Plans to suck carbon from the air by growing trees conflict with the need to grow crops.
You've had the heirloom tomatoes and artisanal, grass-fed steaks, the small-production wine so perfectly translated from the soil you can almost taste the olive trees growing beside the vine rows.
At the southern end of the growing range, the trees are thriving and hundreds of saplings are taking root.
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Throughout the islands, you may be able to find the stinking toe served in juice or pick it from one of the wild-growing trees, though recent storms have destroyed some older trees, so the fruit is harder to find than it once was.
It has moved from growing the trees to processing the fruit, and is now the largest bulk supplier of fresh juice to national brands such as Tropicana.
"The weeds are growing up like trees and they are going to start interfering with the houses if the roots come through and we don't want that, " she said.
In Milan, we shared an update this week on Bosco Verticale, a new high-rise development that will feature the world's first vertical forest with large trees growing from the balconies.
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Some are open to the sky, some have fountains and some have ancient trees growing out to the roof.
The actual venue for the news conference was no less strange - a cross between a tent and a greenhouse, perhaps like an abandoned aviary - with greenery draped around the white trellis work, miniature orange trees in tubs and two large trees growing up between the TV cameras.
It can then be turned into plantations growing palm oil, rubber and fast-growing trees for the booming pulp-and-paper industry.
The pressure of a desperately poor and growing population has led to the indiscriminate felling of trees, for fuel as well as to increase cultivable acreage.
These too rely on building 3-D models of trees and the fruit growing on them.
In some Thai villages up to 10% of the land is devoted to growing coconut trees, which are harvested every month and produce up to 70 nuts a year.
On one scouting expedition, he spotted a grove of palms growing in the sandy soil, trees not native to Florida that had sprouted from a batch of coconuts from a boat that had foundered off Cuba.
The oil multinational hopes its improved trees, now growing in test sites in Uruguay and Chile, will prove a boon to the pulp and paper industry.
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The primary school counts 430 students and 17 teachers, grapples with classic problems of rural schools in many parts of the world from overcrowding and lack of clean water to difficulty in growing much-needed shade trees and river overflows in the rainy season.
When Cristina Baker and her husband, Jorge Ruz, came upon Hacienda Xcanatun just outside Merida, for instance, there were trees growing out of the walls, and the government's preservation agency had deemed it unrecoverable.
The branches of trees were gnarled by the winds into unreal shapes, their leaves growing close to the bark as if for protection.
They are growing different crops, planting trees, harvesting rainwater and growing fodder for livestock to minimize the impacts of climate change.
"I thought the idea that trees had souls was a little hokey growing up, " says Yarnall.
Mr. Frampton sees faster-growing, prettier Christmas trees as critical to the state's agricultural economy, which is reeling from the decline of tobacco and from rapid suburban growth.
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Puppetry continues to be one of the fastest growing elements in the Fringe programme with a range of shows from One Eye Gone to The Man Who Planted Trees.
An outsider to the services industry, he realizes only the healthiest trees in this forest are going to keep on growing.
With its European-style mansions, Art Deco touches and mature trees, the neighborhood is increasingly upscale, attracting growing numbers of Western expats as well as bistros and boutiques.
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But the conditions aren't right for growing on to bushes, let alone trees.
They can now opt to make their trees public for all Ancestry users to access, thus growing the online database.
Desert areas are expanding by 3, 000 square miles each year and farmers are being paid to plant trees to halt this advance, thus further reducing the grain-growing area.
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