We need to do something like this in Nepal too, seriously. "Their seven-bedroom, $2.2 million dream home is in spotless, move-in condition. It's an elegant hideaway on 1.6 acres in Oakton, set back from a winding, tree-lined road -- a perfect place for their four youngest children to grow up. But for 36 days, Karen and Joe Bartling and their children have been homeless. Along with their college-age son and the family's Labrador retriever, they have been holed up in a tiny efficiency apartment in Chantilly with a pullout couch, all of their belongings in a storage locker." "The Bartlings can't move in until their builder plants 20 to 80 trees on their property that Fairfax County says are required in part because the builder cut down too many mature trees during construction." Read more http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/13/AR2006071301485.html