American Forests will plant one tree for every dollar that you donate. It has numerous reforestation projects that you can choose from, including planting trees in places where they were killed during forest fires or hurricanes like Katrina. Trees help clean the air that we pollute with our cars and other activities.

This is from the Web site, www.americanforests.org. Check it out for yourself.

Tree Planting a Practical, Effective Way to Remove CO2

by American Forests

Lately it seems that everyone is talking about climate change. That’s important because earth’s temperatures are skyrocketing—and we humans are the cause. With so much talk of melted polar ice caps, warmer oceans, and excessive heat and drought, it may seem that small steps can’t help. But they can.

Planting trees is a practical, low-cost, and effective way to begin removing CO2 from the atmosphere right now. Excess carbon is released when fossil fuels like coal and gasoline are burned to release energy and that carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide—CO2—a greenhouse gas, blankets the earth and causes temperatures to rise.

We must reduce fossil fuel consumption and the activities that release greenhouse gases; make tree planting one way you help offset the negative effects of carbon in the atmosphere.

AMERICAN FORESTS, the nation’s oldest citizen conservation group, has been planting trees for forest restoration since its founding in 1875. In 1988 we launched Global ReLeaf to foster the planting of trees to cool the globe.