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NYT > Home & Garden Updated : Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:34:01 GMT Currents | Tools: Count the Reasons to Hug a Tree It?s not a mystery that trees are good for the environment, and the Forest Service?s Center for Urban Forest Research has a software program to compute that benefit. The Tree Carbon Calculator uses data like a tree?s age and location to see how much carbon dioxide it captures from the atmosphere and how much its shade reduces the energy needed for cooling. The program, equipped for California but to be updated nationwide by summer, was created to guide cities, utilities and schools that want to plant trees, said Greg McPherson, the center?s director. But homeowners can use it, too. He entered data about the London plane tree outside his office in Davis, Calif., and learned that each year it captures 113 pounds of carbon and saves his building 162 kilowatt-hours in energy, ?relatively good numbers.? The calculator can be downloaded at www.fs.fed.us/psw. To understand your results, comparative data is at www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications under the first ?Publication List.? STEVEN KURUTZ. Publ.Date : Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:24:47 GMT Living Together: Beloved Pets Everlasting? Living with the clones of a dead dog has its surprises. The DNA may be the same but the behavior is another story. Publ.Date : Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:56:06 GMT Currents | Goods: The Hand Points the Way The furniture maker Thos. Moser has come out with a lounge chair and matching ottoman that are as much sculpture as seating. Publ.Date : Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:23:53 GMT Add RSS Feeds To My Web Pages Increase Search Engine Traffic

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