Your criteria are shared by countless homeowners wanting to landscape their
yards (fast growing, long-lived, low maintenance). Unfortunately, there are
physiological tradeoffs involved, whereby fast growing trees tend to live
fast in other ways, too, and hence are as a general rule not
I am trying to find papers on three issues:
1) has the average environmental literacy (in the US or abroad)
increased, declined, or remained stable over the
last few decades.
2) does environmental literacy level influence engagement and/or
interest in environment issues. (I am also interested in
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The International Helmholtz Graduate School
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Ecolog:
[Note: I, for one, like this way of responding to initial posts, with the
original subject-line and the string of subsequent comments preserved, rather
than individual responses to the initial post. I know it is not possible for
this to remain uniform, because some will post before one
Tyson adds a much appreciated nuanced response. I agree that
ecological context should be taken into account whenever possible, as
well as with his point about looking at the whole carbon footprint of
a planting project. I am unfamiliar with the ecological context of
South-Central Iowa:I was
