Go carbon-positive with your Christmas tree

There’s no doubt about it: decorating your Christmas tree and enjoying how it brings holiday cheer to your home is one of the most fun traditions of the holiday season. Unfortunately, this means that each year tens of millions of Christmas trees are cut down, and most are just thrown away come January. Conifers, the quintessential American Christmas tree species, can sequester up to 10 kg of carbon dioxide equivalent per year. But when they’re cut down, they lose their carbon sequestration potential and ability to serve as habitat for local wildlife species.

Consider switching it up this year by having a “Carbon Positive” Christmas with Live Christmas Trees from ServeScape. They’ll deliver the potted tree right to your home, where you can decorate it the same as always. Then after the big day, you can bring your tree outdoors and plant it with the bag of organic compost ServeScape provides and continue to enjoy your tree for many years to come. You can also choose to donate your tree to a local park after the holidays if you don’t have the space to plant it in your own yard.

ServeScape partners with local tree growers to deliver Live Christmas Trees to all metro Atlanta and Athens areas. So not only will you be benefitting the environment by having a live tree, you’ll also be cutting carbon by not purchasing a tree that was shipped from far away.

Shop their Live Christmas Tree Collection. Use CUTCARBON  for free delivery. To see if ServeScape delivers to your house, click here.

Another way you can make your Christmas tree tradition more sustainable is through Trees for Tuition’s Tree for a Tree program, which promises to plant a forever tree for every Christmas tree sold. These are trees designed never to be cut down, so they can serve their carbon-eating, oxygen-producing, greenhouse gas-fighting purpose.