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Presentation on ‘The Power of Trees’ Thursday Evening, May 9 at Darien Library

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Juliet Cain and Meaghan Hetherington of the Darien Nature Center will talk about the “Power of Trees,” on Thursday evening, May 9, at Darien Library, discussing how much trees contribute to our lives, including how they help the environment and provide mental health benefits. — an announcement from Darien Library

Do you know how much trees contribute to your daily life? Any elementary student can tell you that through a chemical reaction known as photosynthesis trees produce and release oxygen, an essential element for all living things. However, trees do much more than produce oxygen and beautify our landscapes. They also remove tons of climate-warming carbon dioxide and other harmful gases from the air we breathe, they cool the earth’s air and surface temperatures, and they provide food and habitats for thousands of animal species and other wildlife.

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Presentation on the Importance of Trees for Our Mental Health, Our Planet and More

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Darien Library, along with Darien Nature Center and Darien Land Trust welcome Juliet Cain and Meaghan Hetherington for an important discussion on the “Power of Trees.” — an announcement from Darien Library

Do you know how much trees contribute to your daily life? Any elementary student can tell you that through a chemical reaction known as photosynthesis trees produce and release oxygen, an essential element for all living things. However, trees do much more than produce oxygen and beautify our landscapes. They also remove tons of climate-warming carbon dioxide and other harmful gases from the air we breathe, they cool the earth’s air and surface temperatures, and they provide food and habitats for thousands of animal species and other wildlife.

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Friends of Animals President: ‘Trees are the Planet’s Lungs’ With Multiple Benefits for the Environment

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To the editor:

I’m unnerved when I hear that morbid sound of trees being dismembered, limb by limb until they’re pulverized into saw dust. It’s a racket outside my office window in Darien this morning. In the backyard of a home that abuts our parking lot, I can see a red band tied around the trunk of the huge tree, which a tree cutter in a cherry picker kills, branch by branch, without ceremony. I don’t know why people so easily kill trees, but it’s done with reckless abandon, and watching each limb cut and remain suspended in the air for a while incenses me. Last weekend, I heard the same jarring, tree-killing sound of a chainsaw in a neighbor’s yard on McKinley Street in Rowayton, and the weekend earlier, it interrupted a visit to a friend’s home in Hilton Head, South Carolina.