Printers - and equipment vendors - across North America are helping fund tree-planting in a variety of ways. Here are just a few examples. Spirit Graphics, winner of the 2009 WhatTheyThink Environmental Innovation Award for Thought Leadership, has partnered with American Forests to launch a program called Infinite Green. Spirit Graphics has created and is offering for sale T-shirts to help fund American Forests’ goal to plant 100 million trees by 2020. For each organic cotton T-shirt sold, three trees will be planted. St. Joseph Communications and Scouts Canada developed Partners in Growth®, a reforestation program inspired by the notion of “use a tree, plant a tree.” Through this program, St. Joseph Communications facilitates the planting of three seedlings, through Scouts Canada, for every ton of paper printed on a customer’s behalf. LithExcel Communications of Albuquerque donated more than 100 double-sided banners in support of the city’s Urban Forest Project. The project will help fund Albuquerque’s Urban Forest Improvement Initiative that will plant more than 11,000 trees in the city. The banners are printed on recyclable vinyl and will be turned into tote bags to be sold when they are taken down. RISO left the rest of the pack behind with a partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation that will help plant 100,000 trees over the next four years. In a 2008 “Fall Tree Planting Campaign,” RISO – and its dealers – planted trees in Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Tampa, and other major markets. If you know of similar projects that are in the works, please email me with any information. Thanks!