Good Morning,
I hope you are reading this from your bed, Bank Holiday Monday and all that.
This Friday, November 1st, I will be launching something new.
(Apologies, that is all I can divulge for now, but I will have a special discount for the newsletter crew next Monday! 🎉)
C’mere to me…
#TeamTrees
With the ambitious goal of planting 20 million trees by 2020
#TeamTrees is a special collaboration from creators all over the internet, particularly from YouTube.
Jimmy Donaldson, better know as ‘MrBeast’, and Mark Rober a former NASA scientist now YouTuber, are the two names who started this project.
The idea came from fans on twitter persistently bringing up the idea and making it go viral.
The pair then assembled a team of creators from all over the internet.
It is remarkable to me that the creators are all in different genres with completely different audiences, Mark and Jimmy are themselves very much polar opposites in the content they produce.
It is a testament to the good cause, that so many got involved out of their own time and have all been using their platforms to release tree-related videos and encourage donation.
It is the first time there has been a collaboration on the YouTube platform at such a scale. After the first full day of launching the project, they had raised over a million dollars to plant a million trees.
Now, after the weekend, that number is over $5 million!
The project is being realised by The Arbor Day Foundation, one of the worlds most respected conservation non-profits.
It will be almost impossible to actually get that many trees planted by 2020, but as Mark pointed out in his video, partners are utilising technologies such as custom made drones to help them plant large areas from the sky.
They are hoping, although still a massive feat, to at least fund the planting of 20 million trees by the end of the year, therefore raising a huge $20 million.
And it is not just like these boys are all talk…
MrBeast himself donated a whopping 100,000 trees ($100,000!).
Alan Walker (the DJ), to spite him, then donated 100,001 trees…
So, MrBeast donated another 100,002 trees…
(to be clear: that is an additional $100,000 just for the craic! so he could have the top donation spot)
Go donate now 👇🏽🌲
teamtrees.org
Smile 😊
This is very funny.
Photography 📷
Think 🤔
The people in Harry Potter rely on their wands for everything, yet no one has a wrist strap.
Profound 🤯🌊
Pizza is a real-time pie chart of how much pizza is left.
Go donate now 👇🏽🌲
teamtrees.org
That’s all for now 🤙🏽
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