Give Trees a Second Chance in Second Life
The YouTube video above is a very cool way to leverage the expressive capabilities of the virtual world of Second Life, if you ask me. It describes the Second Chance Trees reforestation project, which was designed and built out by social media communications company Converseon, in partnership with Plant-It 2020, a non-profit whose business it is to plant and maintain indigenous trees around the world. For each virtual tree planted »on Second Chance Trees island« in Second Life (at a cost of L$300, or about US$1), Plant-It will plant one tree in the real world. Now, the Second Chance Trees project has a chance to be funded to the tune of one to five million dollars (and plant a corresponding number of real-world trees) through the American Express Members Project, where Second Chance Trees has made it into the round of 50 finalists. Vote for the project if you dig what you see.
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Ummm…I don’t claim to be a botanist or anything, but did I seriously see a tree in that video named “Golden Shower”???
That’s awesome. I just went and bought 15 trees! This is gonna be a regular stop for me, I think.
@David… Yup, sure did :)
Hey,
congratulation to the project!
Did you knew, FORCE SUNRISE did a similar project?
It’s called
REALEAF - Make your avatar carbon neutral
and it’s aim is, to neutralize the energy, caused by surfing in Second Life! If you buy a virtual leaf at
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Metaversum%20B/82/83/22?img=http://www.forcesunrise.com/images/realeaf_slurl.png
you can watch your personalized leaf, with your name on it, grow. Each sold leaf stands for a real tree and carbon-neutral Second Life living.
you can also check
http://www.forcesunrise.com/en/realeaf/
to get more info about the calculation of the carbon emission.
Also your name will be listed on this website, if you bought a leaf and thereby planted a tree!
Support REALEAF in Second Life to reforest in Real Life!!!
Greetz,
Eena
Bye the way: No golden showers at that island!!!! :)
Hi Eena,
right great Project REALEAF (and great name!). I bought several leafs!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9otz-3AcWo
Great ideas. I hope people support both. One thing to know is that a Golden Shower is indeed a tropical tree and in fact the national tree of thailand. It’s also known as Indian laburnum Cassia fistula. It is native to southern Asia, from southern Pakistan east through India to Myanmar and south to Sri Lanka.
Thanks for all your support everyone!
Voting closes in 48 hours so if you plan to vote please do so straight away!
There has been one small problem though, that may have confused some SLers trying to support us.
There is another project with a confusingly similar name, it’s also an extremely worthy cause that aims to plant a millions trees, but unlike ours doesn’t aim to educate people through Second Life as it does so.
If you have voted, or plan to vote, please check that your vote went to the project titled ‘The Virtual Forest Project. One Million Trees. Easy.’ because that’s the only way to support the Second Life initiative.
Cheers!
Um, give griefers a Second Chance, too, eh?
“Virtual Flora Politics or Can’t See the Brand Trees for the Griefer Forest
http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2007/07/tree-politics.html
I knew a simmilar project: http://tree-nation.com/
We need to go plant real TREES. People
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