Celestial Seasonings Plants Trees

Do you remember the first time you opened a Celestial Seasonings box?  Were you confused?  Amazed or Annoyed?  I for one was, baffled.  Where were the cute little individual tea packets?  When I expressed my annoyance to Dean, he said something along the lines of “It’s more environmentally friendly!”  Of course!  How did I oversee that?  It was brilliant.  Celestial Seasonings puts all their individual tea sachets into a wax packaging to prevent waste from the strings and cute little tags that many companies have.

I am a huge environmentalist and always have been since I was a little kid.  I always felt there was something “wrong” with wasting paper, cutting down trees and polluting.  Those WWF commercials in the 1990s of the evil industrialist cutting down all the trees in the world really made a huge impact on my impressionable psyche.  Needless to say, I love it when companies choose to give back to the community or in this case, the world, instead of always looking at the bottom line.

Recently Celestial Seasonings partnered with the non-profit organization Trees for the Future to support the planting of trees in developing countries. If you visit Celestial Seasonings from now until March 31, 2009 you can plant a virtual tree on their website that Celestial Seasonings will then turn into reality. As of this posting I just planeted the 1960th tree!  Once you plant your tree Celestial Seasonings sends a cute little em-mail saying
“Your tree will help remove approximately 50 pounds of harmful carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year.” If you are wondering why planting trees is so important in developing countries.  I encourage you to visit the Trees for the Future link above for more information.  Also note that

“For every box of tea you buy between January 1 and March 31, Celestial Seasonings will sponsor the planting of trees all around the world—up to one million trees in all”

Yay drink tea and save the environment.  Celestial Seasonings teas are pretty cheap and can be easily purchased at any local supermarkets, even Wal-mart carries them.

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