2,000 new trees for San Francisco — and less carbon in the air, too

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San Francisco planting 2,000 trees. Napa County allowing 14,000 to be cut for one vineyard project alone, while sending children out to plant acorns.

 
" San Francisco officials are beginning to chart an ambitious course to sharply curtail the city’s carbon emissions over the next three decades. The first step: planting more trees — a lot of them. On Thursday, Mayor Mark Farrell will announce that the city is taking steps to become carbon-neutral — with no net release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — by 2050."
 

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