If your summers are boiling, it is a good reason to do a tree count in your town or city. Each summer in India seems worse than the last. And it is not just because you feel sweat streaming down your face and back, but because there are people are actually dying of heat every day! (See this ‘Hundreds die in Indian heatwave‘). And one of the main reasons our summers are feeling more and more like HELL, is that more and more trees are being cut down. The trees that remain (more…)
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If Your Summers are Boiling, Do a Tree Count!
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Tagged electricity, energy saving, environment, heat, rising temperatures, summers, transpiration, Trees
Posted by Rita Banerji on June 5, 2012
https://ritabanerjisblog.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/cutting-down-trees-gives-you-boiling-summers/
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