Articles written by Laurie Marr

Laurie Marr|May 19, 2011

Alcoa launched their Ten Million Trees initiative on Earth Day 2003, the goal being to plant 10 million trees worldwide by 2020. These trees would absorb more than 250,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year during their lifetime. Previous years of the program based out of Alcoa’s Massena Operations have included groups like the Junior Girl Scouts who had been working on obtaining their Eco-Action badges in 2005. They had planted 200 trees (white birch and black walnut) in the Massena c...