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December 2, 2007 - Sunday

Dedicate a christmas trees/ Dedica un arbol navideño

This year dedicate a tree to help save Earth instead of buying one for the living room.Plant a tree, then you can remove Carbon Dioxide from the global atmosphere.

There are a lot organizations where you can dedicate a tree as a Christmas gift for your family, friends or yourself.

Please don´t cut trees of our Forests. The destruction of our forests is continuing at an alarming rate and according to World Bank predictions at current rates of loss.

Buying a New Year tree can contribute to Deforestation. The cutting of New Year Trees is a senseless component of the overall disappearance of our forests, and will result in environmental and economic catastrophe. A typical New Year tree takes 7 years to grow, and is only displayed for 2 weeks. Over 30 – 40 % of the trees that are cut aren't even sold.

ALTERNATIVES:

1. Using artificial trees made with no contaminant substances (no plastic, no PVC) (its Cleaner, Safer, Reusable, with Variety of styles and Similar to natural trees)

2. Potted trees (that can be reused or planted in Spring), the branches of evergreens, or rented trees of farms, are the best alternatives to chopping down our forests during the festive season, but also consider:

- Decorating home plants (aloe, lemon tree, heranium, etc.) with Christmas toys

- Making a Christmas/ New Year Tree from newspaper or recycled materials

and our recommendation: dedicate a tree as a Christmas gift for your family, friends or yourself. Remember that a tree is a "Living Being

Este año dedica un árbol para ayudar a salvar la Tierra en lugar de comprar uno para tu casa. Planta un árbol y contribuye a disminuir la concentracion de Dióxido de Carbono de la atmósfera.

Son numerosas las organizaciones donde podrás dedicar un árbol como regalo de navidad para tu familia, amigos o para ti mism@.

Por favor no cortes los árboles de nuestros Bosques. La destrucción de nuestros bosques continua en un alarmante ritmo según las predicciones del Banco Mundial.

Comprar un árbol de año nuevo o navidad puede contribuir a la deforestación. La tala de árboles para usos navideños es una forma de contribuir a la completa desforestación de nuestros bosques, lo cual podría llevar a resultados medioambientales y económicos catastróficos. Un árbol típico de año nuevo/ navidad tarda una media de 7 años en crecer para ser utilizado sólo durantes unas dos semanas. Entre el 30 – 40 % de los árboles cortados jamás serán vendidos.

Las ALTERNATIVAS:

1. Utiliza árboles artificiales que no esten fabricados con sustancias contaminantes como plastico o PVC ( es más limpio, seguro, reutilizable, reciclable, con una gran variedad de estilos y similares a los árboles naturales)

2. Los árboles plantados en macetas (pueden ser reutilizados o plantados en Primavera), los arbolés de alquiler de granjas de cultivo, son la mejor alternativa a la tala de nuestros bosques durante las estación de fiestas, pero considera también:
- Decorar la casa con plantas (aloe, planta de limon, geranios, etc)

- Hacer un árbol de año nuevo/navidad con periódicos o materiales reciclados.

Y nuestra recomendación: dedica un árbol como regalo navideño para tu familia, amigos o para ti mism@. Recuerda que un árbol es un "Ser Vivo".

October 12, 2007 - Friday

Stop Deforestation

The statistics paint a grim picture. According to the World Resources Institute, more than 80 percent of the Earth's natural forests already have been destroyed. Up to 90 percent of West Africa's coastal rain forests have disappeared since 1900. Brazil and Indonesia, which contain the world's two largest surviving regions of rain forest, are being stripped at an alarming rate by logging, fires, and land-clearing for agriculture and cattle-grazing.

Among the obvious consequences of deforestation is the loss of living space. Seventy percent of the Earth's land animals and plants reside in forests. But the harm doesn't stop there. Rain forests help generate rainfall in drought-prone countries elsewhere. Studies have shown that destruction of rain forests in such West African countries as Nigeria, Ghana, and Côte d'Ivoire may have caused two decades of droughts in the interior of Africa, with attendant hardship and famine.

Deforestation may have catastrophic global effects as well. Trees are natural consumers of carbon dioxide—one of the greenhouse gases whose buildup in the atmosphere contributes to global warming. Destruction of trees not only removes these "carbon sinks," but tree burning and decomposition pump into the atmosphere even more carbon dioxide, along with methane, another major greenhouse gas.