European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 19 your Money ease your but not much else planting a tree wont make up for that big Sun by Michael Hill the associated press if you Plant some is it of to drive an Escalade the question int As silly As it people worried about global warming increasingly Are trying to offset the car Bon dioxide the leading Green House Gas they spew into the atmosphere when they Fly or flick on a one idea popular with the eco conscious is to have Trees planted for you get to keep driving and Fly but those Trees Are supposed to suck in your Trail of whole forests have been funded by tree Loving celebrities like Leonardo Dicaprio and and More modest packages Tai lored to typical Consumers Are but some researchers say Plant ing Trees while a Good thing is at Best a marginal solution to global still others decry tree planters who continue to Jet off to drive 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about All that driving planting a tree May ease your but it wont do much for the environmental big get off far for Trees for the future will Plant 400 Trees in a developing country to handle your car in Delta air lines will allow online ticket buyers to help offset emis Sions of their flights through tree plantings in the and abroad for Domestic round for the science is sound Trees take in Carbon dioxide As part of photosynthesis and store the car but even conservationists caution its not As simple As Plant ing a sapling so you can Crank up the air conditioning without offset groups use averages to estimate How much Carbon a Given tree or forested acre can for the non profit conservation fund figures that each tree planted captures less than 1 tons Over 100 John Kadyszewski of Winrock a nonprofit that works on environmental notes that most of the calculators use conservative mean ing there not Likely to exaggerate the conservation fund and both say they Plant More than enough Trees to deliver on promised off there Are other potential prob some researchers suggest forests in the snowy North might actually increase local warming by absorbing Sun Light that would otherwise be reflected into and decaying Trees release some of that captured Carbon Back into the at maybe most some researchers say its simply not possible to Plant enough Trees to have a significant effect on global Michael chief scientist at the nonpartisan climate Institute in said tree planting has value As a Stop Gap measure while society at tempts to reduce greenhouse but University of Victoria climate scientist Andrew Weaver fears tree offsets could steal the focus of a problem that requires technological advances and behavioural the danger is that you could actually think youre solving a Weaver it makes you feel it makes you feel warm and like changing a couple of Light but the reality is its not going to have a significant and sensibility v Money tip of the Day Rich dont save either Market watch Santa the Low to no savings rate in the United states extends to Rich peo ple it int just Lowland mid dle income people who find it difficult saving Money people who earn a lot say they also have trouble stashing Money Hsc Bank reports in a new Survey that savings barriers stretch across income its Clear from this Survey that savings hurdles transcend income Levels and that savings re quires More discipline than we May regardless of House hold said Kevin mar senior vice Hsc Bank in the United the data revealed recurring Bills get in the Way of saving for the majority of households at both ends of the income As Hsc reports that people with More than in household who constitute the top per cent of report facing Many obstacles when it comes to indeed when Hsc asked what prevents them from saving the top answer was the need to pay everyday with 34 percent of respondents of those who earn More than Hsc found that 49 percent of respondents with at least in income Arent saving More because 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