
A butterfly lands on a butterfly weed plant at The Bower on June 20, 2023.
Jeremy Long / WITF
A butterfly lands on a butterfly weed plant at The Bower on June 20, 2023.
Jeremy Long / WITF
Jeremy Long / WITF
A butterfly lands on a butterfly weed plant at The Bower on June 20, 2023.
Agriculture and other land use are responsible for between 25-30% of global emissions.
You can chip away at that by growing some of your own food or planting flowers, shrubs, and trees. One tree can absorb thousands of pounds of carbon over its lifetime.
Native plants also provide important habitat for insects and birds that may be threatened by climate change.
How to start a vegetable garden
Learn more about native plants
Find a local native plant group
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StateImpact Pennsylvania is a collaboration among WITF, WHYY, and the Allegheny Front. Reporters Reid Frazier, Rachel McDevitt and Susan PhillipsĀ cover the commonwealth’s energy economy. Read their reports on this site, and hear them on public radio stations across Pennsylvania.
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