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<div><font face="Verdana">"While carbon stocks in US forests have
continually expanded since the 1940s, the expansion has shown signs of
contraction.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">"The most recent forecast
<<https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_gtr272.pdf>> of the
nation's forest future suggests that, in aggregate, forests will
transition from being a net carbon sink to a significant source of
emissions by 2030."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana">"The first driver of carbon sink loss
-- large-scale disturbance events such as megafires and insect
infestations in the West -- received ample media coverage due to their
shock value. Even so, the press has largely missed the real
story about the conclusive links science has made between these events
and climate change."</font></div>
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<div>Excerpted from: <font face="Geneva"> Ecosystem
Marketplace 21 January 2017</font></div>
<div><font face="Cambria"><b>How US Land Owners Can Tap Carbon Markets
In Trump Era</b></font></div>
<div>Brian Kittler</div>
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>http://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/articles/how-us-land-owners-can-<span
></span>tap-carbon-markets-in-trump-era/</u></font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">"Real estate
website Trulia.com recently reported that slightly more than half of
Americans say that 1,400 to 2,600 square feet would be their ideal
home size. According to the NAHB, nine of 10 builders are planning or
constructing smaller homes than in the past.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">In 2010, the
average new home size dropped to 2,377 square feet and by 2015, the
average newly built home is predicted to measure just 2,140 square
feet. Even in more affluent areas, builders are beginning to construct
model homes that are one-third smaller than what they were building
just a few years ago.</font><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">" 'Small is
beautiful' is back in vogue," remarks Andrew Gates, a Sotheby's
International Realty real estate broker in Salisbury, Connecticut.
'The simplicity aesthetic is more prevalent after what we've been
through the past few years.'"</font></div>
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>http://www.naturalawakeningsmag.com/Natural-Awakenings/November-2012<span
></span>/House-Happiness/</font></div>
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<div><font face="Verdana" size="-1" color="#000000">" Š. the
earth's atmosphere is so thoroughly mixed and so rapidly recycled
through the biosphere that the next breath you inhale will contain
atoms exhaled by Jesus at Gethsemane and Adolf Hitler at
Munich."<br>
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Preston Cloud and Aharon Gibor. "The Oxygen Cycle."<br>
Scientific American, September 1970</font><br>
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