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With one easy click every day, you can help save the planet.

Most of us don't think about which website opens when we start our internet browser every morning; it's usually MSN, your internet provider or something similar. But there's a way you can use your first click of the day to help preserve the planet's rainforests.

Make the Rainforest Site, www.therainforestsite.com, the home page you start from every day. Then just click where it says "Click here to give — it's FREE." And with that simple action, you've preserved just over a square meter of the world's rainforests, the lungs of the planet that can absorb back much of the CO2 ‘exhaled' by our burning of fossil fuels.

It's not much, but those square meters add up — over 35,000 people click the site every day, and over 40,000 acres have been preserved so far. If everyone receiving this Green Idea clicked daily, we alone could preserve an area the size of a soccer field every week.

The land is paid for by sponsors who advertise on the Rainforest Site. If you visit, you'll also see similar sites in support of breast cancer, hunger, literacy and more — all causes you can support with the simple click of a mouse.

You can make The Rainforest Site your home page by going to it, then clicking Tools — Internet Options — General — Use current. And — please pass it on to your co-workers, friends and family.

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