Seven Trees A Year
Seven trees — that how many trees the average American uses up in one year. Think about that for a second. 7 trees… that is a lot.
Maybe try seven steps to cut back your personal tree consumption. Trees do little for your diet anyhow.
- Use reusable grocery bags. 700 paper grocery bags use up one tree. Use your reusable bag 700 times and there’s one tree.
- Recycle your newspapers. After you recycle about 750-800 newspapers you’ve saved one tree.
- The average wooden home is built with around five trees. If you build use an alternative method like adobe or straw bale. That’s five trees you can save all at one time — it’s like being a super hero. If you still build with wood plan a smaller than average home which could save one or two trees.
- Don’t buy a Christmas tree — or save one by having a living tree.
- Plant one tree. Better yet plant back all seven you may have used.
- It takes 10 million trees to create all this junk mail we get. Cancel yours and be responsible for less. If you also recycle your phone books and do not pick up fliers everywhere you go during the year you can save around one tree per year.
- The Rainforest Action Network reports that the average hamburger represents 55 square feet of forest area that contains one full grown tree. That’s what is cut down to allow cattle to graze. Eat less meat (or none) and save countless trees.
Kids will like the Lorax’s Save the Tree game and after playing kids get to add their name to the official Lorax’s “Friends of the Earth” honor roll!
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3 opinions for Seven Trees A Year
Amy G!
Oct 2, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Thank you so much for setting this site up! It’s very informative, and encouraging. It’s nice to know that there still are people out there who care. I’m going to try harder to do my part.
Keep fighting the good fight! I’m on your side.
xoxo
Amy G!
Diane Drinkwater
Oct 4, 2007 at 3:20 pm
What a lovely idea! I’m going to tell my friends how many trees they’ll save by recycling their newspapers! It puts it into context that between us at our end of the street we probably save 5 trees a year! I’m trying to get an orchard planted on our open space to bring local food to our street too!
Jennifer
Oct 4, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Amy and Diane; thanks for stopping by! I would have responded sooner but I’ve been moving houses. Amy, what a nice comment and I’m glad to hear there are still people on my side (technically the planet’s side) sometimes I wonder what ratio of folks that makes up so every extra person counts big.
Diane, love the looks of your site. I’m just getting back to work but will check it out more over the weekend and maybe link you :) I LOVE the site name.
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