How to Plant Trees Without Leaving Your Computer

Forget the shovel. All it takes to plant a tree are a few mouse clicks. Read on for some sites to help you help the environment.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

1. Visit www.tree-nation.com. According to the organization’s website, Tree-Nation is an ecological project with the goal of planting eight million trees in Niger, Africa. The group hopes that a large-scale tree planting will increase the land’s productivity. After you click on “Plant!,” select a tree and plant it.
2. Another site working to plant a million trees in 2008 is www.treesftf.com. Trees For the Future offers donors a chance to plant 450 trees by donating $45.
3. GreenDimes is helping to plant trees and stop junk mail. Log on to www.greendimes.com and for $20 they’ll stop your junk mail for a year and plant ten trees. GreenDimes has three non-profit tree-planting partners to plant trees in India, Haiti, Senegal, Central America and in the US.

Tips & Warnings

• Give a tree as a gift. Many of the sites offer opportunities to buy trees in someone’s behalf.