While I'm on the Topic of Trees

Here's another from Slate on the best trees to plant that soak up the most CO2. Maybe I should run this down the street to the folks that just chopped down that 100-year old oak on Reitten.

Or give it to whoever has the contract to "prune," I use that word loosely, the Safeway cherry trees down on Willis Street. Gads, they aren't pruning those trees, but surely killing them as they trim off the branches right to the trunk. I finally went in and complained to the clerk, who agreed with me and said she'd pass it on to the manager.

Probably the strangest complaint they got that night. But I hope she passed on my thoughts. I wince every time I see those trees.