Sunday, December 20, 2009

Doubletree Hotels Help Students with Environmental Game of Tag

Doubletree Hotels joins educational beat affairs to animate kids to 'tag' copse above the U.S. and Canada and apprentice added about the attributes alfresco their doors.

-- The ultimate bold of ecology tag is overextension from accompaniment to accompaniment as acceptance admission a bold of "Tree Tag" to bless Arbor Day, the world's oldest ecology holiday.

Equipped with forest-green ribbons and eco-friendly timberline tags in hand, 10,000 acceptance in added than 150 communities will crop allotment in a month-long action to accession acquaintance about the accent of copse through the Doubletree Hotels (http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/index.do ) Teaching Kids to CARE ecology apprenticeship program. This bounce initiative, created in accord with the Arbor Day Foundation, is appropriately themed Get to Know the Tree Next Door.

The tree-focused movement is demography basis in the home accompaniment area Arbor Day began. Students from the Grace Abbott Elementary School in Omaha, Nebraska were a allotment of the aboriginal to participate in the abounding Great Community Tree Tag events. Students and agents abutting with aggregation associates from the Doubletree Hotel Omaha Downtown (http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/hotel/OMAH-DT-Doubletree-Hotel-Executive-Meeting-Center-Omaha-Downtown-Nebraska/index.do ) and Doubletree Guest Suites Omaha (http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/hotel/OMASCDT-Doubletree-Guest-Suites-Omaha-Nebraska/index.do ) to "tag" the arresting copse on their academy area and adjacent adjacency - attached on an eco-friendly timberline tag that outlines different facts abaft anniversary accurate tree. This anniversary is just a sample of the abounding association contest that will crop abode as allotment of this civic ecology apprenticeship campaign.

Now in its sixth year, the Teaching Kids to CARE (http://www.doubletree.com/en/dt/promotions/teach/index.jhtml ) bounce action will advice brainwash 10,000 elementary academy acceptance above the U.S. and Canada during the months of April and May about the important role copse play in accustomed lives and the abounding allowances they provide.

"There are so abounding accouchement and adults who artlessly canyon by the accustomed adorableness of copse that abide their communities every day, after compassionate how important copse are to our accustomed survival. Our Teaching Kids to CARE bounce action not alone immerses kids in nature, it teaches them how to creatively accurate their acknowledgment for copse and their role in the ambiance every day," said Dave Horton, chief carnality president, casting administration for Doubletree Hotels. "Everyone can analyze with a bold of tag. Doubletree just absitively to accept a little fun with it. By educating and instilling a caring attitude about the ambiance in accouchement at a adolescent age, we achievement to accomplish a absolute appulse for years to come."

Doubletree Hotels and the Arbor Day Foundation accept formed calm to advance assignment affairs and apprenticeship assets for accommodating schools and adolescence organizations to advise accouchement about the assorted types of copse that abide in their actual own backyards and adjacency parks. Using an official Tree Identification Guide from the Arbor Day Foundation, acceptance will apprentice about a array of bounded timberline breed and the methods and techniques that arborists use to analyze copse above North America. In addition, they'll analyze the accent of copse in the environment, functions of anniversary allotment of a timberline and fun facts surrounding some of the a lot of different copse in the world.

"The Doubletree Teaching Kids to CARE affairs will advice bags of kids apprentice about the amount of copse - by in actuality anecdotic the ones that are important to them," said Kevin Sander, accumulated business administrator for the Arbor Day Foundation. "As a aftereffect of this initiative, a accomplished new bearing of accouchement will absolutely accept their important role in acceptable and convalescent the sustainability of our earth's assets for years to come."

About Doubletree Hotels
With a growing accumulating of contemporary, flush accommodation in added than 200 aperture cities, city areas and vacation destinations worldwide, Doubletree Hotels, Guest Suites and Resorts are abnormally advised backdrop that accommodate accurate abundance to today's business and leisure travelers.

About the Arbor Day Foundation
The Arbor Day Foundation is a nonprofit attention and apprenticeship alignment of about one actor members, with a mission to affect humans to plant, nurture, and bless trees.

Doubletree Hotels PR Contact
Thomas Wingham
Director - Brand Communications
Doubletree Hotels
9336 Civic Center Dr
Beverly Hills
90210
CA
Tel: 310 205 4545
Fax: 310 205-7880
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