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WHAT DRIVES TREE PLANTING?


The luxury car manufacturer Acura recently announced plans to plant Global ReLeaf trees 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
. The Company will plant one tree for each person who requests information from its website about the MDX (MultiDimensional EXpressions) A multidimensional query language. MDX uses syntax similar to SQL, but whereas SQL is used to query relational tables, MDX is used to query multidimensional cubes (OLAP databases). See SQL and OLAP. , Acura's new sports utility vehicle sports utility vehicle sport nvĂ©hicule m de loisirs (de type SUV)

sports utility vehicle n (esp US) → fuoristrada m inv 
, the first SUV to meet 50-state ultra-low vehicle emissions requirements. An on-board vapor recovery Vapor (or vapour) recovery is the process of recovering the vapors of gasoline or other fuels, so that they do not escape into the atmosphere. This is often done (or required by law) at filling stations, in order to reduce noxious and potentially explosive fumes and  system reduces emissions from fuel evaporation produced during fueling. Acura's goal is to plant 20,000 trees through its website promotion.
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Publication:American Forests
Geographic Code:1CANA
Date:Jun 22, 2000
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