The DM Print and Mail Company

To help reduce our carbon footprint, we offset our emissions by sponsoring trees.
We plant one tree for every order placed by our clients, that's in excess of
100 trees per month!

The DM Print & Mail Company is honoured to be the first mailing house to sign up to the
Million Tree Campaign.

For every order placed by a client, no matter how big or small one tree will be planted.

We are really excited by this new idea and are looking forward to seeing the results of our work. We may only contribute in a small way to the million trees, but we are thrilled to be part of something bigger as well.

Trees, when planted in appropriate locations, can convert carbon in the atmosphere into natural resources for much needed local communities. Trees bring so many benefits to our planet, including:

· Absorbing vast quantities of CO2 out of the Global Atmosphere (approx 25 kg a year, per tree)
· Help balance the eco-system, enhance bio-diversity & create microclimate conditions
· Providing much needed habitat for endangered wildlife
· Improving living standards - timber for furniture, paper, boats, recreation, food, medicines and homes
· Encouraging the return of indigenous plant species
· Their roots rebuild and stabilise worn soils in the most degraded areas
· Reducing erosion in the most desperate areas
· Cooling the earth by evaporating moisture from their leaves & shading the ground, allowing more vegetation to survive
· Guide water down to and replenish under ground aquifers where no crops can currently grow
· Improving soil quality for agriculture
· Acting as wind breakers and separating different crops in fields
· For every tree that we plant 3 are likely to grow back from dormant seeds lying in the ground that will be disturbed

We offer our clients the opportunity to enhance their marketing and sustainable environmental policies in a way that significantly helps the environment and our worldwide communities, at no cost to them.

Our clients are delighted to hear that they can contribute to this initiative, just by placing an order.

The Million Tree Campaign donates trees to families around the world to help them generate a sustainable income from food, medicines and shelter. Trees allow vegetation and other growth to survive in harsh conditions by retaining water in the soil and sheltering direct sunlight etc.

Trees can, if managed correctly provide a massive range of unexpected benefits and natural resources including medication which can be both used locally and sold throughout the world.

The benefits from these trees spread far beyond these remote villages, to our own homes, schools and communities as well. That's because these trees also remove from the global atmosphere great quantities of carbon dioxide, the major "greenhouse gas" (GHG) responsible for global climate change.

Trees take this carbon and turn it into things people need such as food, clothing, shelter, medicines and organic fertilizer - in doing so returning the carbon to the soil.

We are proud to work with The Million Tree Campaign, who in turn work closely with local tree planting organisations around the world planting millions of trees every year.

Through their projects and on our clients' behalf, we plant a wide range of tree types including both indigenous trees and fruit trees in tropical and African locations. They ensure the trees planted in your name provide as many benefits to the local communities as possible, and help save the environment.

The trees convert this CO2 into things people can use like food, shelter and medication and thus carbon offsetting is not the only benefits of trees to our environment.

Carbon Reductions' are often described as ways to reduce future carbon emissions and there are many of these such as developing wind turbines and solar panels. However, these can produce considerable amounts of Co2 in their implementation and manufacturing process and do not undo any of the damage already done.

Trees are the best way to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, through photosynthesis.

Reforestation is also the most cost-effective means of offsetting carbon emissions. Each of the fast-growing trees takes about 25kg of CO2 from the atmosphere each year for at least 40 years - that equates to the absorption of 1 ton of CO2 over its lifetime!

Planting all of the same type of tree for carbon sequestration is not sustainable. All the trees would absorb and replace the same nutrients from the ground meaning that they are unable to survive effectively for long, and don't provide any other benefits or resources.

We wouldn't plant any less than 10 different types of indigenous trees in open areas, all of which benefit each others health and nutrient levels etc helping the sequestration rate. This way they all suck nutrients from different levels underground, depending on their root length and similarly, replenish different nutrients every autumn when the leaves fall.

The Eucalyptus tree for example coppices (grows back two stems for every one which is cut) meaning that through its lifetime it can absorb several times the carbon other trees would. As trees grow fastest during their first few years, cutting every 3 - 4 years would maintain the tree's optimum growth rate and therefore absorb the maximum amount of CO2. This would also provide the most natural resources for sale or personal use.

Furthermore, due to the climate and more specifically the amount of sunlight, other trees can absorb up to three times the carbon than from those trees in non-tropical climates, a proven fact shown by research from NASA.

Through photosynthesis, trees take CO2 out of the air by incorporating it into biomass and at the same time, release oxygen into the atmosphere.

Trees are an accepted form of Carbon Offsettting by the Kyoto Protocol and all tree planting projects comply with UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Climate Control Convention).

A proven fact shown by research from NASA is that trees planted in developing countries of the tropics generally sequester up to three times as much CO2 as those elsewhere. They say trees noticeably grow faster now than they have previously, due to the higher concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere.

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