Via USA Today:
For eco-friendly Christmas, rent a live potted tree
Fake or real? The sight of all of those Christmas trees tossed out to the curb, once the new year dawns, has always made me wonder whether an artificial tree wouldn't be more eco-friendly.
In Portland, Ore. (no surprise there!) in 1992, the Original Living Christmas Tree Company began renting out live trees, picking them up after the holiday and replanting them in watersheds across the Pacific Northwest.
Since then, companies or non-profit groups in San Diego (adoptachristmastree.com), San Francisco (fuf.com) and Vancouver, British Columbia, (evergrowchristmastrees.ca) have also started offering this service. I've noticed quite a few in the United Kingdom as well.
7 comments:
What an amazing concept! And, it's beautiful...
Not a tree, but something 'green'.
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what a wonderful idea, my daughter becky makes me go to the canyon , now 29 years straight to harvest a live tree, but of course by the time it is harvested, it starts to die...i try to buy artificial but she says if i [SHE}has to pay $50 in atree lot, she is going to do it, so i relent and get the free just need a free tag and the famand SHE TOO goes up through the snow on an outing and their it isTHE BARLOW FAMILY CHRISTMAS tree with a light from up above and from afar glowing down to point it's location just like in chevy chase's movie and she will see the tree later when her eyes aren't frozen
Great idea!
Interesting idea...
Merry Christmas Mary!
Now I love this idea. I have thought of getting a tree that could be planted, but I don't have that much room for that.. Great information for Thinking Green...Thank you Mary.. Michelle
Great idea, if you can't grow one, rent one.
My mum grew her tree,
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