LA is Planting 90.000 Trees To Battle Extreme Heat

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Heat already kills more people in Los Angeles, United States than hurricanes, tornadoes, and other extreme weather events, contributing to an estimated 12,000 deaths per year in the United States, according to research. A critical component of the solution? Trees.
Many major American cities, including Los Angeles, are working to close the major tree canopy coverage equity gap. In this video, we’ll take a look at how LA is planting 90.000 trees to battle extreme heat!
The need to address climate change is front and center at a time when countries around the world are experiencing record-high temperatures and heat waves. Compounding the heat island effect, cities around the world are experiencing thrice as many days of extreme heat as they did in 1980, resulting in an increase in heat-related illnesses.
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[@Circle_of_the_Earth]

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[@b_uppy]

We need a three prong approach as outlined by Walter Jehne: We need rainwater harvesting strategies in the Midwest and West, and other dry, and flood prone areas. This can be done everywhere, in cities, on hillsides, farms, ranches, parkland, parking lots, roadsides, suburban yards; etc are all opportunities. Brad Lancaster has fantastic books on the subject. Trees are important, but we must emphasize biome appropriateness and biodiversity while planting them. Planting diverse, biome-appropriate taprooted-trees higher on hills prevents them from drying, also reducing slide danger, etc. Promoting soil building practices is the third leg. Emphasis on biome-appropriate, diverse plants while avoiding synthetic chemical inputs is key. This would be further enhanced by restoration ag farming practices. This holistic method opts for mob-grazing, polycropping of biome-appropriate, of predominantly perennial, tree, shrubs, and vines (alley-cropping is effective); avoiding bare soil fallow, use of synthetic chemicals, monocropped annuals; overgrazing; CAFOS. Mark Shepard employs and teaches this to repair soil, while growing healthier, abundant food, healthier livestock. This needs teaching and demonstration to implement, and addresses huge portions of land. It's fascinating and well thought out. He is expanding to 5 other farms.

[@b_uppy]

Also pushing for more rail instead of roads leaves more permeable surfaces, which supports more trees...

[@b_uppy]

When was this program implemented? Are they using bioswales, eddy basins, raingardens, etc to avoid having to use expensive piped and pumped water? They need to create guidelines for making rainwater catchments because watering plants is expensive, as is likely any permitting requirements to do much rainwater harvesting.

[@agent9809]

90,000 trees ? Los Angeles is a large populated city. Roughly Los Angeles will need : Between 1 million up to 10 million trees.

[@RafaelMolina1]

LA is actually deforesting the cities. I’m currently fighting for the life of 121 mature Aleppo pine trees in the city of Burbank. Look it up! We need everyone’s help!!!

[@Randomvideos-yr6cc]

Houses can also make a wall of steel wires around their house and can plant climbers there. It will act like a green wall and provide shade.

[@Circle_of_the_Earth]

I love that idea, it also looks nice!

[@idontknowaboutthat1904]

Thats a really good idea1 Thanks!

[@outlandishbottle9279]

I think that ruins structural integrity though

[@AllSectorsHearThis]

It would be even better if the houses grey water was used to water them

[@theresehopkins1581]

You cannot imagine how happy this news makes me!!! 💗💓💕💖💗 My parents were environmentalists in the 60's... before it was a thing!!! 💚❤💙💜💖💗💚 My parents would be so happy that the world has come around to appreciating 💗 trees!!!!

[@marionicka9053]

I hope this slowes down climate change.If trump doesn't win of course.

[@ab1otic222]

The background music is too loud. It makes it difficult to focus on what's being said.

[@Solar_Max]

Not all trees transpire equally. Some species do a lot more cooling than others. Doing some testing, I found that sycamore tree leaves are cooler than most other tree leaves on a hot summer day.

[@b_uppy]

We need a three prong approach as outlined by Walter Jehne: We need rainwater harvesting strategies in the Midwest and West, and other dry, and flood prone areas. This can be done everywhere, in cities, on hillsides, farms, ranches, parkland, parking lots, roadsides, suburban yards; etc are all opportunities. Using bioswales, eddy basins, raingardens, curbcuts, etc to avoid having to use expensive piped and pumped wateris important. They need to create guidelines for making rainwater catchments because watering plants is expensive, as is likely any permitting requirements to do much rainwater harvesting. They need to de-complicate rainwater harvesting. Brad Lancaster has fantastic books on rainwater harvesting. Trees are important, but we must emphasize biome appropriateness and biodiversity while planting them. Planting diverse, biome-appropriate taprooted-trees higher on hills prevents them from drying, also reducing slide danger, etc. Promoting soil building practices is the third leg. Emphasis on biome-appropriate, diverse plants while avoiding synthetic chemical inputs is key. This would be further enhanced by restoration ag farming practices. This holistic method opts for mob-grazing, polycropping of biome-appropriate, of predominantly perennial, tree, shrubs, and vines (alley-cropping is effective); avoiding bare soil fallow, use of synthetic chemicals, monocropped annuals; overgrazing; CAFOS. Mark Shepard employs and teaches this to repair soil, while growing healthier, abundant food, healthier livestock. This needs teaching and demonstration to implement, and addresses huge portions of land. It's fascinating and well thought out. He is expanding to 5 other farms. Also pushing for more rail instead of roads leaves more permeable surfaces, which supports more trees...

[@rosethorn7923]

I would say not only "biome appropriate" but specifically, where possible, native plants are important. Oaks, which are mentioned specifically in the video, are native to Los Angeles--or at least particular species are, so hopefully those are what they are planning on.

[@hans5130]

Let’s hope they plant them in poor area’s also. This would help California somewhat

[@1st1anarkissed]

Due to topography, the heat island of my city visably splits and diverts severe weather more often than not. I will watch the radar, anticipating a thrilling storm, only to watch it split apart and go around. Over and over, for years. Like a rock in the atmospheric current. Only the largest storms, like floods, can wash over.

[@arthurbrandonnielsen]

Doing more for the environment than any modern "Green New Deal" since the 80s and 90s with the Three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.

[@sunandsage]

There's lots of palm trees there. I don't suppose they do a whole lot to cool things down do they? Just curious.

[@FalconWing1813]

Trees also help during storms by breaking up straight line winds and reducing the wind speed below the canopy. Its crazy how much benefits we get from trees like Oxygen! kinda need that. Yet we cut down trees in our neighbor hood because it makes the pretty green grass not grow that well. Man we need to get our priorities straight. lol

[@malahammer]

Who'd have guessed that.....nature is the saviour.

[@Blaqjaqshellaq]

Another thing they can do is plant grasses and sedges on rooftops!

[@Badgerlust]

People need to plant trees themselves don't just depend on tree planting groups to do it

[@manumalia]

They should do green roofs too.

[@AntAntL]

I traveled to Phoenix, and i stood on a 4 story building. I looked outside and noticed alot if trees. Trees that were planted/growing in the desert. I though of how much water it took to keep those trees alive in the desert. Maybe it's a good idea for LA, but cities like Phoenix or Vegas?

[@FranciscoHernandez-pg7fk]

Trees are good for bringing more water

[@wicked2740]

Why should tree’s be exclusive for LA? 🤔🙄🤦🏽‍♂️

[@hnee2861]

Insurance companies are already increasing the premium significantly simply because there is a tree close by to your home. My friends insurance premium almost doubled because her neighbor across the street has a tree in the front yard and its deemed too close to her home. Also, where is the water coming from? Without watering, we have nothing green. We are in a desert here! We have constant water shortage. I hope people you research the subject in depth before taking side and suggests that planting more tree solves the rising temperature problem. Personally I think better architecture may be a better solution. Changing city planning to allow for higher population density in smaller area, thus reducing miles driven may be more significant?

[@lewismcl1944]

Interesting video, could you link any of your sources. I am interested in reading more. Cheers

[@Circle_of_the_Earth]

Thank you! You can find more information about free trees in LA on this website: www.cityplants.org/

[@NightsMuse]

Larger established cities have some area where businesses are locked in by large parking lots which are no longer filled. Dig them up and put in trees.

[@Badgerlust]

Plant trees in your back and frontyard just go to home depot and buy a 25$ tree

[@pawsformercy1050]

Bakersfield is HORRID i got stuck there with my 2 dogs and AC went out I couldbt find a SHADE TREE TO SAVE OUR LIVES i literally panicked and started to cry after driving all over that dust bowl looking for a single shade tree and NEVER FOUND ONE it almost killed my poor senior boxer mix .It should be ILLEGAL for a town not to have a single shade tree for an entire COUNTY I finall had to drive 30 mi utes out of town to Heart Patk along the Kern River to find some relief

[@williamchamberlain2263]

Also reduces building aircon costs and power usage, same for car aircon

[@cresentiae]

Thank you #SaveSoil

[@starkflam2706]

👍🌳 I’m a bit sad of the little number of contents like this one, i.e. on the necessary greening of cities, also in the US. I live in Belgium. We must all consider this as a major topic. Greetings from Europe.

[@VinciGlassArt]

Really, 90,000 is just a good start. But many more times that would actually have the desired effect.

[@allanegleston4931]

i lived in glendora ca ,25 mi from la. we had trees all over the placee azuza ca pomona and so on. so , yeah we had trees.

[@marcoslara230]

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[@sebastianwrites]

This is very good, and well presented!

[@libertyblueskyes2564]

So smart. Now if we could just change the asphalt black streets or create permeable streets to drive on in order to nourish those trees and create cool temps.

[@someblokecalleddave1]

At the moment in the UK we've had some major road works having just been completed - widening, straightening major improvements (A14). The new wider road meant existing flora and fauna was destroyed and the Govt dept "Highways England" under the Tories (Our 'Republican' party) promised to plant literally 10's of thousands of trees maybe in excess of a 100,000? They did it and driving past it looks like in the future it'll be great. Only thing is someone did a survey on the trees a couple of years later to find that 94% of them were dead. There was no follow-up, the whole thing appears to have been a tick box exercise - promising to plant more than were destroyed in order to get the go ahead to do the road works. There has to be real commitment and the follow up with genuine maintenance.

[@robertwoodpa6463]

Someone did a video on that. It's not how many trees you plant but how many you GROW.

[@jasonreed7522]

Trees are a majority die early type of species, but their are ways to make the ones you are trying to grow have better odds. 94% death rate for cultivated trees is very bad, they could have atleast had a group from your forest service equivalent check in on them and make sure it was going to be successful. Fortunately England is a rainy place so eventually native/local species will colonize the area and fill it in on its own. But the entire point of planting the trees is to kickstart that process. (I wonder if they forgot to reinclude the topsoil after all the earthworks) PS: i was expecting the story to end with the party just not fulfilling their promises the way politicians tend to do.

[@rosethorn7923]

Good video! FYI no one really says it as "Los An-je-lees" except as a joke, it's generally "Los An-juh-luhs" though I suppose the closest to the original Spanish would be "Los An-je-les" and I don't think anyone would bat an eye at that.

[@matthewdean8070]

Grassland adsorb 40% more carbon then forest. 50% of America used to be a giant grassland, courtesy of the American bison, when we wiped out the Buffalo forest grew where none never existed absorbing less carbon the the grassland they replaced. I also don't think this is a bad idea, giving current state things.

[@androidtexts6948]

L A has enough fertilizer on the streets for a forest. Once they get big tree houses for homeless and a proper Tarzan remake!

[@hewi1352]

90.000 trees in a city like LA - come om. That is NOTHING!! The tiny city of Copenhagen is planting 100.000 trees within 2025.

[@TropicalityCat]

You have to factor that LA has a serious water issue though.

[@PeggyAmaya]

5 G works better when trees are cut down. I wonder if that is why the trees all had to be replanted.

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

Water all winter, tell the trees to dig deep

[@Themrine2013]

yup i work as a truck driver in wa in and out of the ports in seattle. i have a IR thermometer. i checked the temp of the ground that was sitting in the sun around noon one day. temp was 130F and this was just high noon. checked in the shade of a truck next to me that was sitting just as long as me where we were at, and the shaded part was only 89F. we were only sitting there for an hour since it was lunch time. but that goes to show we need ground cover for roads and buildings

[@waynethompson1115]

Wierd, LA is in a desert. Why would you plant non native that require larger amounts of water. Theres other desert cultures that make coolers. They look like art work but create cool air, even making ice.

[@meshedgears2794]

I am not so sure this is a good idea, southern California basically imports water so having 90,000 trees sucking water out of the aquifer and sending it into the atmosphere means more water is needed. While On the surface this sounds good, because the trees raise the humidity to make it cool, the water use might be higher than they anticipate. Maybe a study on water use for this evaporative cooling method. If they already know then, great, who doesn't love trees. -MG

[@theresehopkins1581]

Trees create and retain more water than they use.... the natural world knows how to take care of itself and us... the aquifer is not "free".... it should not be used by societies... it is a finite amount of water that takes decades and decades to replace.... it needs to be left alone.... if it's not there, sink holes will form.... Cooling the neighborhoods and cleaning the air saves lives and money.... "Going Green" will not only save our lives, but enhance the quality of our lives..... Water mismanagement is what's been causing droughts.... Nature, after all, is the ultimate expert at water management..... it's been doing it for hundreds of millions of years... 😊

[@gc.96]

As along as the trees are native that shouldnt be a problem. It's only a problem if you plant non native trees.

[@meshedgears2794]

@@gc.96 Why? Native or not, transpiration happens to both. -MG

[@gc.96]

@@meshedgears2794 native trees are adapted to the dry climate of LA so they wont use more water than the environment cant support

[@meshedgears2794]

@@gc.96 That's funny, especially sense the reason given for the planting is to alter the environment. Personally I like trees, but bottom line is they are adding biological misters and it takes water. Who ever does the planting should be aware of the water use impact. -MG

[@funkystuf23]

So annoying everyone making videos with the same stock photos and footage, no wonder real issues don’t get the views

[@micaeloliveira2727]

90 000 trees 🎄🦌🎄😅😅😅😅😅😅😅 2000 house fourniture 😅😅😅

[@oldbatwit5102]

Video spoiled by a lazy, messy montage of stock footage. The 'green' message was also marred by film of people wasting water, even bottled water, by pouring or spraying it on their heads, and trees being planted wrongly. Thoroughly lazy journalism. Try harder.

[@helpAmerica1]

More trees more fires.

[@photomaker4502]

This is a bad idea for the LA area that’s already known for bad air quality. Like vehicles and power plants, trees emit airborne chemicals called volatile organic compounds which in the presence of sunlight react with nitrogen oxides in vehicles fumes to form ozone, one of the components in smog that makes it a health threat. VOC’s come out of tailpipes and smokestacks as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels; the trees emit them in part to repel insects and to attract pollinators. Species such as birch, tulip and linden release very low levels of VOCs, but others such as black gum, poplar, oak and willow produce a lot, leading to ozone levels that can be eight times higher than those linked to the low-impact trees.

[@russpickles6194]

In the poor areas? But any start is good

[@clairromandia4035]

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[@number62]

As the social structure of the city crumbles. Nice shade for the homeless junkies though.

[@aussieausdeutschland4245]

Not everyone that is homeless is a Junky. But arseholes like you that make assumptions like THAT are fucking BIGOTS. I hope you lose everything and find out how it feels to be without a job no home no possessions and NO HOPE.