Progressive Wednesday

I See Trees of Green: Write

April 18th, 2007 by Progressive Wednesday

Write:

We know you live hectic lives, and so let us help you help others. While we always will encourage you to write letters to the editor of your own, we recognize that this can be a time-consuming and potentially daunting task. So, below you’ll find a letter we’ve written, revised, and vetted over the past week. Feel free to copy, paste, alter, print, sign, fold, envelope, stamp, address, and ship this sucker off to your newspaper of choice.

Dear Editor:

April 27 is Arbor Day, a somewhat forgotten day celebrating trees, and celebrate them we should. Trees are like the lungs of our planet, inhaling carbon dioxide and exhaling oxygen. They clean toxins from the air, and give us better air to breathe.

There are many things we can do to help the population of trees. We can plant trees ourselves — the National Arbor Day Foundation even offers free seedlings for a measly $10 membership fee.

We can help stop the destruction of the rain forests — at EcologyFund.com, folks can make a few simple clicks of the mouse and help save rainforests and the animals thriving in them.

But there’s a third, very easy thing we can all do: we can recycle paper products. I encourage everyone to take another look at this fine newspaper. Learn from its stories. Mourn its obituaries. Chuckle at its comics. Then, my fellow readers, please recycle it.

Sincerely,

You