Idle soldiers were usually put to use maintaining roads, building parks, planting trees, landscaping and even collecting trash.
After that, you start doing landscaping, basically planting trees, which is important to the air quality.
So planting trees in these climates actually has the net effect of warming the Earth's surface.
Mr Buzek likes to think of his government as planting trees for the future.
They should know that the only place where planting trees prevents global warming is in the tropics.
Biswajit Banerjee, the divisional forest officer, admits that the rocky soil is of little use for planting trees.
Miami, for example, has found that planting trees can help reduce air conditioning bills, for example, in summer months.
Instead of spending stimulus money on new dams, he asks, why not put people to work planting trees instead?
Remedial measures include planting trees and roofing buildings with reflective tiles, but the issue is one few cities have addressed.
They are growing different crops, planting trees, harvesting rainwater and growing fodder for livestock to minimize the impacts of climate change.
White Rose Forest - a volunteer-led initiative set up to improve the West Yorkshire landscape by planting trees - has expanded into North Yorkshire.
Scores of people were armed on a cold spring day with shovels, not guns, and were busy planting trees as part of a forestation campaign.
At the Sabah Al-Ahmad nature reserve, environmental remediation has involved planting trees and building ponds to bring back wildlife, resulting in a flourishing desert ecosystem.
These included rewards for having only one child and planting trees.
This 2009 YouTube photo compilation shows Syria's first lady helping old people and sick children, sitting in classrooms, planting trees, waving and smiling alongside her husband.
By planting trees and restoring neglected woods and hedges, it allowed the farmers to have hardier breeds of sheep which are better suited to graze upland areas.
As well as planting trees and shrubs, the group has also created numerous ponds over the years, according to the Woodland Trust and Coed Cymru which have produced the report.
Atlanta's business leaders have recognized that improving the quality of life, whether by reducing drive time, planting trees or cleaning up the polluted Chattahoochee River, is in their self-interest, he said.
So instead of just coming up with a regulation that prohibited these industries, what they came up with was, working with farmers and conservationists, planting trees along the rivers that cooled the waters so that the salmon were unaffected.
For over 20 years now, the Foundation has provided thousands of grants to schools and environmental organizations that promote hands-on environmental education such as gardens in schools, recycling programs, restoring wetlands, planting trees, and testing and monitoring water quality.
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The project includes planting more trees, restoring wetlands, building natural dams in streams and reducing water run-off from fields.
They start planting native trees with their teacher on the school property.
Sustaining existing forest cover, planting new trees and better management of land use is also suggested as a means to slow global warming.
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Since 2007 volunteers have been planting new trees to "fill the gap" and link about 12 miles of woodland from Newton Stewart to Glentrool.
Authorities gave 20th Century Fox permission to landscape Maya Bay, on Phi Phi Island by uprooting vegetation, levelling it and planting palm trees, which were removed after filming 12 months ago.
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