Nick Rosen, 50
Christmas, the time for peace, harmony, generosity….. oh, and stress over-eating and relentless retail mania. Adopting some trees for Christmas might be a way out of the seasonal gift dilemma.
Film-maker Barney Snow and photographer Bridget Smith just gave Off-Grid Editor, Nick Rosen, 50 trees in Honduras from www.oxfamunwrapped.com for his birthday present, and now he says he is re-gifting them to all his relatives, one tree at a time, “with enough left over for next year.” As he says: “Christmas tree sorted. Christmas sorted.”
We are not talking the non-drop, fir variety here, of course, but Rainforest hardwood. This is not an appeal to buy mahogany toilet seats for Christmas presents either. But wouldn’t all other presents pale in comparison if you gave someone a 60m high, ancient hardwood tree?
A tree costs all of £1, and purchased trees are protected from being chopped down forever (they claim)
and are managed by local people. Bearing in mind that experts are predicting that the rainforest will disappear within 20 years if logging continues at the present rate, giving a tree might here also mean giving future generations air to breathe.
Go to http://www.greenmail4me.com to buy a tree or three and while you are there you could also measure the carbon dioxide your lifestyle creates. You will be surprised how many trees it takes to offset your CO2 emissions.
For only $18.00 you can preserve an area of rainforest the size of a football field in perpetuity and receive a gift certificate at www.calakmul.org.
At www.arf.net.au you can buy a rainforest tree for A$55.00, which will be planted on your behalf in special revegetation areas and a certificate will be sent with a unique identification code and information on how to find your tree.
With www.worldlandtrust.org you can save a BIG tree for peanuts. With a donation of 10p one tree will be saved, so a £150 donation will protect 1500 trees. An acre of rainforest with several hundred trees can be saved for £25.
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This post was quite nice. Appreciate it, keep up the work.
Cool post, Lilac.
Hope you don’t mind – I wanted to share your information and two days ago I posted it with a political group I belong to. Yesterday a friend spent $100 on trees as a result. :D I’m getting some too.