Useful Trees (UTs)All our print work is carbon neutral at no additional cost to you.Green Earth Enterprise provides an opportunity to produce a totally carbon neutral print job by replacing the entire carbon footprint that the job created. Our custom computer software calculates the carbon tonnage produced by each of our jobs from the point a tree is cut down for paper to delivery of the final product. At no additional cost to the client, Green Earth Enterprise neutralizes the carbon emissions of each project by planting Useful Trees.Useful Trees are not likely to be cut down because the value of their fruit, nuts or leaves is worth at least four times more to the planter than the timber itself. In Latin America, the Useful Trees we've planted are not only offsetting the carbon footprint of our printing, but are also generating income for Mayan farmers, increasing the local carbon-based biomass and aiding in the overall economic development of the region. In addition, since 2009, all the trees in The Pyramid Project are being paid for by Green Earth Enterprise. The Pyramid Project provides incentives to small farmers for planting and maintaining Useful Trees.
USEFUL TREES WE PLANT
Avocados are a commercially valuable.
Cacao (Theobroma cacao)
Its seeds are used to make cocoa powder and chocolate.
Calabash Tree (Crescentia)
Has a hard, cannonball-like fruits, which can be hallowed and dried and used as containers.
Coffee (Coffea arabica)
Gourmet coffees are almost exclusively a high-quality, mild variety of coffee like coffea arabica.
Century (Yucca)
Edible parts include fruits, flowers, flowering stems and roots.
Cherimoya (Annona cherimola)
Mark Twain called the cherimoya "the most delicious friut known to man".
Giant Wild Lemon (Citrus limon)
A very popular commercial crop.
Leucaena (Leucaena)
The seeds can be used as beads and the trees have edible fruits.
Loquat aka Japanese Plum
Eriobotrya japonica
A commercial fruit that is a distant relative of the apple.
Macadamia (Macadamia integriffolia or tetraphylla)
The nuts are a valuable food crop.
Moringa (Moringa oleifera)
Exceptionally nutritious vegetables with a variety of potential uses including
treating malnutrition, especially among infants and nursing mothers.
Noni (Morinda citrifolia)
Bears fruit every month throughout the year.Its leaf is used in teas that aid in
digestion and help maintain normal blood sugar levels.It is also rich in
antioxidants.
Palm (Arecaceae or Palmae)
Has great economic important, its products include coconut, oil, dates,
palm syrup, ivory nuts, camauba wax, rattan cane, and raffia.
Sea Grape (Coccoloba uvifera)
The fruit can be used for jam or eaten right off the tree.
Soaptree (Yucca elata)
The leaves are used to make sandals,rope,dental floss,belts,cloth,basket,cords and mats.In times of drought ranchers have used the plant as an emergency food supply for cattle.
Suriname Cherry (Eugenia uniflora)
A very popular fruit enjoyed picked off the tree or made into jam, jelly relish, pickle, juice, vinegar and distilled liquor.
