Fight Global Warming by Planting a Tree on iPhone

Thursday, 04 December 2008

A Real Tree‘ application, available on the iTunes AppStore, which makes tree-planting as easy as buying your favorite song.

With the click of a button iPhone or iPod touch owners can buy ‘A Real Tree’, by Mokugift, trees are then planted by partners, who are award-winning tree-planting organizations in 12 countries fighting deforestation and poverty: Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Burundi, Senegal, Zambia, India, Philippines, and Haiti.

The ‘A Real Tree’ application by Mokugift, is a simple way that we can all help to fight the effects of global warming, collectively. As Global warming becomes more apparent, more people want to do their part to influence change, yet so many of us are not sure what to do.

A Real TreeThere is hope. There are over 13 million iPhone users, and if every iPhone owner planted a tree, the environmental achievement would be equivalent to taking 500,000 cars off the road. By doing this together we can all have a much larger impact.

‘A Real Tree’ by Mokugift, is priced at $0.99. For the price of a song, those of us fortunate enough to own an iPhone and iPod touch can help people that are less fortunate, and help the environment all at the same time.

Specific trees (Orange, Banana, Coffee, Cocoa, Cedar, Teak, Mahogany, Acacia, Oak, etc) are chosen based on the climate and what the trees can provide for that particular community.

Global warming is what scientists refer to as the increase in the average measured temperate of the Earth’s ground, and atmosphere, spanning across the entire planet. Climate change threatens all life on earth by melting polar ice caps, and disrupting valuable eco-systems, which leads to the gradual extinction of plants, animals and even humans.

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