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About Us: Global Cooling™ Center
 
Through photosynthesis, trees and other plants take in carbon dioxide and replace it with oxygen. By restoring tree cover to barren lands, we have a very cost-effective way to continuously remove carbon dioxide (the major "greenhouse gas") from the global atmosphere. And when we start such projects in the developing countries of the humid tropics, we can plant about five times as many trees and remove about 15 times as much carbon for the same cost.
 

Global CoolingTM remedies are straightforward. If you have too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, you have two choices:

  1.   Stop putting more carbon dioxide into the air, and
  2.   If you do put CO2 into the air, absorb it and store it.
 

The Global Cooling Action Center of Trees for the Future has a three-step action plan for reducing human impact on the atmosphere:

  1. To encourage people around the world to use fossil fuels more efficiently,
    and even more important, to switch to renewable energy sources.
  2. To protect old-growth trees and rainforests as “warehouses for carbon”
    and to harvest existing forests in a sustainable manner.
  3. To plant trees in the tropics to offset the carbon dioxide that we produce.
 

In simple terms, reduce what you can, and absorb the rest by planting trees in tropical locations.

Trees for the Future plants trees at less than 10 cents per tree. These trees absorb about 50 pounds of carbon dioxide per year. Planting trees is a great way to help mitigate some of your impact on the planet. Please donate today, and help us plant trees!

 
 
   
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