the nuclear plants and bombs are what scare me.. 

Intel is a great example, who is building the largest chip manufacturing plant in the US right here, and it will be a $20 billion dollar investment that brings a few new thousand jobs.https://www.dispatch.com/story/business/2022/01/21/intel-ohio-building-computer-chip-factories-licking-county-jersey-township/9173472002/ Here are a few more recent investments https://www.10tv.com/article/money/business/hydrogen-power-company-hyperion-bringing-700-jobs-to-columbus/530-25907aab-5517-4661-a9f3-d2ed2d5be6b0 https://news.wosu.org/news/2022-02-08/rumpke-to-build-50-million-recycling-facility-in-columbus

You won't get much fruit the first couple years after planting a young tree, but after 3-5 years your tree starts growing faster. 

Purchase price: $1,300,000 Cash invested: $700,000 Sale price: $3,300,000 Large lot (5-20 acres) subdivision outside of Cynthiana, KY, within 15 minute drive to Georgetown Toyota Assembly Plant.

Mulch and plastic in planting boxes/around trees.

I've come across alot of affordable duplexes on the East side around the Raytheon Plant and Community East Hospital along 16th & 21st street areas.

Don't plant a garden in the common area without permission (and then cry that the contractor drove on it.) 

@Jonathan Plant I'm based in Anchorage, Alaska.

All of the grass and all of the extensive and beautiful flowering plants were dead.

Any book on house plants will probably be good for the indoors.