Plant a Tree, Reduce Carbon Emissions

Many people are now aware that high amounts of carbon dioxide pose a threat to the environment. In fact, studies have shown that climate warming is very likely due to the increase of carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere produced by human beings (1). While it is important to reduce the amount of carbon emissions we each produce on a regular basis, the act of clearing the atmosphere of already existing carbon dioxide emissions is necessary as well.
Afforestation, the planting of trees and plants on land that has not yet been forested (2), is a great, cost-efficient way of helping to mitigate climate change, as well as planting bio energy crops that collect carbon dioxide and can also be burned as fuel. Read more on bio energy crops here: http://bioenergycrops.com/.
The term afforestation is often confused with reforestation, which is planting trees in already existing forests that have a decreasing number of trees. Think of afforestation more as creating a forest where it did not previously exist.