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3,000 trees grow from paperless plan.


In one year, TitleVest, a Manhattan-based provider of title insurance and related real estate services, planted 3,044 trees, equivalent to 5.5 acres, through its Grow Paperless initiative in partnership with the Arbor arbor

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 Day Foundation.

TitleVest launched Grow Paperless in April 2008 in an effort to reduce the more than 100,000 sheets of paper the company consumed in an average month.

"TitleVest's commitment will have a big impact in areas that are in need of replanting," said Kevin Sander, director of corporate partnerships at the Arbor Day Foundation. "The trees planted by TitleVest will help restore wildlife habitat, clean the air, protect the soil and waterways The list of waterways is a link page for any river, canal, estuary or firth.
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 and restore an area for people to enjoy for generations to come."

Grow Paperless was inspired by the launch of TitleVest's interactive method of displaying its reports online. Reports are also viewable on BlackBerrys and other PDAs with internet access See how to access the Internet. . This eliminates the need for a paper report and helps TitleVest to reduce its overall paper consumption.

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 dedicated to converting paper markets to environmental papers, the average tree yields 17 reams of copy paper.

Through TitleVest's donation to the Arbor Day Foundation, the Company has offset the consumption of 51,748 reams of copy paper, which equals nearly 26 million sheets.

"We are pleased with the results of our first green initiative and grateful to our clients for their participation," said Bill Baron baron

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, president of TitleVest.
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Publication:Real Estate Weekly
Date:Apr 29, 2009
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