Peach and Apple Blooms Reduce Carbon Emissions

Do you live near an area that has high levels of carbon monoxide? Experts say, plant peach and apple trees. They absolutely love it.

As we discussed in the last blog, roses are lovers of carbon monoxide and look beautiful in gardens. It's all in the bloom. The same thing goes for peach and apple blooms, they thrive best in areas that produce high levels of carbon monoxide.

So if you live near high traffic areas, a good project to reduce carbon emissions is to plant a few peach or apple trees. If you don't want to bother with the fruit, then here's a few ideas to get rid of it.
Compost
Allow your neighbors to come and pick it
Donate to a local shelter
Sell to a local corner fruit stand

Lovers of Carbon Monoxide

Wonder why your roses are so beautiful this year? A farm agent in a nearby county annouced recently to local farmers complaining of poor pumpkin crops--that while their pumpkins might be doing poorly, they should look at the roses.

While Pumpkins cannot tolerate high levels of carbon monoxide, roses absolutely LOVE it and flourish beautifully.

Earlier this season, I complained of the deer eating the few rose blooms I had on my new rose bush, recently, bought at the local hardware store, thinking it may not produce more. Then to my amazement, the bush kept producing new sets of buds after the deer had their treat. It's still producing beautiful red velvet buds and it soon will be winter.

Is this a sign that if we do not reduce the carbon monoxide levels our eating habits may change? Instead of a pumpkin festival we will be celebrating an Autum Rose Festival. Can you imagine pumpkins going extinct?

Something to think about.

Asphalt Versus Green Houses

A local Westin Hotel is working through a LEED AP consultant to help manage the building's efficiency updates. One of the major projects is replacing all of the windows.

When a friend of mine called to ask what they were doing with the old windows, a Hotel VP mentioned that the LEED AP consultant had made arrangements for the windows to be recycled through an asphalt company. The windows then become part of the asphalt placed on our local roads and driveways.

The sad part seems to be the popularity of this action amongst most LEED consultants to get rid of glass. Because its the simplest, easiest method without the consultant having to work very hard and still retain the majority of profit in his/her fees along with still receiving publicity for going green.

There are so many projects that would love to receive used/old windows. Just to name a few...greenhouses for local high schools, recycling back into other glass products, etc.

Unfortunately, the carbon and environmental footprint of asphalt production and use is far heavier then concrete thoroughfares.

We still aren't educating fast enough to understand that sustainability is finding the best practices along with finding balance. Finding balance in recycling glass windows should not be encouraging unsustainable practices.