Shovels, Baskets, and a New Perspective… In Search of “Lost” Oxygen and Tomatoes.

Objective: To highlight the need for urban agriculture, permaculture, and fruit, nut, and native trees. To inform citizens of the links between fossil fuel, transportation, air pollution, climate change, and our health. To seriously consider combating pollution (hence climate change) by increasing oxygen, and reducing carbon dioxide, by planting trees and bushes in as many locations as possible (locations to be identified during the walk).Due to the politico-economic situation threatening the arrival of food stuffs, we also need to ‘get going’ with assuring food security and self sufficiency by, for example, repurposing roof tops and the enormous lawns that are highly polluting through their maintenance (gasoline mowers and trimmers) and have no function. To Encouraging citizens to reclaim their living environment. Did you know? A single adult tree provides the oxygen necessary for two adults for 24 hours. A 4-cylinder car, driving at 90 km/h for one hour, consumes the oxygen necessary for one adult for an entire month! And produces That we are in competition with gasoline vehicles for the oxygen essential to life. Climate change is largely linked to the accumulation of carbon dioxide. Most of this gas comes from transportation. The oil crisis puts the delivery of our food at risk. The solution is under our feet: We must radically increase tree planting and multiply vegetable gardens. This will reduce carbon dioxide (harmful to our health and a driver of climate change), while ensuring much more oxygen and assuring food security. How and where? A scavenger hunt! Come see the urban landscape with new eyes and find the future spaces for the production of oxygen and food in our neighbourhoods. Identify, throughout the walk, the strategic locations where these solutions can be implemented. Imagine these places reclaimed and transformed into productive, healthy living environments rich in biodiversity.