About Us: Global Cooling™ Center
 
The "Global Cooling™" Action Center:
 
Through photosynthesis, trees and other plants take in carbon dioxide and replace it with oxygen. By restoring tree cover to barren lands, we have a very cost-effective way to continuously remove carbon dioxide (the major "greenhouse gas") from the global atmosphere. And when we start such projects in the developing countries of the humid tropics, we can plant about five times as many trees and remove about 15 times as much carbon for the same cost.
 
Global CoolingTM remedies are straightforward. If you have too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, you have two choices:
 
1)  
   Stop putting more carbon dioxide into the air, and
   
2)  
   If you do put CO2 into the air, absorb it and store it.
 
The Global Cooling Action Center of Trees for the Future has a three-step action plan for reducing human impact on the atmosphere:
 
1)  
 To encourage people around the world to use fossil fuels more efficiently,
and even more important, to switch to renewable energy sources.
   
2)  
To protect old-growth trees and rainforests as “warehouses for carbon”
and to harvest existing forests in a sustainable manner.
   
3)  
To plant trees in the tropics to offset the carbon dioxide that we produce.
   
In simple terms, reduce what you can, and absorb the rest by planting trees in tropical locations.
 
The Global Cooling™ Center features books and certificates that make great gifts for environmentally-minded individuals:
   
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Global Cooling™ Vehicles / Cool car certificates
 
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Trees for Travel certificates
 
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Global Cooling™ Businesses
 
  Global Cooling Vehicles
   
  The Problem:
  The use of fossil fuels is growing fast and increasingly polluting the global atmosphere with “greenhouse gases” that threaten all of us with global warming. The most important of these gases is carbon dioxide (CO2), which our cars emit. The more gas a vehicle uses, the more CO2 it emits. The typical American car is driven 11,000 miles in a year and emits its own weight in carbon as CO2.
   
  The Answer:
  Through photosynthesis, trees take CO2 out of the air, replacing it with life-giving oxygen. Our program helps people plant trees on the world’s most barren, devastated lands. Each of these fast-growing, beneficial, permanent trees takes about 50 lbs. of CO2 from the atmosphere each year.
   
  Planting trees is the most cost-effective way to take CO2 out of the atmosphere. Our international tree planting projects plant trees at an average cost of ten cents ($.10) per tree.
   
  For $40.00, you can purchase a "Global Cooling" certificate for planting more than 400 trees in a developing country - enough trees to sequester all the carbon emissions of your car - and they keep doing it year after year, making your car a Global Cooling Vehicle.
   
  The Trees for Travel™ Program
   
  A typical jet emits approximately 1 pound of CO2 for every passenger-mile it flies. Over 2000 miles (3200 km), the plane emits one ton of carbon dioxide per passenger.
   
  A roundtrip from New York to Los Angeles creates about 3 tons of carbon dioxide per passenger.
   
  A round trip from Rome to New York creates about 4 tons of carbon dioxide per passenger.
   
  The most cost-effective way to meet the threat of global climate change is by restoring tree cover to the world's barren lands. Our 16-year-old program is helping thousands of villages to plant millions of trees.
   
  Each tree planted in the humid tropics absorbs 50 pounds (22 kg) of carbon dioxide every year for at least 40 years - each tree will absorb 1 ton of CO2 over its lifetime!
   
  Because communities in developing countries join our tree planting program voluntarily to protect their soil, groundwater, and way of life, we are able to plant beneficial trees at a total cost of about ten cents ($.10) per tree.
   
  What YOU Can do to Make a Difference When You Travel
   
  So that you can travel without damaging the atmosphere by planting more than the required number of trees, we offer planting certificates in denominations of $1.00 and $40.00.
   
  A $40.00 certificate plants 400 trees and makes you a member of our organization. Members receive our quarterly newsletter and updates about the projects they support.
   
  The $1.00 certificates are made for businesses working in the travel industry who want to have tree planting certificates to hand out to clients. These certificates are sold in lots of 50.
   
  What TRAVEL AGENTS & OTHER Businesses Can Do
   
  We offer Trees for Travel Kits for businesses involved in the travel industry. Kits are sold in $50.00 increments, each containing 50 certificates that have a space provided to place your company's stamp or label. Participating companies are also permitted to use the five different Global Cooling, TREES, and Trees for Travel logos for promotional uses.
We can also tailor a certificate design specifically to your business!
   
  Call (1-800-643-0001) or email find out how to become a Global Cooling Business
   
 
 
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