Category Archives: Trees Planted

Tally: 529 trees planted

Moon Willow Press likes to balance out book sales with book-making resources. It takes a while for trees to be planted once a donation is made, but so far MWP has helped with the following:

• Proceeds from the sales of The Little Big Town resulted in 260 trees planted by the Alliance for International Reforestation (AIR) in Guatemala. Dr. Anne Motley Hallum spent three weeks in Guatemala, hosting volunteers during the 2010 planting season, and also helped deliver food to villages where residents had lost property during the flooding from Hurricane Agatha. These trees are not used for harvesting by loggers, but for prosperity.
• Proceeds from the sales of Infernal Drums resulted in 242 trees planted by Sustainable Harvest, a partner of Eco-Libris. These trees are being planted in Central America in areas where tropical rainforests have been slashed and burned for farming. Sustainable Harvest also works with farmers to teach them new organic, sustainable techniques of agriculture, including the planting of trees.
• Members whose donations are planting trees: Jed Brody, Morgan Woodbury, Sandra Sponaugle, Alan Woodbury, Randi Derdall, and 22 others (27 trees)!

Moon Willow Press has chosen to donate to Eco-Libris’ tree-planting program in order to help balance out trees from the books we sell. Eco-Libris has three world-planting partners. Trees are planted in developing countries such as Guatemala, Honduras, and Malawi. The reforestation and planting are done along with the collaboration and support of local people living in these communities. The trees planted are all non-invasive.

Planting ecologically appropriate trees reduces CO², fights forest destruction, increases biomass and tree productivity, reduces soil erosion, and gives farmers alternatives. Further economic benefits are:

• Protection of important water resources
• Decreases the chances for natural disasters such as floods
• Improvement of crops: some trees are interplanted with crops to conserve the soil and organically fertilize the crops
• Education for increased awareness of the importance of conserving natural resources
• Additional food and income from fruit trees
• Empowerment for the adoption of sustainable land-use practices

We print at Friesens in Canada, which has a strong environmental commitment. They offer 100% post-consumer and FSC paper stock (all fiber is taken only from sustainably managed forests), and they use vegetable inks and non-hazardous binding glue. Friesens also recycles all paper waste as well as aluminum used in printing plates. For every book printed through Friesens, they offer an eco-audit showing the environmental savings per a title’s print run: how many fully grown trees, gallons of water, pounds of waste, and pounds of greenhouse gases are saved.