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Getting on board the tree planting bandwagon

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  Here are a couple of very encouraging news stories: 1. YouTube stars raise over $6m to plant trees around the world : According to The Guardian a group of over 600 popular contributors to YouTube have been raising money to plant trees. Twenty million trees! This is all part of a campaign called the #TeamTrees project. The project aims to raise up to twenty million dollars and plant twenty million trees. 2. Elon Musk donates $1 million to plant trees : And one of the big contributors to that 'twenty million tree' project will be electric car developer, Elon Musk. Of course Musk also contributes a lot to greenhouse gases too, with his Space-X, space exploration program. Perhaps his donation will help in part to compensate for the Space-X activities. READ THE WHOLE STORIES ==> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/oct/29/youtube-stars-fundraise-plant-trees-around-the-world and https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/29/20939016/elon-musk-mrbeast-tree-don...