» Checking Up on Villaraigosa's Million Trees
“More than two years into his term, Villaraigosa is roughly one-tenth of the way toward his tree-planting goal. Of the roughly 110,000 he lists as planted, more than half—51%—were given away to the public.”I didn’t know this:In the effort to plant 1 million trees, the city is staging giveaways where citizens can take saplings home to plant. That sounds nice,but is it cheating? After all, you have to take into account the people who don’t end up planting the trees. For example, the 26-year-old Koreatown resident who took a tree home to his apartment—where there’s apparently no place to plant it—and complained, “I don’t think the environment is very conducive to it.”
