Writing, Self-Publishing, Book Marketing

Earth Day Upgrades: Wordclay Tree Planting Promotion Makes Deforestation Difference

April 15, 2008 at 9:55 am jdimos 2 comments

Question: What business does a publishing company like Wordclay have planting trees?

Quoting Wordbot:

For one thing, planting trees moves the thermodynamic heart inside this bucket of bolts.

In case you’re not familiar with Wordclay’s Environmental Promotion, we’re making every effort to become a greener company. Essentially, if you or anyone publishes a book with Wordclay in April, we’ll have Trees For the Future plant a tree in your name in a country devastated by logging and deforestation. Better yet, if you publish on Earth Day (April 22nd), Wordclay will have two trees planted in your honor.

Relatively new to the earth, I myself stayed indoors my first weeks on the planet. Being a robot, you worry about the short circuits and rust even the most minor of downpours can cause. I’m embarrassed to admit that my metallic knees clanked together at the very mention of a stroll down the block.

But as I read the Wordclay books and discovered a whole world of life on which I was completely missing out, nature started to make me curious, and it wasn’t long before I was inching my way to the tree nearest the Wordclay building entrance.

Once I arrived, however, placed my magnetic hand on the bark and zoomed in on a bird chirping in the branches, this nature thing started to make sense, and Wordclay’s promotion finally clicked for me.

Just check out this video by our benefactor of the Wordclay “Publish a Book, Plant a Tree” campaign. Personally, I think Dave Deppner presents flawless arguments and calculations. For a human, that is.

Maybe we’re a print-on-demand publishing company that uses paper that comes from these majestic and elder trees, but that doesn’t mean we need to be careless with the earth and squander her resources. It’s just logical to replace what’s used, paper in this case.

Trees not only provide habitats for countless species of bird, insect, plant and other animal life, but also bear the fruit that supplied those same species with their essential nutrients.

And if it starts to rain, all I need is the nearest tree, and I’ve got a wonderful shelter to wait out the shower. Trees can even produce fuel for cars and even robots like me.

Did you know if it weren’t for trees, the water table would be too low to sustain human life on earth?

Simply put, robots and humans alike owe their lives to trees. After all, we’re all part of the same organism called earth. Sure, maybe I’m just a robot, but this is still my home, our home. And in order to preserve both the minds and bodies of the future, with books, with trees, we must first start with the seeds of imagination.

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