Babystepstogreen’s Weblog

Trees In Trust enables you to quickly and easily dedicate a piece of forest to give as a gift, as a memorial or to reduce your carbon footprint.  You don’t own the trees, but they are held in your name forever by a not-for-profit charitable land trust which protects the woodland in perpetuity.

The 2005 Canadian government information on Climate Change estimates that you produce 3 tonnes of CO2 if you drive a mid-sized car 15,000 km a year and another 4 tonnes to cover heating, lighting and other appliances, totaling 7 tonnes of CO2 per year.

An acre of mature trees can capture 2.6 tonnes of CO2 per year.

The Kyoto target for Canada is to reduce our CO2 output by 6% of 1990 levels by 2012.

A sixth of an acre of trees can capture 430Kg of CO2 per year, which is 6% of your annual CO2 production.

So one way to meet your personal Kyoto target of a 6% reduction of CO2 is to secure a sixth of an acre of trees.  To absorb your entire personal CO2 production requires almost 3 acres of trees.

Many dismiss the Kyoto target as impractical, impossible, ineffective – but if we do nothing then we are headed for disaster.  Only by many of us acting individually can we make a real difference.