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Did you know that one acre of trees sucks up enough carbon to offset the pollution produced by one car driven 8,700 miles? Or that an extra 100 million trees in our cities would decrease energy costs by $2 billion? Every ton of new wood sucks up 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide. It’s been estimated that the carbon sequestered in our urban forests saves us some $22 billion in control costs. And that’s just the trees growing in our cities: the calculation doesn’t even take rural forests into account.

As you can see, there are a lot of good reasons why the National Arbor Day Foundation and Trees for the Future are a couple of our favorite charities. With the help of our customers, Clean Air Gardening donated money to plant more than 20,000 trees in 2006 through 2007.

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