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Facebook users are funding rainforest preservation in Costa Rica by building gardens on each other's profile home pages. When a Facebook user installs the (Lil) Green Patch application on his or her profile, a small garden appears on the profile's home page. That user can then send plants that will appear in the gardens of friends who also have installed (Lil) Green Patch on their profiles. Anyone using the application sees ads, and an undisclosed portion of the revenue from those advertisers is donated to The Nature Conservancy, a land-conservation organization. Sending 10 plants raises enough money to save one square foot of rainforest in Costa Rica, through the organization's Adopt an Acre program. In the first quarter of this year, (Lil) Green Patch users funded more than $15,000 in donations, enough to save more than 13.6 million square feet of rainforest.
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