Second Chance Trees, a joint collaboration between the nonprofit organization Plant-It 2020 and a social media marketing group called Converseon, has created an island in Second Life that allows you to buy and plant one of 10 endangered species of trees. Each tree costs 300 Lindens, which is equivalent to $1.50 in real life and proceeds will go to planting a real tree in exchange for each virtual tree planted. Of course, if you really wanted to donate to planting trees in real life, it only costs one dollar in the real world. Second Life mainly appeals to adult gamers, but maybe it is a good attempt to attract some attention from computer geeks who are too busy gaming and are not aware of global warming. Since Second Life doesn’t have cars(I don’t think) and people just fly around, there is a lot less CO2 in the Second Life air, but having more trees will help prevent global warming in Second Life because if our planet gets messed up, at least we will have the virtual world in Second Life to enjoy ourselves in right?

via Treehugger