We must harness their energy and clarity through schools, 4H, Boy and Girl Scouts to a habit of putting back what you take year by year. But more important is re-education to fresh hope. There's lots of awareness of our dire ecological predicaments, but few effective ideas to improve on our fate. Youth need a positive vision with a practical plan for action. It's their future, and they have to do the work to realize it.
Planting trees is a simple, inexpensive way to assure Earth's health and future generations.
His simple daily ritual transformed a dry, barren land into moist, fertile forest with creeks and wildlife. Johnny Appleseed portrays another tree planting hero who made land habitable and productive. National Champions are the largest, oldest trees of their variety in America. Like Olympic athletes, they're the best of the best.