While the various mainstream eco groups are focused on rain forests around the globe, you can have a more dramatic effect where you live!  You can participate in a project that affects your quality of life right here in your own back yard!  You can help right now in the Regreening of America!  And the best part is it's Easy!

Want to do something right now?
  
You can do something right this very minute to help regreen the U.S.A.  Just send a Text For Trees!  Click above to visit their site.

Once, most of North America looked just like this!

As America was settled, little by little, we have lost our forests.  I hasn't been just logging, or forest fires.  Urban sprawl, and the expansion of cities and agriculture has played the biggest role in nearly eliminating our virgin forests.  Loss of old-growth forest in the United States has been almost 99%; these maps represent our original virgin forests that we have lost. Some regrowth has occurred but not to the age, size or extent of 1620 due to population increases and food cultivation.  But, forests can be regrown and reestablished - if we want!

It's actually very simple.  Plant a tree!

It turns out that planting trees is far more effective in combating carbon dioxide then anything you can do!  Volunteer to plant tree in your local parks.  Plant tree in your yard!  Plant tree for your friends and family.  By regreening your local space, you can tip the scale and offset a significant part of your own carbon footprint!  And the best part, is you can do it for almost nothing - trees are cheap!

So get out this weekend and plant a tree with your children!

• About Arbor Day »

• Old Growth Forests »
   

• National Arbor Day Foundation »

• U.S. Forest Service »

• U.S. National Forest Maps »

• U.S. National Parks Service »

• Join a park Friends Group [PDF]

• Revitalize your community »

On Arbor Day, April 30th, 2010 - resellers join us in celebrating Green Friday!  Where manufacturers and retailers promote ecologically friendly products, and promote planting of trees in America!

Participating retailers and manufacturers donate to tree planting organizations, such as the Arbor Day Foundation - to plant a tree for every order.  Or, they encourage and organize their employees to go out into their community and plant neighborhood trees!

For businesses who want to participate, it's simple:

• It's free, just use the logo, and link to RegreeningAmerica.com
• Donate to the Arbor Day Foundation, or other state or local tree planting charity, or help your employees plant trees - we ask for nothing!
• No strings!  No catches.  Just Trees!
• It's all about the trees!

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