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Health Benefits of Bernheim

A tree produces 260 lbs of oxygen per year. Bernheim’s rough estimate is that we have 6.63 million trees in our forest.
Source: National Institutes of Health:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4025002/?report=reader
Source: WebMD
Bernheim sequesters approximately 465 million lbs of carbon each year. A vehicle emits approximately 10,000 lbs of carbon in a year.
Source: Bernheim
Source: National Institutes for Health: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4483711/?report=reader
Source: Bernheim
Source: Hüttenmoser M. Children and their living surroundings: Empirical investigation into the significance of living surroundings for the everyday life and development of children. Child. Environ. 1995;12:403–413.

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