Protecting Our Environment

The Rainforest Site is a phenomenal website which was launched in May 2000 to help preserve the world's rainforest.

The site has various partner organizations that preserve rainforest land in several locations across the world including Peru, Mexico, Ecuador and Paraguay.

Supporters all across the world visit the Rainforest Site every day to click help with this ecological need to preserve the rainforests. Over 5,650 acres of endangered land were persevered in the very first year of operation.

Tim Kunin and Greg Hesterberg own and operate the Rainforest Site. They are co-owners of CharityUSA.com which is the parent company of the GreaterGood Network. They have been long-time friends and environmental activist and decided to harness the power of the internet to develop this very innovative and effective "click to give" concept.

GreaterGood.org distributes 100% of the funds received through clicks and donations directly to their partner charities. It is a charitable organization which devotes itself to helping people in need (especially women and children), abandoned animals and protecting the environment.

On average, over 35,500 individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the green "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button. To date, more than 150 million visitors have preserved more than 40,500 acres of land.

In 2010, visitor clicks funded the preservation and protection of 455,029,507 square feet of rainforest and the habitats of tens of thousands of plant and animal species across ten thousand acres of land.

In addition to clicking the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button, visitors can help save additional rainforest habitat by shopping at the The Rainforest Site store.

In case you have doubts that The Rainforest Site is legitimate, you can visit the Wikipedia Site or contact their charitable partners directly:

- The Nature Conservancy
- The Rainforest Conservation Fund
- World Land Trust-US
- Rainforest2Reef

Photo Credit (Top-Right): AllPosters.com - Sol Duc Rainforest, Washington, USA
Photo Credit (Bottom-Left): AllPosters.com - Rainforest, Queensland, Australia

Tim Kunin is an individual who has a deep interest in reaching out and helping the needy, especially children, women and abandoned animals. He has worked towards raising funds to help these causes in innovative ways.

He has traveled extensively to visit charity partners and purchase some of the fair-trade products available on the Hunger Site. He has been involved in protecting the environmental in many ways be it hiking, canoeing or walking for causes.

Travels have taken Tim to Canada, South America, Africa, Europe, Middle East and Asia. Tim has purchased unique products in each of these places which can be purchased from the Hunger Site stores.

Greg Hesterberg ran a successful publishing firm, SGI Publications for two decades. During his college years, he was chairman of MaryPIRG and PIRGIM which are consumer and environmental organizations. One of Greg's passions is finding innovative ways to make the world a better place.

Greg is co-owner of CharityUSA.com which is the parent company of the GreaterGood Network, a charitable organization which helps people in need, rescuing animals and protecting the environment. He adopted two sister kittens in 2007 named Callie and Chloe, as well as their younger brother, Casey.

Supporters visit the site and click everyday on the green "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button. These clicks are recorded by their servers and a Thank You page is displayed after each click displaying ads from their site sponsors.

You don't need to click on the ads and there is no cost to you. 100% of the ad revenue generated through clicks is directed to the Rainforest Site charitable partners. The more people click, the endangered habitat is protected.

All the clicks from supporters are tabulated and then site sponsors are billed accordingly for the appropriate amount. The funds generated are then distributed to the charitable partners some of which are The Nature Conservancy, The Rainforest Conservation Fund, World Land Trust-US, and Rainforest2Reef.

Supporters can click once daily, every day of the year at the Rainforest Site. An internal system is set up to monitor one click per supporter, per calendar day. If you click multiple times in one day, only one click will count.

There are different ways you can help The Rainforest Site, as mentioned below:

- You can visit this lens daily and click on the above banner;
- You can link to The Rainforest Site via social medial sites (see below);
- You can visit The Rainforest Site; and
- You can sign-up for a daily email reminder to click daily by CLICKING HERE.

Link to the Rainforest Site
If you are on social networks, you can become a Friend or a Fan. Together, we can spread the word on how to protect our environment with each and every click.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheRainforestSite
My Space: http://www.myspace.com/therainforestsite
Twitter: http://twitter.com/rainforestsite

You can share this with others by using the free e-card program. While The Rainforest Site encourages you to pass along the message of The Rainforest Site, they respectfully request that people do not send unsolicited messages promoting The Rainforest Site to people they do not know or post inappropriately to newsgroups or in other places.

Anything regarded as unsolicited e-mail (spam) will not help this cause but, in fact, will hurt it. Unsolicited e-mail can alienate people who might otherwise visit The Rainforest Site and help protect rainforests.

The Rainforest Site is one of sites in the growing GreaterGood Network of cause-related sites, which includes The Hunger Site, The Breast Cancer Site, The Child Healthcare Site, The Literacy Site, and The Animal Rescue Site. Anyone with access to internet is empowered to make a real difference by visiting these do-good sites.

Each site is focused on a specific need and allows supporters to benefit leading charities with simple, everyday online actions such as clicking to give and shopping to give more. That goodwill translates to funding for established nonprofit organizations that implement vital programs and initiatives.

In case you want to help further support the above causes, click the banner below:

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Info Research Source Credit: The Rainforest Site
Updated: May 26, 2012