<P> The Home Depot has partnered with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency's Ready Georgia campaign, leading both supplies and facility use to this statewide effort to increase emergency preparedness among Georgia's children . The company also provided ready kits and other prizes for an art and essay contest for Georgia elementary school students . </P> <P> In 2005, The Home Depot was among 53 entities that contributed the maximum of $250,000 to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush . </P> <P> The Home Depot has stated on their website that they have a commitment "we continue to lead by example, demonstrating to the world that sustainability business practices are not only possible, they are good for business". The Home Depot introduced a label on nearly 3,000 products in 2007 . The label promotes energy conservation, sustainable forestry and clean water . Home Depot executives said that as the world's - largest buyer of construction material, their company had the power to persuade thousands of suppliers, homebuilders and consumers to follow its lead on environment sustainability . "Who in the world has a chance to have a bigger impact on this sector than Home Depot?" asked Ron Jarvis, vice president for environmental innovation at Home Depot . This program is following The Home Depot's promise in the late 1990s to eliminate the number of sales of lumber from endangered forests in countries including Chile and Indonesia . Home Depot has since worked with environmental groups to create a variety of green programs . For example, Home Depot planted thousands of trees at its headquarters in Atlanta to offset carbon emissions . In 2007, The Home Depot Foundation (the company's charitable foundation) committed to investing $100 million over the next decade to build over 100,000 green affordable homes and plant 3,000,000 trees . </P> <P> Additionally, The Home Depot promotes compact fluorescent light bulbs in its stores . As part of this effort, the company created the largest recycling program in the United States for the bulbs . In March 2013, Home Depot locations in Canada stopped accepting compact fluorescent light bulbs for recycling . </P>

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