Driven to plant.LeasePlan LeasePlan Corporation - a market company, established in 1963, Netherlands car leasing operator with a total fleet of approximately 130,000 vehicles. LeasePlan Corporation comprises an international network of companies engaged in all aspects of fleet and vehicle management. has the drive to do some serious tree-planting. The vehicle fleet-management company understands the importance of being environmentally conscious and its own role in minimizing vehicle emissions' effect on our environment. GreenPlan, developed by LeasePlan in partnership with 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 , is a fleet carbon-neutralization program that allows companies to counteract carbon emissions emissions npl → émissions fpl emissions npl → Emissionen pl from their corporate fleet vehicles through tree planting. Tree planting can reduce the impact of carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. emitted by vehicles because trees take in C02 and release it as oxygen. Recent studies show 1.7 billion tons of carbon are produced annually by fuel vehicles in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Carbon dioxide accounts for approximately 85 percent of all greenhouse gases greenhouse gas n. Any of the atmospheric gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. greenhouse gas . The GreenPlan program will plant seedlings in areas throughout the country that AMERICAN FORESTS has determined need trees, many due to damage by natural or human causes. AMERICAN FORESTS had 21 of these Global ReLeaf Forest sites being planted in 2006. Once mature, the trees will help clean the air, rivers, and streams; control soil erosion, provide food and habitat to wildlife; and add overall beauty to the landscape. The species vary based on what is needed in the area. LeasePlan celebrated the summer launch of GreenPlan by pledging to plant enough trees to offset the carbon produced by its own fleet of corporate vehicles. It invited employees to do the same. To date, LeasePlan and its employees have been responsible for the planting of more than 11,000 trees. LeasePlan now offers corporate fleet customers the opportunity to join GreenPlan as well. To offset the carbon emissions produced by your corporate fleet, contact a LeasePlan representative or visit www.GoGreenPlan.com. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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