Dell Offers Virtual Saplings For Earth Day

theodp writes "The expansion of Dell's Plant a Tree for Me program into Second Life has the Silicon Valley Sleuth wondering if this represents a new low in Earth Day marketing tie-ins. You may wonder, too, after reading Dell's invitation to its Earth Day Party at Dell Island in SL ('get your own tree sapling to plant in Second Life!')."

Plant a real tree

[rackrent]

Join the National Arbor Day Foundation [arborday.org] and they'll send you 10 living saplings for cheap (10-15 bucks).

Of course, that means that people might have to get outside once in a while.

Online Ordering Real Saplings Planted?

[Doc Ruby]

Is there a service which lets me click to plant a real tree somewhere on the real Earth?

I'd love to see a service which calculates the CO2 impact of, say, an email server (and its own operations), and orders trees planted to offset that CO2 by the amount trees consume during that time.

People could get periodic reports of their "email pollution" and the trees they've planted to balance it. With an offer to buy more trees to offset the rest of the Greenhouse pollution we generate, including writing and reading this message.