1.0 link 84119 <![CDATA[What One Tree Can Do For ADD, Crime And Stress]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/majora-carter/what-one-tree-can-do-for-_b_84119.html If a tree grows in a city and nobody is there to assess its ancillary benefits to society, is it worth anything?

We can all agree that green, living things like trees, wet lands, green spaces, even flowers, help deal with costly problems like cleaning the air, reducing urban heat island effect, reducing storm-water runoff...and besides, they're pretty!

What folks might not know is that studies from the University of Illinois Landscape and Human Health Laboratory document the positive effects they...

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