Thursday, November 6, 2008

Change starts now



You can make a difference this weekend by planting a few of the 15,000 trees MillionTreesNYC will be sticking in the ground on Fall Planting Day. Just head to one of 10 parks in four boroughs, including Brooklyn's Canarsie Park and Queens's Idlewild Park, and dig in – getting us closer to that one-million goal by 2017. Don your manual-labor best – gloves, shovels, and water come with - then drop some green, 2-foot-tall trees (read: no heavy lifting) like oak and birch into our parks. When the 15,000 trees planted that day mature, they'll absorb 720,000 pounds of CO2 every year – that's like taking 58 cars off the road annually…

Wanna Try?
MillionTreesNYC Fall Planting Day; Nov. 8, 10 am-3 pm; register here.

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