In places contending with aridity; soil depletion; inadequate food, jobs, and energy; and climate stressors, planting trees can improve many of these problems at once. This intercontinental partnership aims to plant trees appropriate for marginal areas in Uganda where they can simultaneously hold on to water and carbon, improve the soil, and create jobs harvesting food crops and biofuels. This project will gather data on the beneficial effects of large-scale plantings and lay the groundwork for long-term funding from global organizations. It is designed to be scalable and replicable in other locations.
Participants
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Paul Anastas
Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment
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Vasilis Vasiliou
Department Chair and Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology (Environmental Health Sciences) and of Ophthalmology and Visual Science and of Environment
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Hanno Erythropel
Research Scientist for the Center for Green Chemistry & Green Engineering at Yale
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Sohrab Ismail-Beigi
Strathcona Professor of Applied Physics & Materials Science
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Tassos C. Kyriakides
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
