2008 Tree-Planting Highlights:

Emma is a unique email marketing and communications service allowing their 10,000+ clients to easily create and manage their custom email newsletters and campaigns. This wonderful and incredible company with a history of giving back to charities, helping needy families and a laundry list of great deeds decided to partner with Plant-It 2020 by planting 5 trees for every new customer who signs-up... approximately 15,000 trees per year. Emma's long and strong history of giving back to needy people, small businesses in need, the environment as well as providing an excellent service that drastically reduces corporate use of paper makes them an outstanding company well worth checking out. We use them and couldn't be happier! You can see Emma's website at: http://myemma.com/

NTRglobal is an international software company serving and satisfying many of the top corporations throughout the United States and abroad. Their software product lines reduce a company's carbon footprint and costs by offering remote technical support and remote administration for their employee's computers. They even have software allowing one to access your computer remotely through the web. Being Mac compatible would already make them 'cool' in our book but NTRglobal North America partnered with Plant-It 2020 to link product sales with tree-planting. If your company wants to drastically reduce IT internal tech support costs while helping the environment or simply to access and/or repair your Mac (or PC) remotely then check them out at: http://www.ntrglobal.com/en/home.asp

Vista Lexus is a Lexus dealer in Vista California. No oil-slicked-hair jerks there. They actually, truly, really, deeply care about the environment rather than just positive publicity. As a result, they have linked sales of their Lexus hybrids to planting trees in both California wildfire areas an equatorial regions. This is an example of combining local interest with the most effective carbon offset approach. They don't limit their generosity just to planting trees though - they give to numerous charities and civic groups. Check them out at: http://www.vistalexus.com/

Lighthouse Document Technologies is a full-service litigation support and information management provider with a strong history of giving back to the environment using multiple methods. In March of 2008 they launched the Lighthouse Sustainability Initiative. This is a commitment they made to reinvest a portion of their profits back into the environment in order to make the printing of documents sustainable. For every tree that they use printing paper documents, they will sponsor the re-planting of at least two indigenous trees in Washington State through Plant-It 2020. 1,500 trees will be planted annually. Additional information regarding Lighthouse Document Technologies along with their environmental programs can be found at their website at: http://lighthousedt.com/

Karen Bernardi and The Bernardi Group with Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Boulder, will be donating 10 indigenous trees for every home closing through the group's alignment with Plant-It 2020. All trees will be planted in Colorado. Karen Bernardi and her team are involved in numerous charities and foundations, including The Children's Hospital, Impact on Education, Intercambio de Communidades, and the Community Foundation, among others so reforestation is simply a continuance of 'Making the World a Better Place' for them. You can visit the Bernardi Group's website at: http://www.bernardigroup.com/.

Brookline Homes, a custom-to-semi-custom, green, home builder based in Denver, Colorado is auctioning a home in September, 2008 with a portion of the proceeds going towards planting trees through Plant-It 2020. The trees will help reforest denuded Lodgepole Pine forests destroyed by the mountain pine beetle throughout Colorado, USA. Brookline came to Plant-It 2020 as they wanted to go past the stringent Energystar and Built Green standards while simultaneously 'giving back' to Colorado. You can see the flyer (PDF Format) by clicking here describing the auction and partnership and you can go directly to the Brookline Homes website at: http://www.BrooklineColorado.com

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, a company with over 650 child-care centers worldwide is planting over 5,000 trees through Plant-It 2020 as a part of its paper reduction and paper eco-conversion strategy. They consistently demonstrated to us that they were less interested in generating positive PR and more interested in implementing a 'true green' approach towards paper use that is genuine rather than superficial. Perhaps, this attitude is why they were ranked in the 2008 Fortune '100 best companies to work for'. You can learn more about Bright Horizons by going to: http://www.brighthorizons.com/

Plant-It 2020 funded pruning maintenance of the oak collection within the Denver Botanical gardens, Denver, Colorado, USA. The Denver Botanic Gardens (DBG) is one of 15 institutions participating in the North American Plant Collections Consortium's (NAPCC) Multi-Institutional Quercus (Oak) Collections Consortium . The goal of this consortium is to establish and enhance oak collections existing within the participating insitutions in order to recognize its value for germplasm conservation, plant collections management standards, education and public awareness. Funding was sought to enhance its existing oak collections to meet the standards of this National program. The existing oak trees at DBG were in dire need of pruning. You can learn more about this organization at: http://www.botanicgardens.org/

2,000 trees planted in Denver, Colorado, USA, with 50% of the trees going into Denver's twenty-one most under-served neighborhoods. This project is the 2008 "Denver Digs Trees" Street Tree Project and is coordinated by The Park People. Denver's current canopy coverage is 10.4% and the recommended urban canopy coverage is 25% so this project is an attempt to move towards that long-term goal. Residents were educated about planting and maintenance. You can get more information about this at: http://www.theparkpeople.com/denver_digs_trees.htm

32,000 indigenous trees planted in the Magdalena Natural Area, El Salvador. Funded partly by the extreme generosity of Claudia Sbrissa and Curt Peters, this reforestation project has the following four benefits: 1) The trees roots capture rainwater during the rainy season and release it via natural springs during the dry season, providing a crucial source of drinking water, 2) The fruit trees provide a needed source of healthy vitamins and income to needy families, 3) The erosion of topsoil from steep slopes is prevented, and 4) A staff Forestry Technician will train groups on proper tree-planting techniques and how to integrate trees into agricultural systems. He will also provide outreach programs educating community groups and schools on the importance of forest conservation and reforestation.

The Synergy Company is a Utah based nutritional supplement firm that leads the country in operating sustainably. They actively support organic agriculture, purchase 100% of its energy from wind power and have created SynerTreesTM - a reforestation program to annually plant indigenous trees in the US at a rate exceeding their own consumption. The Synergy Company has partnered with Plant-It 2020 for many years and maintains the leading edge in responsible manufacturing and operations in regards to society and Earth friendliness. We cannot thank them enough for their support and see them as a role model for the world's business community. You can learn more about The Synergy Company at: http://www.thesynergycompany.com/

Converseon is a full service social media communications agency based in New York City. Think, a web 2.0 advertising and marketing firm focused on electronic media - except that they truly care about the environment. Enough so that they invested a tremendous amount of time and money in creating an island in SecondLife where an 'avatar' can purchase and plant a virtual tree and have the corresponding tree planted in endangered rainforest environments. The Second Chance Trees Reforestation Project is an example of Converseon being the first company to use virtual reality as an effective tool for radically improving the world's forests in physical reality. Their generosity has led to displaying how the focus on environmental stewardship can and should be an integral part of both virtual and physical reality. Aside from the virtual-to-real reforestation, Converseon is also the industry leader in web 2.0 communications and will make any business more successful. You can learn more about Converseon at: http://www.converseon.com/ and the Second Chance Trees Reforestation Project at: http://www.secondchancetrees.org/.