Benefits of planting a tree

• Trees offer many environmental benefits.
  
• Trees reduce the urban heat island effect through evaporative cooling and reducing the amount of sunlight that reaches parking lots and buildings. This is especially true in areas with large impervious surfaces, such as parking lots of stores and industrial complexes.
  
• Trees improve our air quality by filtering harmful dust and pollutants such as ozone, carbon monoxide, and sulfur dioxide from the air we breathe.
  
• Trees give off oxygen that we need to breathe.

"The Lorax Movie"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU7M9J-BV8c