More trees were to be chopped down but this was reduced following the public consultation.
He uses numbers: the new campus will have 350% more landscape, 60% more trees, 90% less surface parking.
The project includes planting more trees, restoring wetlands, building natural dams in streams and reducing water run-off from fields.
Generally, if more trees are cut down then there would be fewer of them to absorb the carbon emissions.
We peer into the woods and see only trees, leaves and more trees no sign of the famously elusive and skittish leopard.
Landowners in the Yorkshire Dales are being urged to plant more trees.
On the East Coast, for instance, we have more trees today than we did 80 years ago, despite an enormous increase in population.
"Until you really analyze your budget, you don't realize that the bill for your arborist has gone up 20% over the past five years, and it's not because you have more trees, " she says.
Americans are not buying more artificial trees this year and at least one Chinese manufacturer is going to have a blue Christmas because of it.
It could mean more flooding, more downed trees and power outages at a time when hundreds of thousands of people ( estimates are at 600, 000 in NJ alone) are still without power.
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Stretching along British Columbia's island-dotted coastline, its marvels include ancient red cedar cathedrals (some of the trees are more than a thousand years old) and other towering trees, glacier-fed fjords and wooded islands.
There are also plans to "green" the city with more plants and trees.
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Lawn and golf-course grass will be tougher, trees more resistant to drought, or adapted to clean up contaminated soil.
Raising the price of park passes for the elderly won't make a real dent or help young people enjoy the trees more.
The parks advocates say that more than 50 trees have been removed from the park since 2010 to make room for private events.
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In Los Angeles, the space shuttle Endeavor's final journey is causing controversy, as more than 400 trees are being cut down to make way for the spacecraft.
The opening was delayed after more than 200 trees were brought down along the valley road in the recent heavy snow and rain, and the route became dangerous.
"A researcher I was speaking to recently reckons green walls in urban canyon environments (areas where walls are higher than the width of the road separating them) are more effective than trees at collecting particles because the way the wind eddies around and then moves down the wall, " Laurence said.
So we started into the trees once more and got ourselves down by a roundabout route.
With gouges and large holes, the trees are more susceptible to decay and disease.
The Alrewas site houses about 50, 000 trees and more than 240 memorials.
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Research showed that Taxol can be made by fermenting the fungus in vats, but so far harvesting it from trees remains more cost effective.
He appears on more calves' family trees than any other bull.
The Alrewas site acknowledges "the personal sacrifices made by the armed and civil services of this country" and houses about 50, 000 trees and more than 240 memorials.
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But we choose to rise to these times for the same reason we rose to those tougher times: Because we are all proud peoples who share more than sprawling family trees.
Drive east and you see the same, an undulent landscape carpeted with buildings completed or under construction, roads thick with traffic, and a few forlorn patches of the original Atlantic Forest or more recently transplanted eucalyptus trees to break up the relentless jumble of concrete.
Yet, according to the best available data, kamikaze trees crush only some six people to death a year (though more die after driving into fallen trees or branches).
It took a lot more than a few downed trees in south Florida to get her attention.
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