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 CleanMyWorld Projects

  THIS IS NOT A 'SET-IT AND FORGET-IT' OPERATION!

We want members that really care about the Environment and Global Warming issues. We want HANDS-ON people who really want to make a difference in the world! When it comes to funding projects, we want YOU to make the decisions! Sure, we have started off by funding one of our pet projects, that we feel strongly about right now, saving the Rainforests around the world, but all future projects will be put to the membership for votes. We are making every attempt to guarantee that no one is able to monopolize the agenda in the selection of, or funding level of future CleanMyWorld projects. The membership gets one vote for each dollar contributed to a maximum of 100 votes per month of membership. As we get more and more project suggestions we will post them on this site. The members will be asked if we should fund the project and if so, how much of funding pool should be allotted to that particular project. Each project and it's funding level will be re-evaluated to make sure it is producing a good return on our investment (offsetting a significant amount of carbon, pollution and greenhouse gasses), and be put to the membership for a vote every six months. YOU ARE IN CONTROL

WE WORK TO SAVE THE RAINFORESTS AROUND THE WORLD

Rainforests are some of the world's most ancient and complex ecosystems. They cover a mere 2% of the Earth, yet more than half of all plant and animal species live there. The rainforest is home to creatures as famous as the jaguar and poison dart frog, as well as lesser-known and even unidentified species.

One LARGE tree absorbs 10 lbs of air pollutants, including 4 lbs of ozone and 3 lbs of particulates. The value of pollutant uptake by the tree is approximately $45 using the local market price of emission reduction credits. Uptake of NOx by the tree is equivalent to NOx emitted by a typical car driven 3,600 miles.

One LARGE tree cleans 330 lbs of CO2 (90 lbs C) from the atmosphere through direct sequestration in the tree's wood. The value of this benefit isabout $5 assuming the California Energy Commission's price of $30/ton. This ONE tree reduces the same amount of atmospheric CO2 as released by a typical car driven 500 miles. Man is destroying thousands of them every hour!

These ecosystems are an amazing resource that is quickly slipping away. The rainforest is where many modern food staples originated, including tomatoes, corn, and chocolate, but we use a mere fraction of the edible plants available there. In addition, one quarter of modern medicines come from plant species that were first used as traditional remedies. Western science has analyzed less than one percent of rainforest plants for medicinal compounds, and the indigenous tribes that use these plants are rapidly disappearing.

To complicate matters more, the rate of species extinction in the rainforest is undeniably high. As the forests are burned for short-term farming, grazed, and harvested for wood and other compounds at an unsustainable rate, we are swiftly losing the very species that may someday provide needed cures or disease-resistant crops. With them, we lose an extraordinary number of unique creatures found nowhere else in the world.

Deforestation accounts for roughly 20 percent of global carbon emissions — and more than 30 percent of emissions from developing countries. Halting deforestation over the next 50 years would protect important habitat while also providing around 15 percent of the carbon-emissions reductions needed to stabilize global temperatures.

Just as an example; Brazil's Amazon rainforest comprises 30% of the world's remaining tropical forests and, besides providing shelter to one tenth of the world's plant and animal species, acts as a significant mechanism (carbon "sink") for removing excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. According to the World Bank, an intact acre of Amazon rainforest sequesters about 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide annually.

Halting deforestation in the next 50 years is possible!

Every dollar you contribute will save
over 1000 square feet of rainforest
somewhere in the world!

* *Facts and figures from: The Rainforest Alliance, World Health Organization, and the Rainforest Foundation.