{"id":87513,"date":"2018-11-19T09:31:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T19:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=87513"},"modified":"2020-01-16T16:07:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T02:07:59","slug":"uh-manoa-plants-1000-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/19\/uh-manoa-plants-1000-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa leads project to plant 1,000 trees in a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_36295\"  width=\"620\" height=\"349\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ovXDNhgEJI?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Â鶹´«Ã½M\u0101noa leads project to plant 1,000 trees in a day\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soc.hawaii.edu\/mora\/Carbon%20Neutrality%20Project\">The Carbon Neutrality Challenge<\/a>, a joint project of the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> and numerous organizations, aims to test the feasibility of restoring local ecosystems to offset all of the state&#8217;s carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The group held its first proof-of-concept event on November 17 at Ala Mahamoe Cultural Garden and Forest near Tripler Hospital. At the event, six teams of volunteers from <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa and various student groups, local organizations and businesses joined together in friendly competition to plant a record-setting 1,000 trees in one day. At the end of the day&#8217;s competition, teams were ranked according to the number of trees planted, with rankings available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gocarbonneutral.org\/\">http:\/\/www.gocarbonneutral.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the event was to demonstrate the state&#8217;s ability to scale up restoration, and plant trees by the number needed to position <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> as the first place in the world to fully offset its carbon emissions via ecosystem restoration.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The solution to climate change is staring at us. It is as simple as planting sufficient trees to offset one&#8217;s emissions,&rdquo; said <a href=\"https:\/\/geography.manoa.hawaii.edu\/camilo-mora\/\">Camilo Mora<\/a>, associate professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/geography.manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">geography<\/a> in <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/socialsciences.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Social Sciences<\/a> and lead investigator in the project.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The math is simple. The average carbon footprint of a person in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> is estimated at ~12 tonnes of <abbr title=\"carbon dioxide\">CO2<\/abbr> each year. It will take 12 milo trees just below five years to remove all of that carbon. Or you can try three koas, or ~20 <span aria-label=\"ohia\">&#699;&#332;hi&#699;a<\/span>s, or a diversity of other native trees that can do the job for you. We just need to go and put those trees in the ground,&rdquo; added Asryelle Mora Rollo, a 6th grader and one of the project&#8217;s members.<\/p>\n<p>While it may look daunting to restore all Hawaiian ecosystems in order to store the amount of carbon necessary to make the state carbon neutral, the group believes <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> has the resources and manpower to do this \u2013 it just needs to put these parts together.<\/p>\n<p>The group notes that, with a million people in the state, if each person plants just one tree, <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> can easily have a million trees in the ground within a week. Scalability is certainly possible and, if successful, would create an environmental balance between nature and humans. The group hopes that the one-day planting event will inspire others to take on the challenge of restoring <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s ecosystems by hosting similar competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The tree-planting pilot event is part of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa&#8217;s Carbon Neutrality Challenge, an initiative that aims to provide a mechanism for people to pay their ecological debt to Earth. It is based on the premise that climate change can be solved if individuals calculate how much <abbr>CO2<\/abbr> they generate, estimate the number of trees needed to sequester those emissions and plant the required number of trees.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Lisa Shirota<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_87521\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87521\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/manoa-geography-tree-planting.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers digging up dirt to plant trees\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/manoa-geography-tree-planting.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/manoa-geography-tree-planting-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-87521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers join together to plant a record-setting 1,000 trees in one day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first proof-of-concept event was held at Ala Mahamoe Cultural Garden and Forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[301,38,1314,73,9,56],"class_list":["post-87513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-geography","tag-manoa-sustainability","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87513"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109608,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87513\/revisions\/109608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}