RTT is starting to prune the five-and-a-half-year-old Klinkii trees in the Superior Nut Company Carbon-Offest Forest #5. As an initial test, RTT’s forester pruned 20 of the trees with a saw. The cuttings can be seen on the forest floor, below. RTT’s aim is to prune the trees without damaging their bark. This is important [...]
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1 Sep
Measuring Carbon Sequestration
In the photo below, staff from Reforest The Tropics, Inc., make measurements on some 8-year old trees in Costa Rica. The worker is measuring the upper diameters of these Chancho trees to be able to accurately calculate their form class, volume and carbon content. These trees are due for thinning in October, 2008. The RTT [...]
25 Aug
Balance the CO2 Emissions of Your Automobile!
RTT can help make your vehicle carbon-balanced! RTT can offset the CO2 emissions of your vehicle by planting trees in Costa Rica. Provided below are cost estimates for vehicle carbon offsets (please contact us for information tailored to your particular vehicle and usage): Hybrid car (average weekly consumption of 5 gallons of gasoline): $500 Standard [...]
25 Apr
Curtis Packaging Corp. and RTT Featured in Hartford Courant
The Hartford Courant featured Reforest the Tropics and one of our new partners, Curtis Packaging Corp., in a recent article entitled “Firm Donates Money to Plant Trees, Offset Its Carbon Dioxide.” The full article is here. The correspondent described the carbon offset project between Curtis Packaging and RTT as follows: Don Droppo Jr. joined the [...]
26 Jun
A Carbon-Neutral Wedding Gift
The New London Day newspaper today published this article featuring Reforest the Tropics’ carbon-offset wedding gift program. Know a “green” bride & groom who might be interested in participating in this exciting program? Let us know!
8 Jun
Superior Nut Company Carbon-Offset Forest #4
A VIEW ON JUNE 4, 2007 OF SUPERIOR #4 CARBON-OFFSET FOREST JUST AFTER THE LINES OF TREES HAVE BEEN CLEANED This 1-year, 10-month old forest, a mixture of Klinkii and Mahogany trees, has just been cleaned by the crew of the participating Tournon farm. In the foreground are examples of these two species of fast-growing [...]
15 May
RTT Program Summary
REFOREST THE TROPICS, INC. (RTT) Synopsis: RTT manages U.S. CO2 emissions through carbon sequestration and long-term storage in tropical farm reforestation projects. Reforesting pastures in the tropics to sequester and store U.S. carbon emissions Brazil converted 9,170 square miles of tropical forest to pastures for meat exports in 2003 (April, 2004 issue of The Economist). [...]
15 May
About Reforest the Tropics
Reforest the Tropics, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to sustainable development and the mitigation of global warming through carbon sequestration in tropical farm forests.
