Mother Earth grows
petunias,
and pita pockets
and pipinghot potpies
for puppies prepared..
and
peachtrees and pink pears
peas and peppers
and orange pips not blue
under skies sandpiper'd.
and Pleiades stars peeping,
through purple eve round
favorite papal pulpits:
the poplars and papaya trees..
(to Diane and Don P )
Author's Notes/Comments:
Mother Earth needs zillions of trees to stabilize the weather. The violent erratic weather of April is caused by the unprecedented destruction of trees in Cameroon, Canada, the United States, and most of the world. Only a few countries like Thailand & China
have banned logging. But China is importing lumber. The
equatorial rainforest is
70 degrees while temperate zone desert can be 130 degrees ..
Each average tree
evaporates 36 to 45 gallons of water into the atmosphere which
become mist,
clouds, and then rain.
Reforesting the world
1. eat the products
of trees, vines, bushes and plants to reinforce orchards, groves
http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian
2. plant trees .. save seeds and scatter them in unmowed
areas http://www.sierraclub.org http://www.freetree.org
3. cancel the daily newspaper ..read it at the library or
get it on the web http://www.greenpeace.org
4. use 100%
cotton or rice or other
less treekilling paper .. cotton paper lasts 400 to 500 years as
compared to 60
years for some tree papers
5. install a water spray in the
bathroom .. have clean cotton cloths
available for nonsolid waste.
6. buy food in bulk (fruit is packaged by Mother Earth)
http://www.earthisland.org
7. stop mowing down plants
http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow/119
8. Convince Habitat, home builders' associations, governments and private
builders to build with brick, block, stone, stucco or other nontree material a. this prevents termites
b. requires much
less painting c. is better insulated d. prevents fires e. increases in value more than
rotting wood homes.. some stone structures last for more
than a millenium
9. save trees
through inner
courtyard design
10. work to elect earth conscious politicians
11.
boycott earth abusers
12. avoid fast food
paper waste
abusers
wonderful poem