Pictorial Offset Corporation, Carlstadt, NJ, has begun planting a forest of over 5,000 native oak and pine trees to reduce its carbon-emission footprint on the planet to zero.

The company reports it is the first printing company in the world to become carbon neutral and to counter-balance its generation of CO2 emissions—tied to global warming—through the Conservation Fund’s Go Zero Program. The fund proposes to ‘zero-out’ the specific CO2 emissions of Pictorial Offset by planting the trees in the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will verify that the trees have been planted and will manage the lands to ensure that the trees will live 100 years and absorb 6,319 tons of carbon dioxide per year.

The newly created forestlands will not only combat climate change, but will also provide an important habitat for Atlantic Brant, Bald Eagle, the American Black Duck and a wide variety of water birds and other wildlife. www.pictorialoffset.com, www.conservationfund.org