Reduce your impact on the environment by pledging a tree in Kenya, Honduras or other Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) country project. Instead of giving porcelain animals or dolls and flat screen TVs, consider pledging a tree. While it may not be a wrappable present or one that your loved ones and friends would have on their gift list, it is a gift for the Earth and will help reduce the carbon footprint.
Through your tree pledges, you will not only reduce carbon footprints, but also sustain small disadvantaged communities, reduce poverty, support and maintain wildlife habitats and provide medicine for orphaned children and those living with HIV/AIDS. Each tree planted, according to CarbonFootprint.com, “offsets” your environmental impact by reducing 1 ton of CO2 emissions over the tree’s lifetime. Moreover, each person, worldwide needs to save about 7 tons of CO2 each year. One way to your carbon footprints every year is to pledge or plant 7 trees. Pledges are low cost, but have a high impact at no more than 20 dollars a pledge. Much less than an iPod or 2 tickets to a rock concert.
Other reforestation projects include incorporating clean or renewable energy offsets around the world and reforesting with Maya Nut trees in disadvantaged countries. Reduce carbon footprints with planting native Maya Nut trees in the UK you are helping to reduce poverty, malnutrition and rainforest destruction. More information can be found on CarbonFootprint.com about the benefits of planting Maya Nut trees to help local communities in the UK.
