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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. are working in partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation to launch an aggressive campaign to encourage sustainability and tree planting at Historically Black Colleges and Universities across the country.

Print a Forest has launched a partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation that relies on innovative software to plant one tree for every 100 pages printed. To participate in the program, interested users must first download the free and easy-to-use Print a Forest software.

AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, a three-year partner of the Arbor Day Foundation, is encouraging its member campuses across the country to plant trees this spring.

The Alabama Tree Recovery Campaign announced the distribution of thousands of trees to residents at an event this morning in Tuscaloosa as part of an effort to reforest the state's communities damaged in the April 2011 tornados. First Lady Dianne Bentley and Mayor Walter Maddox joined Assistant State Forester Patrick Glass and the Arbor Day Foundation's Dan Lambe in announcing the 16 North Alabama communities that will receive 30,000 trees this month in the first phase of this campaign.