Celebrating with IKEA.AMERICAN FORESTS American Forests is a nonprofit conservation organization that promotes healthy forests and urban tree planting. The organization was established in 1875 as the American Forestry Association, by physician/horticulturist John Aston Warder and a group of like-minded citizens was front and center in October when Swedish retailer IKEA IKEA Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd (Swedish home furnishings retailer founder's initials and location) celebrated 20 years in the U.S. at festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. in Chicago. AMERICAN FORESTS is one of IKEA's three nonprofit partners. Over the past seven years, IKEA has partnered with AMERICAN FORESTS to plant more than 210,000 trees in Global ReLeaf and urban community planting projects. These include an elementary school near Baltimore, Maryland; a city park in Chicago, and a portion of national forestland for·est·land n. A section of land covered with forest or set aside for the cultivation of forests. burned by a wildfire near Los Angeles. IKEA has also sponsored Living Classrooms--gifts of trees, lesson plans, and high-tech computer software that teach students to integrate math, science, and geography by studying the beneficial effects of trees on communities. |
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