Billion Tree Campaign
by Bonnie Alter, London on 11.10.06
Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai launched a campaign at the United Nations' Climate Change conference in Nairobi to plant a billion trees next year. That’s 32 every second—to highlight the need to fight global warming. Professor Maathai won the Nobel prize in 2004 for her involvement with the Greenbelt Movement, which she founded to promote human rights and reforestation in Kenya. The campaign is backed by Prince Albert II of Monaco, a recent convert to the green movement and the World Agroforestry Centre. As Mrs. Maathai said: "This is something that anybody can do. Anybody can dig a hole. Anybody can put a tree in the hole and water it, and everybody must make sure that the tree they plant survives. There are six billion of us and counting, so even if only one-sixth of us each planted a tree, we would definitely reach the target." Unfortunately the campaign is somewhat symbolic, since replacing trees lost by deforestation over the past decade will require planting 14-billion trees every year for the next ten years, the UN says. "A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." :: UN Billion Tree Campaign via :: Hugg


















This Thanks giving and Christmas I will be challenging all that I know to plant different nuts trees. Both for the Billion Tree challenge, and in memory of all the loss that the October Storm of 2006 wrought.
I may not get to enjoy tomorrow many of the trees that I plant today, but I am returning the favor to those who planted trees yesterday who are no longer around to enjoy them today because I am enjoying them today. And I hope that those people of tomorrow who enjoy the trees I plant today will do the same or more.
"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is today"
"Even if the world was going to end tomorrow, I would plant a tree today"
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Go Green and have a real Christmas tree for the holidays! Here are a few facts:
For every tree cut by tree farms, 3 are replanted.
Tree farms provide jobs and promote the United States economy
Artificial trees are made mostly overseas using fossil fuels.
Real Christmas Trees are biodegradeable and recycleable, Artificial trees are not!