Cool Earth is an organization that is super-charging everyone's efforts to halt climate change[1]. Cool Earth helps to protect the world's most endangered pieces of rainforest, and, in doing so, combats global warming, protects ecosystems and provides sustainable jobs for local people.
Rainforest destruction is a considerable contributor to climate change. The simple idea behind Cool Earth is that rainforests are worth much more to the human race left standing, helping to cool the planet, than they are cut down for timber or if burned to clear land for cattle ranching.
1. Moutinho and Schwartzman; Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change. 2005. Amazon Institute for Environmental Research Chapter 10. http://www.edf.org/documents/4930_TropicalDeforestation_and_ClimateChange.pdf