I am incredibly happy to announce that Green is Universal and the Arbor Day Foundation have teamed up once again for their annual Share a Tree campaign and I have been lucky enough to be selected to help spread the word about this awesome initiative!*
This year, for every digital tree shared before the end of December, the Arbor Day Foundation will plant a tree and for every 25,000 shared, Green is Universal will donate $5,000.
The Share a Tree Program will help the Arbor Day Foundation plant trees all across the United States in our national forests, state forests, and state parks. Two places in which trees will be planted is in Michigan’s Mackinaw and Ausable State Forests.
Jack pine trees will be planted to improve the habitat of the endangered Kirtland’s warbler. This neotropical migratory songbird’s breeding habitat is almost exclusively confined to young, dense Jack pine stands in the area. Today, Kirtland’s warblers are found in only ten counties on Michigan’s northern lower peninsula and four counties in the upper peninsula. Efforts by the Arbor Day Foundation’s replanting partners have increased the number of singing males from less than 200 to more than 1,900, bringing the species back from the brink of extinction.
On the site, they’ve created a virtual forest where people can visit the site, decorate a tree and easily share it on social media with the click of a button. Included in the forest on the site are about 40 trees that were hand drawn by celebrities like Al Roker, Dolvett Quince and Meredith Vieira and if people don’t feel like decorating their own tree, they can share a “Celebratree” instead.
Additionally, it can be as easy as watching out for the #ShareATree hashtag, because if you retweet or share someone else’s tree on social media, that counts towards the totals, too!!
So, if you’re looking for a super simple way to help the environment, this is just about as simple as it gets! And who knows, maybe you’ll even have a little fun in the meantime!
So, pop on over to the Share a Tree site and decorate your first tree!
xoxo,
M
*In the interest of full disclosure, I do want to make sure you know that I am personally receiving a gift in the form of trees that will do well in our climate in exchange for this blog post about the Share a Tree initiative. However, because this is such a cool (and easy) way to be green and feel like I’m doing a little something extra for the environment (I mean, really, who doesn’t like trees?!), I would have supported this initiative without the gift. And, yes, my opinions really are my own 🙂
