The Nature Conservancy: Plant 5 trees for $5!

I've been meaning for a while now to feature one of the great evironmental charities out there, the Nature Conservancy. But with hurricanes in the Atlantica and, well, hurricanes on Wall Street...I'm just getting around to it. Forgive me, Mother Nature!

In any event, the Nature Conservancy has a great program out there right now called Plant a Billion Trees. This fund drive hopes to reforest Brazil's Atlantic Forest. No, this isn't the Amazon rainforest. This is a strip of forest along the Atlantic that's just 7 percent of what it used to be. It's biodiversity is rivaled only by that of the Amazon. And the golden lion monkey is just darn cute. Even though it's a tamarin and not a monkey per se.

So anyway, check out the campaign, and click here to donate your $5 worth of trees. Mother Nature will thank you for it!