Status: Archived
Plant a Book
Planting trees with a portion of book revenues
Summary
Plant a Book was a simple initiative: Designed as an author-led movement, where authors themselves plant trees. By pledging to contribute a percentage of their book revenues, authors might super-charge the sustainability cycle. Trees get planted, books get imagined. Trees get harvested, books get made, and sold. Authors plant more trees.The intention was to unite the story-makers of our time to sustain literature while bettering the planet in a practical way.
How Plant a Book got started
I started Plant a Book at the same time as launching my debut novel Canopy Harvest. I wanted to celebrate the release and start a sustainable project to work with the publishing I intended to do. Around the time I was writing the novel I became fascinated with Permaculture – the idea that there were ways we could design our lives to be much more sustainable, (for ourselves and our environment, in reality they’re one in the same).
What happened to Plant a Book?
For now Plant a Book is an archived project. I think there’s a lot of scope for Plant a Book like initiatives, and I hope I see others pick up the mantle. I did plant 200+ fruit and nut trees for that initial flurry of those who bought the book on launch, each of which lives in my first or second food forest. I never got to reach out with a photo as I’d hoped, but the book launch did achieve it’s aim – planting trees for books.
Since then I’ve gone on to plant trees separately to this initiative, with about 1,000 doing well so far, and plans to plant another 5-10 thousand in 2025.
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