Chestnut Carbon gets $160M to turn old farms into forests
The company buys marginal and degraded farmland, plants them with native trees, and harvests the resulting carbon credits.
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Why Are Oft-Repeated Jokes or Stories Sometimes Called “Old Chestnuts”?
The connection between chestnuts and old stories is far more recent ... from the thick boughs of a cork-tree— PABLO: A chestnut, captain, a chestnut! … Captain, this is the twenty-seventh ...
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The Search for Blight Resistance-enhancing Genes
These are exciting times for American chestnut restoration but we still have more to do. As the old Chinese proverb goes, "One Generation Plants the Tree, the Next Generation Enjoys the Shade." Please ...
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Descendent of tree that once stood outside Anne Frank House now grows in Pittsburgh
The original tree Frank wrote about was one of the oldest chestnut trees in Amsterdam — an estimated 170 years old, according to Anne Frank Center USA’s website. In 2005, the Frank tree was ...
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The American Chestnut Project
Several decades later, we are seeking government approval to begin distributing the first blight-tolerant transgenic American chestnut. These trees were produced by inserting a gene called oxalate ...
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Sapling from Anne Frank’s chestnut tree takes root at Raritan Valley Community College
More: Margit Feldman, 90-year-old Holocaust survivor ... Frank House in Amsterdam’s efforts to preserve the original chestnut tree by gathering and germinating chestnuts and donating the ...
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That Old Chestnut
FIGR Architecture Studio has developed That Old Chestnut in Cremorne, Australia. Located amongst the hubbub of delivery trucks, bicycles, and a never-ending procession of vehicle traffic ...
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That old chestnut!
You can buy chestnuts through some supermarkets, specialty stores and greengrocers and, because there are more chestnut trees out there than you realise, you may also be able to find some at farm ...