Lesson 3 Nature & Us
Letters to Nature
Dear Tree, Whenever I walk ____ you, your beautiful leaves bring a smile to my face.
Whenever I stop in front of you and take a ____ breath of fresh air, I appreciate the oxygen that you produce.
Without ____ and all your friends, we humans wouldn’t be able to get enough oxygen.
By the way, I noticed that a ____ of birds has made a nest in your branches.
____ so kind of you to provide them with a home.
I hope that more people realize ____ important you and all the other trees are to the environment. Have a nice day!
Believe it or not, trees in Melbourne, ____ receive emails like this all the time.
How is it ____ that trees have email addresses?
And why are people ____ them messages?
The story behind these emails begins with Melbourne’s Urban Forest Strategy plan, a response to ____ millennium drought.
This drought lasted from the late 1990s to ____.
By the time it ended, 40 percent of the city’s 77,000 trees were in a ____ of declining health.
Furthermore, the ____ number of trees was decreasing.
As a result,
As a ____, the amount of shade provided by trees within the city, also known as canopy cover, decreased.
The loss of canopy cover is a major threat to urban environments because it raises ____.
Higher temperatures in cities can be dangerous for residents, as they ____ the risk of heat exhaustion.
They also lead to a rise in the ____ of air-conditioning.
This ____ up climate change by increasing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.
Something ____ to be done to deal with the loss of Melbourne’s trees.
In 2012, the city government announced its Urban Forest ____ plan.
It set the ambitious goal of planting more than 3,000 trees every year for the ____ twenty years.
The ____ also involved the creation of an online map called the Urban Forest Visual.
This interactive map shows the location of every single tree in the city’s parks and along its ____.
It ____ colors and symbols to indicate each tree’s age and genus.
Also, users can ____ on a tree to find out its species and even send it an email.
At first, the “____ this tree” function had a specific purpose.
It was designed to allow people to easily inform ____ workers about trees that were damaged or in poor health.
After the map was posted online,
____ the map was posted online, something unexpected happened.
The trees started receiving thousands of emails, but many of them were not reports about damage or ____ health.
Instead, they were love ____, poems, greetings, and messages expressing appreciation for the trees.
One person ____, “I love the way the light shines on your leaves and how your branches hang so low.
It is almost like ____ are trying to hug me.”
The tree mail phenomenon quickly spread, and ____ all over the world started sending messages.
A message that was sent all the way from Russia ____,
“When I read about this wonderful project, I was inspired to ____ to you, even though I live thousands of miles away.
Although we are separated by a great distance, we share the ____ planet and the same environment.
Perhaps ____ day we will meet. Until then, I hope you can stay healthy and strong.”
The global popularity of the tree mail phenomenon reminds us that we are all connected to ____, and we are all involved in building a more sustainable world.
Without collective action from ____ across the globe, we would have little hope of saving our planet for future generations.
Locally, the tree mail phenomenon has inspired many Melbourne residents to offer their own ideas about building an environmentally friendly ____ environment.
Some have even volunteered to measure trees and monitor animals for nature programs in the ____.
Meanwhile, the Urban Forest Strategy’s tree planting ____ has remained on track, and canopy cover is predicted to increase from 23 percent in 2012 to 40 percent by the year 2040.
____ urban forest strategy will help keep the city cool.
It will also allow residents to interact with nature and engage in outdoor activities ____ day.
As a ____, residents will be happier and healthier as they move toward a greener future.
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