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What Can Trees Do?
Lift Communities from Poverty
Reforestation and sustainable forest management elevate distressed economies by providing employment and business opportunities. They also improve the quality of the air, water, and food supply in communities impacted by climate change.
Empower Women
Women make up 70% of the world’s poor. Through seed collection, tree nursery maintenance, and other restoration activities, planting trees creates employment and entrepreneurial opportunities for women in areas where they are often excluded from the economy.
Slow Climate Change
39 million square kilometers of the world’s farmland has been destroyed by climate change, exploitative agricultural practices, and other threats. Reforesting just over half of that land could significantly slow global warming by cooling the air and increasing our cloud cover.
Sustain Our Way of Life
Every tree we plant has a positive environmental impact. It means less carbon in the atmosphere, cleaner air, more water, fertile soil, and better quality of life for all of us. Together, we have the power to plant enough trees to limit the effects of climate change on a global scale and make our way of life sustainable for ourselves and future generations.
How Does It Work?
Planting trees is a highly scalable, cost-effective solution to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Today, our forests hold as much as 45% of the world’s carbon (NASA). By storing CO2 from the atmosphere in their soils and biomass, our forests
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You can GROW HOPE with just $1.
Every tree you plant is an act of hope. How many trees will you plant today? Who are you growing hope for? You can also give the gift of a better future by planting a tree in someone’s honor. Let’s RISE together.
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