Latest United Nations Billion Tree Campaign Stories
CHANGZHOU, China, April 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Trina Solar Limited (NYSE:TSL) ("Trina Solar" or "the Company") announced that it will partner with the Plant-for-the-Planet Children's Initiative to offset the carbon emissions of the Lotus F1 Team single seaters, the Formula 1 racing team it sponsors. Trina Solar intends to plant 9,000 trees a year for the next three years, or a total of 27,000 trees. The carbon offset benefit from the trees is estimated as equivalent...
NEW YORK, June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- In recognition of UN World Environment Day, Avon Products Inc. (NYSE: AVP) today announced that it will plant two million trees to restore the Atlantic Rainforest in South America, one of the most critically endangered ecosystems in the world. This commitment is part of the company's Hello Green Tomorrow Campaign, announced in mid-March, to unleash the power of its woman-to-woman network of 6.2 million Avon Representatives and 300 million customers...
NEW YORK, March 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Avon Products Inc. (NYSE: AVP) today announced the launch of a global environmental mobilization in more than 65 countries and a $1 million contribution to The Nature Conservancy to launch the new Hello Green Tomorrow initiative, a unique globally coordinated grassroots effort. The mission of Hello Green Tomorrow is to empower a women's environmental movement, launching initially with Avon's donation to replant 1 million trees in the Atlantic...
Mokugift fosters global environmental solidarity by making it easy and rewarding to join celebrities in planting trees, for $1 apiece, through online 'gifting.' SAN FRANCISCO, June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Inspired in part by pop culture heroes from an earlier era who used music and mass media to spawn social and political activism, mokugift, through its Artists and Athletes Program, is leveraging the latest Internet technology to rally support for an issue of the utmost urgency: combating...
ANSE MARCEL, St Martin, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Carlson Hotels Worldwide(R) today opened the 1,000th hotel in its worldwide portfolio, the Radisson St Martin Resort, Marina & Spa (http://www.radisson.com/stmartin), dedicating the achievement of this growth landmark to a global initiative of environmental sustainability and responsible business. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081216/AQTU501) At opening ceremonies here today, top company officials joined...
