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How You Can Help Us
Appeal Letter from Carol Kinsey Dear Friends, 
In 1994 I first asked for your support to save the endangered Chitwan ecosystem, central among the richly diverse forests at the foot of the Himalayas in Nepal. Since 1950, over 40% of these forests have been cleared for their valuable timber, fuel, for settlement and agriculture. Misguided policies for malaria eradication hastened deforestation. 
From our 'ground-breaking' tree planting to establishing community environmental trust endowments, all that we do reinforces a self-reliant confidence that our progress need not come at the price of our invaluable natural heritage. Helping SeedTree means discussing these problems with others and thinking about how we are trying to correct them. It means being proud to make a difference large or small. A few dollars stretches a long way in developing countries. For example: 
You and SeedTree can make a difference. Your support encourages us: SeedTree and all who participate in and benefit from our programs. We are sincerely grateful to see people with such differing resources: financial or laborious, donor and doer partners, working through SeedTree to resourcefully to protect and renew our precious natural heritage. Much remains to do; please join in and contribute as you are able. Sincerely: Carol Kamala Kinsey, Executive Director ~ Send your tax deductible contribution to ~ SeedTree227 West Cape Jellison Road Stockton Springs, ME 04981, USAor ~ Donate online ~By using ~ Recycle your empty printer ink cartridges ~ SeedTree will receive up to $4.00 for every empty printer ink cartridge you send in at no postal charge to you. Phone Empties4cash at 800-456-4320 and ask for supplies to be credited to the SeedTree account #38953. Ask for a prepaid baggie that holds 1 to 5 cartridges or a prepaid box that holds up to 50 or 100 cartridges. When these prepaid mailers are received, the company will credit SeedTree. ~ Help when you use Goodsearch for your internet searches and shopping. ~ Goodsearch is the search engine with a unique social mission. It's powered by Yahoo, so you get the same great search results. We donate 50% of advertising revenue to the nonprofits and schools selected by our users. Now you and your supporters can make a difference in the lives of many people, simply by changing the way you search the Internet! ~ Support our sponsors ~ Over 30% of Nepalese villagers live on less than $1 per day and depend on the already diminishing forests for fuel, timber, food and medicines. Between 1950 and 1980, 40% of the forests of the Himalayan Watershed were lost. This ecosystem shelters a great diversity of species including tigers, rhinos, and 1.3 billion people downstream. SEEDTREE works with youth, women, and farmers, calling upon their knowledge of indigenous forest species and their interest in self-preservation, to improve the environment. WIth their help, SEEDTREE will restore and enrich threatened forests with cost-effective education, training, and direct action. These programs include planting over 3.5 million native trees, supplying water, latrines, biogas plants, and Improved Cooking Stoves, which are less toxic and more fuel efficient. Through workshops and night courses, SEEDTREE is teaching villagers how to preserve and enhance their forests, practice fuel efficiency, and use micro-credit. Working Assets sets a standard for ecolgically responsible business practice by planting 17 trees for every ton of paper used. Working Assets Funding Service has been a major supporter through their tree-planting partnership for over a decade, and in 2006 donated $3000 to SeedTree to support the planting of 24,000 trees. Holland and Foley Architecture, LLC. 232 Beech Hill Rd., Northport, ME 04849, phone: 207-338-9869 fax: 207-338-9859 email: contact@hollandandfoley.com
These architects specialize in designing environmentally-responsible, high-quality buildings to minimize impacts on the Earth. We believe buildings should provide comfortable, healthy, beautiful, practical and sustainable settings for people to live in. |
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