Home construction in the suburbs often doesn't spare any greenery - should we adopt a different approach?

Also, an interesting book highlights a forgotten pro-Confederacy chapter in Canadian history.

A resident of midwestern Ontario asked an interesting question this week in an online forum:

Mike Lewis:

With all the new development going on with homes and such, why is it developers and builders tear apart the land, ripping up all the trees and brush? Could they possibly not remove all trees to level the ground, [and] leave some trees? Places would lo…