The young trees, each about 3.5 feet tall in a 1-gallon pot are available for a minimum $10 donation to Trees For Houston, a nonprofit dedicated to planting trees along freeways and streets throughout the city. To aid this fundraising event, Newton’s Nursery is supplying saplings at cost and The Morgan Group, Inc. is donating 150 1-gallon Live Oaks.

“On Earth Day, show the planet you care. Plant a tree!,” said Brooke Summers-Perry, It’s Cool 2 Care founding director. “Trees do more than just beautify neighborhoods. They cool the city in summer by providing shade. They also pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and pump out oxygen,” she noted. “So we’re ‘Lucky’ to have part of the ‘Antidote’ to climate change right here. Trees aren’t the whole answer, but each live oak you plant can be part of the solution for the next hundred years or longer. And because proceeds will benefit Trees For Houston, you’ll be doing twice as much to help save the planet.”

Updated event information can be found at itscool2care.org.

About It’s Cool 2 Care, inc.

It’s Cool 2 Care is a diverse network of caring individuals encouraging and assisting youth to engage in community service and launch entrepreneurial businesses — to develop themselves while making positive impacts on issues and causes they care about.

Antidote

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Hello Lucky (hello-lucky.com) is an eclectic shop featuring artist designed t-shirts, jackets, skirts, and jewelry for guys and gals. It also carries local honey, salve and hot sauce, with a sprinkling of vintage products. A portion of proceeds goes to a non-profit organization, with a different beneficiary each calendar quarter.  

Housed in an old supermarket in the Heights, the lab is a small shop with a big heart.  Owned by brothers David and Fred Zapalc, Blue line is a family venture with something to offer almost everyon.  

Newton Wholesale Nurseries

Newton Wholesale Nurseries (newtonwholesalenurseries.com), 846 West 27th Street in the Heights, sells only to landscape companies and registered businesses. With additional locations in west Houston and Austin, Newton provides annuals, perennials, shrubs, trees, tropicals, hardscape supplies, fertilizers, and chemicals for controlling insects, weeds and fungi.

Trees For Houston, a nonprofit organization, has planted over 300,000 trees and seedlings in the Greater Houston area since 1983. It focuses on preserving existing trees and supporting tree planting along thoroughfares, around schools and in neighborhoods.