Even most music fans don't make a connection between hip-hop and environmentalism. But acclaimed New York rapper Pharoache Monch (pictured above) is helping to provide that link, teaming up with Tajai from California rap group Souls of Mischief, in conjunction with the U.N.-backed Mokugift organization to plan trees all around the Third World. You can read more about this and find out how to participate from this San Franciso Examiner article.