In 2020, Mayor Regina Romero announced a plan to plant a million trees in Tucson to cool a heating city. She admitted it will be expensive but said she hopes to offset the cost through public-private partnerships with nonprofits and local businesses. Recent letters to the editor speaking out against expanding the zoo that would reduce valuable green space urge the city to instead increase our green spaces, including planting urban forests, as we are exposed to increasing heat and drought due to climate change .
A Tucson Memorial Forest would make a wonderful gift for the community and would bring tremendous returns. A memorial forest offers families who choose to cremate a beautiful, private, and permanently protected place to return their ashes to the earth. Instead of tombstones, ashes are buried in the base of beautiful trees. “Certainly the costs for the funeral and a climate-friendly tree in memory of a loved one would bear the associated costs and ultimately create oases of shade in a heating world.
Disclaimer: As filed with the Arizona Daily Star.
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