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GREEN PROJECTS
& INITIATIVES_____
Every
year we connect at least one release to a project to rise funds
for a specific green campaign doing a partnership with a no-profit
organization. Find below our past initiatives.
2007
"1 Record = 1 Tree" connected to Danny Darko "We
need to wake up! (died in your arms) "
in 2007 Oryx Music Group has donated to the no-profit org "Trees
for the future" an amount necessary to plant a tree in
a specific area of a developing country for every 2 downloads or
1 record sold starting from the 29th of October 2007 (release date
of the vinyl).
Thanks to our donation, Trees
For The Future has planted a grove of 1000 trees in Haiti in honor
of Oryx Music, and issued
us a certification to testify our help. Haiti has experienced severe
problems of deforestation in the last decades; this has ignited
a series of processes that lead a lot of local people to hunger
and poverty (look here
for more infos) and ultimately to the riots that recently overthrown
the haitian goverment. Our little contribution not only helped a
bit this people but contributed to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere
What does a tree has to do with global warming? Easy: A tree absorb
CO2 through chlorophyllian photosynthesis, therefore the more the
trees, the more the CO2 reduction. But what is happening nowadays?
Just the opposite. Trees and forests, especially in developing countries,
are beeing increasingly cutted down for many reasons.
Watch
here what "Trees for the future" does.
Our governments are focusing on reducing fossil energy use and switch
to renewables energies, that's great! But the battle should be fought
on other fronts too. One is the "deforestation". The destruction
of forests, not only increase CO2 in the air, but reduce earth biodiversity
(exctinction of certain species), boost desertification processes
(less food for everyone) and boost natural disasters damages (ex.
flood).
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