Environment: Trees

Save Tree ::: Trees Save !! This picture says so much with just 4 words.

As the old says goes, “”A picture is worth a thousand words”” !!

The picture shows what we need to protect our environment…

Here are some interesting facts about the co-relation of environment and trees:

• It is now the in thing and cool to “be green”. This lesson is becoming more and more crucial today by day.
• The rates of rainforest destruction are 2.4 acres per second, 149 acres per minute, 214,000 acres per day and 78 million acres per year. Just to put things in perspective, as you read this sentence, an area the size of 78 Olympic sized swimming pools would have been cut down.
• Trees are the most important natural resource we have, supplying us with oxygen while eliminating CO2 levels from the atmosphere.
• Trees help companies reduce greenhouse gases so trees are working for all of us i.e about 1000000000 people worldwide that attend work in an office environment everyday.
• One ream of paper equals five pounds (about 2.2 Kgs). The average world office employee uses around 7 reams of copy paper each year. This fact has set the world’s average paper consumption at 123 pounds of paper per person each year.
• This average is causing one billion trees to be cut down each year to satisfy the world’s paper demand.
• Trees remove 100 to 120 billion tons of carbon each year from man-made sources like (cars, trains, planes, etc).
• Trees moderate climate, improve air quality, conserve water and also harbor wildlife.
• Trees cut down energy costs- air conditioning and heating costs are lower in shaded areas or areas surrounded by trees.
• The process by which paper is manufactured is harmful to the environment as well. All the steps of paper manufacturing process- from logs to chips to pulp to paper- all emits heavy levels of CO2 into the air by using large amounts of electricity and chemicals.
• Adobe Reader has introduced Green PDF documents which are electronically circulated articles that are not allowed to be printed.

This is what we all can do to save paper and in turn save trees:-

1) Use both sides of paper whenever and wherever possible.

2) Read articles by way of Green PDFs: don’t print them.

3) Encourage others , especially children to save paper.

4) Save paper wherever you can.

5) Use the internet to your advantage: send Emails, invitations for communication.

6) Do not use pencils which have wood covering their lead. Lead pencils are available with polymer covering.