around the world, we in the DC Breeze organization want to protect the environment. We want to make your game experience as ‘carbon negative’ as possible, and that’s why for every paid admission to a home game in 2018, we’ll plant one tree via our new partner ForestPlanet.
ForestPlanet is a 501(c)3 organization that supports large scale, low-cost reforestation efforts all over the world. They help plant trees in regions where they have the greatest positive impact on the soil, the environment and communities in peril. The DC Breeze organization is excited to work with ForestPlanet and their network of tree planting partners to implement this tree planting program. For more info about ForestPlanet and its initiatives, CLICK HERE.
Before photo of an area where the mangrove trees have been clear-cut.
Thanks, Steve. This makes a good carbon case for leaving these forests on public lands alone: “Reforestation, afforestation, lengthened harvest cycles on private lands, and restricting harvest on public lands increase NECB 56% by 2100, with the latter two actions contributing the most. Resultant cobenefits included water availability and biodiversity, primarily from increased forest area, age, and species diversity. Alterations in forest management can contribute to increasing the land sink and decreasing emissions by keeping carbon in high biomass forests, extending harvest cycles, reforestation, and afforestation. Forests are carbon-ready and do not require new technologies or infrastructure for immediate mitigation of climate change. Growing forests for bioenergy production competes with forest carbon sequestration and does not reduce emissions in the next decades. It also discounts the idea of storing carbon in wood products: “Carbon stored in buildings generally outlives its usefulness or is replaced within decades rather than the centuries possible in forests