Rain Gardens~Urban Forest, Show 2, Recreating Nature Platform - Jun 16, 2021 - The EmeraldPlanet TV©

Full Title: "Rain Gardens, Bayscaping, & Urban Forests Healing the Planet", The EmeraldPlanet TV© Show '2': Dr. Samuel Lee Hancock, CM, President & Executive Director, EmeraldPlanet International Foundation© and Executive Producer and Host, The EmeraldPlanet TV©, Theme: “Wonderful Platform for Recreating Nature" The EmeraldPlanet International Foundation© presents education and hands-on experiences about innovative and proven "best practices" to reverse climate change to foster world peace. The EmeraldPlanet© fosters a sustainable, resilient, and innovative future for Mother Earth and all her beings. We envision Spaceship Earth to be in harmony while supporting equitable, diverse, and inclusive global development. A Rain Garden is a landscaped area that is strategically placed and connected to a downspout to collect and absorb stormwater from your rooftop. Directing the downspout to the rain garden allows stormwater to flow away from your home’s foundation and holds it in the garden area until it can naturally absorb into the ground. The rain garden dips slightly into the ground and has soil that is modified to increase infiltration. In addition to improving drainage, rain gardens also help keep polluted stormwater out of local streams while acting as atmospheric carbon sumps. Rain gardens are designed to be site-specific. These can be customized to meet a properties characteristics, including annual rainfall, recorded 50 - 100 year flooding incidents, ambient carbon levels, topography, soils, drainage patterns, and sun exposure. Rain Garden Video Info: https://youtu.be/S20NbRHaWfQ BayScaping is landscaping that replaces grass with plants native to the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Native plants have deeper root systems that absorb more stormwater, reduce erosion, increase infiltration, and are more drought tolerant than turf grass or ornamental species. BayScaping also provides beneficial habitat for pollinators like butterflies and honey bees. BayScaping is practical nearly anywhere in your yard, but is preferred on slopes or in eroded areas where dirt, bare soil, and/or invasive plants could be replaced by native plants. BayScaping is designed to individual site characteristics, factoring in These can be customized to meet a properties characteristics, including annual rainfall, recorded 50 - 100 year flooding incidents, ambient carbon levels, topography, soils, drainage patterns, and sun exposure. Urban Forests, i.e., urban tree canopies (UTC) provide many practical benefits, such as: improvement of air quality, moderation of temperature, filtration and reduction of storm water runoff, increased property value, reduction of crime, improved visual aesthetics, and mitigation of health problems. Inadequate tree cover disproportionately impacts communities of color and socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Tree equity initiatives are environmental justice initiatives. It is widely accepted that trees are essential for well-being and for the livability of cities. As the earth's climate systems change, the frequency and duration of heat waves consistently increased during the last 100+ years and are expected to further intensify (Temple, 2020). Local governments are on the front line of efforts to address rising temperatures and the public health burdens they impose. A critical method to build climate resiliency is to plant trees, as their shade creates cooling conditions among other benefits. As such, many local governments have invested millions of dollars to plant and maintain Urban Tree Canopies (UTC; Yurk, 2020).