By visiting this page and seeing the banners above, you have removed 4 pounds of CO2 (carbon dioxide) - which causes global warming - from the atmosphere, by helping to plant trees in the monarch butterfly forest of Michoacan, Mexico; through the La Cruz Habitat Protection Project. (more info.) These forests are the winter home for the millions of North American monarch butterflies living east of the Rocky Mountains. By planting native trees to protect the remaining forests, we are helping to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and also insure that monarch butterflies will continue to exist. If you would like to plant trees to honor a loved one and have them receive a certificate please click here. Note: one ton of carbon is removed from the atmosphere over the next 42 years for every 3.45 trees planted in this forest, so when you plant 25 trees you are also removing 7 and 1/4 tons of CO2! (EcologyFund and The Rainforest Site have planted over 20,000 trees since 1999).
As of 10/01/03, the former reduce pollution project on EcologyFund retired over 2600 tons of CO2 (to fight global warming) and 5 tons of sulfur dioxide (to fight acid rain) by purchasing CO2 and SO2 credits from the Environmental Action Desk and having them retired by the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC).
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CO2 Removed:
36,075,482 lbs.
SO2 Removed:
10,000 lbs. †
† SO2 totals are complete through 10/20/02. The SO2 project ended 10/20/02.
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If you replaced your Ford Excursion with a Honda Insight, over its lifetime you'd save $11,000 on gas and produce 107 fewer tons of CO2.
If you replaced your 1972 refrigerator with a 2001 model, you'd cut CO2 emissions by 1,100 pounds a year and save $80 a year on your energy bill.
If you replaced your top-loading washing machine with a new front-loader, you'd save $100 a year in energy, water, and detergent.
If you replaced your 75-watt incandescent lightbulb with a 20-watt compact fluorescent, you'd get the same amount of light but save 1,300 pounds of CO2 and $55.
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Mexico; through the La Cruz Habitat Protection Project. (
