| Environmental expert Harry Hollis
He has been active in environmental issues for more than 30 years. Please send your questions through the link at the top of this page. Harry, are you ready to get started? HARRY HOLLIS: Yes, I guess so. QUESTION: I know trees take in CO2 and produce oxygen. However, I have heard they are carbon neutral because they give the carbon back to the atmosphere when they die and decay. So planting trees will not help the greenhouse gas problem. Is this correct? William E Combs, Bloomfield HARRY HOLLIS: That's a difficult question to answer. I'm not sure that I can give you a very good answer, but trees do take CO2 out of the atmostphere. A mature tree, of course, takes more than will a smaller tree. What is necessary, in my opinion, is to plant more trees than we have now. At one time, the state of Indiana was 95% covered with forest, and now, it's 5% perhaps.
82% of Canadians would rather work than retire: poll
When my husband announced he was retiring, many of his co-workers asked him where he was going to work. The expectation was that he would find another job elsewhere... When he said he wouldn't get another job, people were shocked and asked "but what will you do??" His answer "anything I want." .
Hip-Hop Rumors: Joel Ortiz Off Aftermath? Is Bow Wow Crazy? Amy ...
Wow Bow doesn't have to do this. He doesn't. He can still make his name Bow Wow again. The rumor is that he got pissed off at Chris Brown and spit on his R&B counterpart. That's word to Omarion! Anyway apparently at a show in Dallas, Wow Bow ended his set off and accused Brown of messing up his set. How? I'm not sure how. Chris Brown is the headliner of the show, but I don't know what he did. Anyway, Wow Bow had to be restrained and out came the spit. I know this is only a rumor, but I have to ask: IS WOW BOW CRAZY?
Now that I got a good laugh out of that, you should know that Wow Bow has stated on the record that this never happened. Chris Brown hasn't issued any denial.
OBAMA HAS A SHOT!
OK, I know one doesn't have anything to do with the other, but I thought I would say this anyway.
Legally Blonde to woman of will
He calls Witherspoon his "all-American girl Trojan horse". But the actress, despite having the distinction of being a direct descendent of John Witherspoon, a signatory to the declaration of American independence, refuses to be publicly drawn on her own standpoint on the issue. .
Letters to the editor, January 22
I yawned at John Crane because he should just cut and paste his previous letters to the editor. They have all said what he said in this one. Yes, these are facts...there is history...before 9-11 we really did not have a clue about the Muslim faith because we are a country that does what to reach out and help everyone. We are a great country, the greatest in the world. We know what country these terrorists came from but they were not living there , they were in other countries, like Germany. It is not the geographical location that is the problem, it is the mindset of taking over the world. We do not see the same things the President sees, he has to reach out to Arabia because the Democrats would not allow him to drill for oil here 8 years ago! The liberals will not rest until they run this country into the ground.
Fed's Lacker says further rate cuts quite possible
Inflation is still higher than I would like to see it personally ... I just don't think it is a sensible strategy to put our inflation objectives on the shelf for the duration." In response to audience questions, Lacker noted that one of the influences on rising prices was the dollar's declining value against other major currencies, which makes everything from imported oil to consumer goods more costly. "The falling value of the dollar externally obviously provides some impetus to inflation domestically through input prices," he said. The dollar has lost value amid concerns about U.S. economic prospects and because investors foresee U.S. interest rates declining. The Fed has cut interest rates by a full percentage point since mid-September to protect the U.S. economy from a slumping housing market and global credit crunch.
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