At Rain Tees we save trees with tees, but there are hundreds of other ways to save rainforests in your daily life too! Check these out and post your own if you have ways you want to share too.
1. Click and Save
Click on Care2’s homepage and save rainforests every day for free! It’s easy, so come on, get clickin!
2. Use Less Paper
You would be amazed how much paper comes from endangered forests all over the world. Using less paper can help, along with always buying 100% recycled post-consumer waste (PCW) paper whenever possible. Even better is tree-free paper. We like Tree Free Paper. They even have banana paper. Yummy!
3. Plastic and Oil
Cut back big time on the oil and plastic. Petroleum comes from rainforests and extracting it kills people, plants and wildlife. Want more facts on the tragedy? Visit Meeting My Hero and think twice when buying a new high gas guzzling car or any type of plastic product.
4. Cut Back on Eating Cows
Millions of acres of endangered rainforests are cut down to create grazing land for cattle. Turns out many of them die each year of snake bites or other diseases anyways as cows naturally don’t belong in our tropical rainforests. It’s also estimated that for every quarter-pound fast food hamburger that comes from a rainforest cow, 55 square feet of forest is destroyed. Do you know where your burger comes from?
Scooter (pictured above) is a highly endangered baby Mono Titi Monkey from Costa Rica. He was found paralyzed and rescued off a busy road after his mom was electrocuted by a power line. Commercial development in our rainforests is dangerous for monkeys like Scooter, but luckily Scooter is safe and happy now and helping spread awareness all over the world about saving our rainforests!
By
Beth Doane
Rain Tees Founder and Designer