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Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

Rabindranath Tagore

FWP Earth Day Dozen Playlist

If you’re a friend of Favorite World Press, you know we’re tree people. If you’re a first-time visitor—well, hello there, happy to have you—by the way, we’re tree people.

We love trees for their planet-cooling, well-being-enhancing, wildlife-supporting, music-making majesty. And we plant trees and work to protect forests because they provide one of the most effective nature-based solutions to global environmental threats.

Did you know:

• 31% of the world’s land surface is covered by forests,
• 33% of the C02 released from burning fossil fuels is absorbed by forests,
• 75% of the world’s accessible freshwater is provided by forests,
• 80% of all land-dwelling species rely on forests for their survival,
• 1.6 billion people rely on forests for food, water, fuel, and jobs,
• 17% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from deforestation.

Hope for the Planet
Because the world’s forests are major planetary players, they need protection to keep them healthy and intact. But every minute of every day, we’re losing the equivalent of 36 football fields in forest cover. To make up for current levels of annual deforestation, we need to plant an additional 10 billion trees a year.

Planting the right trees in the right place is critical to their survival and reaping their full environmental, social, and economic benefits. That’s why we’re proud to announce that in honor of Earth Day, we’re going global and partnering with the proprietary tree-planting platform Tree-Nation.

As we have for the past three-plus years, FWP will be planting one tree for every print and e-book sold from the Frankie and Peaches: Tales of Total Kindness Series. Through our new partnership with Tree-Nation, we’ll be choosing from 300 different tree species in 39 active reforestation projects in 25 countries on six different continents.

To kick-start our campaign, we’re pitching in on projects in the United States, Brazil, Tanzania, Thailand, India, and Madagascar. Each tree that we plant will be assigned a unique URL so we can track its leafy, green contribution to carbon storage, local communities, and biodiversity—it’s the internet of trees.

See how we grow with Tree-Nation here.

Thank you for helping us help them create a life-sustaining planet.

Wishing you a happy, healthy, hopeful Earth Day!

xo Favorite World Press