This Christmas, her little ornament will replace the angel at the top of our tree.
Many technologies have tried to deliver on that green vision, but none so far have halted our tree-killing ways.
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But our tree has been having a hard time recently -- this is our third one in as many years.
Her death from a seizure earlier this year felt as if someone ripped a branch from our family tree, and the loss still hurts.
Email has done much to break our reliance on tree consuming printers with their tremendous revenue streams for the replacement cartridge industry.
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And this year we decorated it -- we call it our Joining Forces tree, because the decorations -- the main decorations on the tree are handmade ornaments from military kids who live in bases all across the world.
Such fast change is not seen among apes, and while Prof Tattersall acknowledges the importance of the move our ancestors made from a tree-dwelling, to a ground-dwelling existence - something which has not affected our primate cousins - he says it is not enough to explain what is observed.
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We also incorporated WV significance by including our state animal, tree, bird, and flower.
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So, as a child when we come up here we used to just always put our gum on the tree.
"If you look at the tree of life, nearly all of our microbes, and thus our antibiotics, come from one branch on that tree, " says Barton.
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Did we push too far with our attempt to bite from the tree of Knowledge?
Today, the South Street gum tree in Philadelphia is our unlikely landmark.
Now, in many older neighborhoods, the urban forest has matured, making our suburban spaces shadier, and increasingly our garden understory is affected by tree roots.
The first thing they see, the very first tree they see honors our men and women in uniform for the extraordinary sacrifice they and their families have made.
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Our sharp-eyed guide parted tree fronds to reveal a drowsy kingfisher, tugged an iguana away from its midnight snack and borrowed a red-eyed tree frog from a banana patch.
Some are quirky, unexpected things that catch our attention: a blinking Christmas tree in February, the cartoon "Madagascar" showing on state TV, a basket of baguettes at the supermarket.
This obligation to future generations I think was well symbolized by the tree planting that we started our meeting with.
On the main street near our house, a very large maple tree had snapped in half and was festooned with power lines, blocking half the road.
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We already handled far more than our share, and had less than one tree per acre.
It is a structural British problem, too: only on our side of the English Channel can you be a tree-hugging centrist and Eurosceptic.
And now, though I was not up in the apple tree, I had found various salients in our half acre that allowed me to see a good deal of her at night, when she went to bed.
And we will continue to water that tree just as we continue to nurture the relationship between our two countries.
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Never more than when Basil thrashed an Austin 1100 with the branch of a tree, an act of inspired pointlessness that seemed analogous to our own situation.
Our programme this year started on 15 December with the lighting of the Christmas tree.
As we trudged along, our surroundings changed from barren, stony outcroppings to dry pine forest to beech tree clusters to mucky, grassy, deciduous bogs.
The tree is decorated by families whose loved ones gave their lives in service to our nation.
Over the course of the day, the trail bent to the contours of the gorge, taking us through fragrant forests of deodar a Himalayan cedar tree and tall rai conifers, toward the snowy mountaintops that were our ultimate destination.
Our headlamps played tricks with colour, turning new spruce tips silver and making a lichen-shagged tree sparkle.
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