Dell's Environmental Challenge

Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Inc., announced a new program on Tuesday. The "Plant a Tree for Me" campaign allows customers to allocate $2 per laptop purchase and $6 per desktop purchase toward planting trees around the world. The trees will be planted in protected areas by environmental groups such as The Conservation Fund. "We're the first global technology company to offset emissions with the electricity of their computers," Dell said.

Large corporations are coming to realize the need for environmental restoration and the support that these efforts are getting from the public. Enterprise Rent-a-Car has also recently begun a tree planting campaign, 50 Million Trees, where 50 million trees will be planted on restoration sites over the next 50 years.

People seem to finally be acknowledging the problems that global warming is causing in our world and trying to do something about it. Planting trees is becoming increasingly popular because trees do so much for the environment. If all of these programs were planting EMIP trees, they would be producing more oxygen, absorbing more carbon dioxide (the most abundant greenhouse gas) and absorbing more nitrogen, phosphorus and other contaminants. Not to mention that EMIP trees grow faster, increasing survival rates and producing habitat, and fruit sooner, producing more food for wildlife and an increased chance of natural reproduction.