THE HOME IS THE FASTEST AND BEST PLACE TO OFFSET CARBON EMISSIONS, URBAN FORESTS ARE MORE EFFICIENT THAN OTHER FORESTS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD...

• One Forest Tree offsets 48 lbs of carbon each year. This depending on species, size, compaction of an acre in the forest. While one Urban Forest Tree offsets approximately 720 lb of carbon each year. This does not depending on species as much as size.
• Did you know that the 90% of lumber companies reforest the areas they cut down?  They build fast growth forests in order to cut them down again and not have to go into new areas to cut old trees. This is because of laws made by Congress and different states.
• Most forests that have been cut down at one time in the United States have either been reforested or are not able to be reforested.
• Most offsetting companies around the world, reforest in third world countries’ forest where the trees don’t help offset the area the sponsors are concerned about.
• Example of Donation Problems: John sees a problem with his carbon output when he sees the smog in his city. He looks online and pays to offset his carbon output.  That company pays a person $0.05 an hour to replant new trees on an acre that costs them $100 to own. This tree offsets 48lbs. of carbon each year. That set of trees sits in an area thousands of miles away from carbon concerned areas and does nothing for John's city.
• Example of Donation Solution: John sees a problem with his carbon output when he sees the smog in his city. He looks online and pays CarbonBlueprint.org to offset his carbon output.  We grow our own trees in a nursery and plant them in urban areas, increasing the Urban Forests.  We plant trees around needy people homes and offset 720 lbs of CO2 with a single tree each tree. These trees sit in the middle of the problem solving the carbon/pollution problem.
• 1 Urban Forest Tree, shading your house, can equal an offset of as much as 15 trees in a forest. Each tree offsets about 48 lb of carbon a year. 1 Urban Tree, times (equal to) 15 forest trees, times (each tree produces) 48 lbs of carbon a year. So one Urban Forest Tree can help offset 720 lbs of CO2.
• An average single person in the U.S. produces 2.3 tons of CO2 (4600 lbs.) each year. So there is a need to plant 6.8 trees per person in the United States. Those 7 trees then produce enough carbon offsets each year to sustain that one person the rest of his life. A household of 4 would need to produce 28 Urban Forest Trees to offset their lifestyle for the lifetime of a tree or 50+ years.