The Five Worst Things for Your Carbon Footprint If you are, like me, a human living on planet earth in 2022, your carbon footprint is probably pretty massive. Everything we do from mineral extraction to manufacturing and even agriculture has a net positive impact on total atmospheric carbon. The world’s forests can offset some of […]
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At Carroll Property Services, we plant lots of Ontario native plants for our clients. One of our biggest concerns is how the plants will fare after we have left the job site. This is why we do everything in our power to ensure that our plants thrive in their new homes. Watering schedules are a
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At Carroll Property Services, we continue to root for Tree Planting for Climate Sustainabilitythrough our Tree planting services. It is now crucial than ever to manage Trees withsustainability in mind. In 2021, our goal is to plant more than 1000 trees to add to our efforts to achieve Today, we write on the importance of
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The Benefits of Wildlife Ponds According to aquaculture scientist Greg Lutz, a well managed pond can increase property values from 5% to 15%. Pond building is one of the best things we can do for the environment (if done properly). Ponds provide the 3 basic necessities for life: food, shelter, and water. All kinds of
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Last Sunday I was meeting a potential client for the first time and he taught me something valuable that I hadn’t been able to put into words before. Let’s call him Bob for now because I haven’t asked if I could use him in my story yet. Anyways, Bob was showing me his beautiful garden.
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Profitable Habitat Conservation And Forest Management Whether you own hundreds of acres of farmland, a small backyard, or even just a apartment building balcony, you can reduce your carbon footprint by using that space to grow plants. Plants are extremely effective at removing carbon from the atmosphere, but it isn’t always obvious how they can
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Evergreen Trees An evergreen is a tree that keeps it’s foliage year-round. This gives evergreens a huge advantage over deciduous trees because they can harvest sunlight all year. Warm season trees like palm trees are evergreens but we don’t get those in Canada. In Ontario, all of our native evergreen trees are conifers (trees with
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We don’t just plant trees, we create food forests to sequester carbon, and provide resources for the forest manager. Benefits of Reforesting Your Land – Restore Soil – Sequester Carbon – Produce Food for Your Family – Better Water Retention in Case of Drought – Invest in Your Future with Lumber & Sap Trees To
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The Climate Change Crisis Humanity is facing a crisis never seen before in the history of the earth: climate change due to rising levels of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. But where are all those excess greenhouse gases coming from? The answer is (mostly) the burning of fossil fuels. While nothing is truly permanent, carbon
The lawn care industry has a bad habit of selling a well-maintained lawn as an effective way to remove carbon from the atmosphere. In a report requested by the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (an institute that directly benefits from the lawn care industry) it is stated that an acre of turf grass can sequester 920lb
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