Mitengo Yathanzi, Ana Athanzi!

Pa October 6, 2012, Canopy, gulu lopanda phindu, ndi membala wa California ReLeaf Network, odzipereka kubzala mitengo ya madera athanzi, adzasonkhanitsa pamodzi magulu odzipereka amakampani ndi ammudzi kuti abzale 120 mithunzi ndi mitengo ya zipatso. Mogwirizana ndi Microsoft Corp., Odwalla Plant-A-Tree, Cal Fire's Urban and Community Forestry Program, ndi maziko angapo, Canopy ithandiza kupanga masukulu athanzi, obiriwira, komanso oitanira ana opitilira 500 ku Brentwood Academy ndi 350 ku Ronald. McNair Academy ku East Palo Alto.

 

Ogwira ntchito mongodzipereka opitilira 100 amakampani komanso amdera akuyembekezeredwa kuti athandize nawo ntchito yobzala mitengo yamasiku onse. Kubzala uku kudzathandizira kupititsa patsogolo cholinga cha Canopy "Mitengo Yathanzi, Ana Athanzi!" kanthu.

 

"Cholinga cha ndondomekoyi ndi kubzala mitengo 1,000 ya ana pofika chaka cha 2015 ndikuyamba kutseka 'mpata wobiriwira' pakati pa anthu olemera ndi ovutika," adatero Catherine Martineau, mkulu wa bungwe la Canopy.

 

Chifukwa cha khama la Canopy, ophunzira 850 a pulayimale ndi pulayimale ku Brentwood Academy ndi Ronald McNair Academy apindula ndi mapindu angapo achindunji ndi osalunjika operekedwa ndi mitengo. Ubwino wachindunji ndi monga mpweya wabwino ndi madzi, kutetezedwa ku kuwala koopsa kwa UV ndi zotsatira zabwino zamaganizidwe zomwe zimayenderana ndi kuyandikira kwa chilengedwe. Ubwino wosalunjika umaphatikizapo kukhala ndi moyo wokangalika wokhudzana ndi kuchuluka kwa ntchito zakunja, zomwe zimathandiza kupewa kunenepa kwambiri kwaubwana ndi matenda a shuga aubwana.

 

Mitundu yamitengo yamithunzi yomwe ibzalidwe ndi Forest Green Oak, Cork Oak, Valley Oak, Southern Live Oak, Bosque Elm, ndi Silver Linden, yomwe ili yonse yopirira chilala komanso yogwirizana ndi nyengo ya dera lino. Mitundu ya mitengo yazipatso iphatikiza ma avocado, sapote, ndi malalanje osiyanasiyana.

 

Bosque Elms idzabzalidwa pogwiritsa ntchito 'DriWater' njira yatsopano yothirira yomwe ingagwiritsidwe ntchito m'malo mwa ulimi wothirira wamba kuti musunge madzi ndikupulumutsa ndalama zoyika.

 

Masana, pakati pa m'mawa ndi madzulo kubzala masinthidwe, odzipereka adzasonkhana kutsogolo kwa Brentwood Academy kuti abzala mitengo yamwambo ndi chithunzi chamagulu ndi akuluakulu osankhidwa, obzala obzala ndi oimira Ravenswood School District.

 

Mndandanda wathunthu wa othandizira a 2012 a Canopy's Healthy Trees, Healthy Kids! zoyambira: Cal Fire Urban and Community Forestry, Microsoft, Odwalla Plant-A-Tree, Morgan Family Foundation, Sand Hill Foundation, The Dean Witter Foundation, Peery Foundation, Gordon ndi Betty Moore Foundation, Patagonia, Palo Alto Community Foundation, David & Lucile Packard Foundation, Alliance for Community Trees, Change Happens Foundation, Palo Alto Weekly Holiday Fund, California ReLeaf, Mwezi wa National NeighborWoods.