Conserving Energy with Landscaping
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-712/426-712.html
Well-placed plantings can significantly temper the microclimate around a home, resulting in a more comfortable environment and big savings in heating and cooling costs over time.
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Identified Benefits of Community Trees and Forests
http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/service/library/index.php3?docID=124
Community trees and forests are valuable. To the 75% of the United States population that now live in urban and suburban areas, trees provide many goods and services. Values are realized by the people that own the trees, by people nearby, and by society i…
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Landscape Plantings for Energy Savings
http://muextension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/hort/g06910.htm
The high cost of home heating and air conditioning prompts efforts to reduce home energy consumption. Although outdoor landscape plants are pleasing in themselves, they can also play a large part in controlling energy use indoors.
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The Economic Value of Open Space
http://www.lincolninst.edu/main.html
While much has been written about the economic value of the environment in general and of open space in particular, the literature is segregated by discipline or methodology. It is therefore difficult to assess the economic value of open space comprehensively. It is even more difficult to apply what is known in a public policy context, where open space holds significant non-monetary value.
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The Value of Landscaping
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-721/426-721.html
The Value of Landscaping
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Urban Forest Values: Economic Benefits of Trees in Cities
http://www.cfr.washington.edu/Research/fact_sheets/29-UrbEconBen.pdf
Many important decisions in American cities are based on careful cost and benefit analysis of options. The values of trees and plants in our urban centers are often overlooked. Urban forests are a significant and increasingly valuable asset of the urban environment. Scientists have measured the tremendous returns that trees provide for people in cities.
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