Action #007

Plant a tree

This action has been done 9,430 times which means 1,112,740 kgs of O₂ are being released every year.

Trees are amazing things. They take in stuff we don't like (carbon dioxide) and pump out stuff we do (oxygen). And yet we get rid of these amazing things every year. In fact, 33 soccer pitches of trees are cut down every minute worldwide. You can do something to help. And you don't need to be able to tell your Dimmocks from your Titchmarshes to do it.

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Buckler, Picton & Buckler-Picton did this action
Trees as gifts
For significant birthdays for my mum and dad I bought them trees using Woodland Trust. http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/Pages/default.aspx 17 July 2010, 12:18
Rachel did this action
Plant A Tree XD
i have planted 3 apple seeds and they all sprouted! my sister also as a year old sycamore tree she grew from a seed and a 4 year old apple tree :D 25 June 2010, 08:45
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brownies tree planting day
tomorrow im going to plant a tree with my girl guide group to make our mark in the world and make a change 09 April 2010, 19:18
armella did this action
plant a tree
i tryed to plant a apple tree but it dident grow :( 15 February 2010, 15:21
Lauren Cooper did this action
Blackburn College tree planting project
we organise and ran a project to plant a tree at our college and got people to come along. i gave a short speech to tell the spectators about the tree and we are what we do! we hope to spread the word of wawwd with it! 18 January 2010, 22:09
crazydave did this action
trees :D
trees are random but nice.
I am making an ict project on them :D 14 December 2009, 09:59
Bethan did this action
Tree planting
I have never planted a tree but I have grown plants (unsuccessfully!) but I do own a tree which my parents bought for me along with the ande when I was young. 10 November 2009, 15:35
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How I planted trees :)
I have planted trees twice - once with my real family in Estonia and the other time with my host family with whom I was living in Ecuador. Both of the times it has been a great pleasure and a nice day out with the people I love. 01 October 2009, 15:30

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Plant a tree
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about paper and trees
- A single tree will absorb approx 730kg of CO2 over its lifetime.
- One person causes about 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide to be emitted a year. One tree removes about 3/4 of a tonne of CO2 over its lifetime.
- By cooling the air and ground around them, the shade from trees helps cool the earth's temperature.
- A single mature beech tree can produce enough oxygen for 10 people in a year.
- Trees renew our air supply by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen.
- Shade trees can make buildings up to 20 degrees cooler in the summer.
- Trees lower air temperature by evaporating water in their leaves.
- Tree roots stabilize soil and prevent erosion.
- Trees improve water quality by slowing and filtering rain water, as well as protecting aquifers and watersheds.
- Over one given year; one hectare of mature woodland will absorb the carbon emissions of 100 average family cars.
- It is estimated that the average person in the UK consumes the equivalent of 12 trees a year. This present rate of world consumption is unsustainable and yet trees are vital to our life on earth.
- In the UK only 12% of our land is wooded, compared with an average of 32% in each European country. It's essential we retain wooded areas to help reduce pollution, generate oxygen, maintain wildlife habitats and improve quality of life.
- 1 ton of uncoated virgin (non-recycled) printing and office paper uses 24 trees.
  
  1 ton of 100% virgin (non-recycled) newsprint uses 12 trees.
  
  A "pallet" of copier paper (20-lb. sheet weight, or 20#) contains 40 cartons and weighs 1 ton. Therefore, 1 carton (10 reams) of 100% virgin copier paper uses 0.6 trees.
  
  1 tree makes 16.67 reams of copy paper or 8,333.3 sheets.
  
  1 ream (500 sheets) uses 6% of a tree.
  
  1 ton of coated, higher-end virgin magazine paper (used for magazines like National Geographic and many others) uses a little more than 15 trees (15.36).
  
  1 ton of coated, lower-end virgin magazine paper (used for news magazines and most catalogs) uses nearly 8 trees (7.68). (Source)
- To calculate how many trees are saved by using recycled paper (1) Multiply the number of trees needed to make a ton of the kind of paper you're talking about (groundwood or freesheet) by the percent recycled content in the paper. For example, 1 ton (40 cartons) of 30% postconsumer content copier paper saves 7.2 trees. 1 ton of 50% postconsumer content copier paper saves 12 trees.

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