Use Your AMEX Card This Week to Win Lots of Trees for SF

Do any SFisters out there have American Express cards? If so, use it this week at participating businesses -- or look for the pretty tree icon at right while out and about, and win our city a boat load of trees. Through October 31, each transaction counts as a vote in American Express' "Roots for the City" competition between eight U.S. cities. San Francisco still has a chance to beat out Los Angeles and Atlanta. We cannot let them win (even though maybe they need more trees than we do, since we are so superiorly green, or are we?)! Each city has already won $100,000 for their participation and tree planting projects, and the grand winner will win $300,000. The City and County of San Francisco's Trees for Tomorrow program plans to use the tree-planting grant to create a tree nursery, education and job-training program for at-risk youth that will establish trees to reforest a 20-block greenbelt on Sunset Boulevard.