Gauging Wealth With Trees

Monday, 10 September 2012 | by Pat's Picks

How do you judge a community’s wealth? Look at the trees, says the San Jose Mercury News. A pair of photos taken from space shows a shocking tree disparity in two adjacent California communities. In the top photo, you can see that the low-income neighborhood of West Oakland is tree-starved. The wealthy enclave of Piedmont, by comparison, is lush and green.

SOURCE: San Jose Mercury News