EdenGivesBack: Get Tree Happy for Earth Day #1toy1tree « EdenGivesBack

"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew."

— Marshall McLuhan, 1964

We've had an awesome relationship with Evolved Novelties through the years, especially with regard to our EdenGivesBack community projects. Evolved has stepped up to the plate time and time again to get involved when we're looking for someone to help us help the world around us.

Evolved’s own community-minded project revolves around their vibe, Faith. They believe in breast cancer awareness and a portion of Faith’s proceeds continually support Save the Ta-Tas. Last year, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Evolved and Eden encouraged everyone to raise awareness in ourselves and our loved ones about breast cancer prevention. For every pink toy purchased on Eden for the month of October, EdenFantasys and Evolved donated $1 to the Save the Ta-Tas Foundation.

In support of World AIDS Day, Evolved teamed up with EdenFantasys to celebrate World AIDS Day, and fundraise some dough for the AIDS Service Center of NYC. This time we took our message to Twitter to get people involved. We told everyone that if we got 1000 tweets about World AIDS Day, we'd donate $1000 to AIDS Service Center NYC, and we got quite a few more than 1000!

This time, with Evolved's help, we're saving the environment one toy sale at a time.

From The Nature Conservancy's website:

The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.

We address the most pressing conservation threats at the largest scale. Thanks to the support of our more than 1 million members, we’ve built a tremendous record of success since our founding in 1951:

• We've protected more than 119 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of rivers worldwide — and we operate more than 100 marine conservation projects globally.

• We work in all 50 states and more than 30 countries — protecting habitats from grasslands to coral reefs, from Australia to Alaska to Zambia.

• We address threats to conservation involving climate change, fresh water, oceans, and conservation lands.

Plant a Billion Trees

The Nature Conservancy is the nation's largest environmental nonprofit organization by revenue and assets. It works to protect the environment in more than 30 countries worldwide, protects over 119 million acres of land and 5,000 miles of river and operates more than 100 marine conservation projects globally.

Plant a Billion Trees, a program by The Nature Conservancy, strives to restore and regenerate one million acres of the miles upon miles of land which used to be home to the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The Atlantic Forest is considered one of the world's most endangered rain forests. It has been reduced to just 12 percent of its original size due to urban expansion, illegal logging and exotic plantations, among other things, which has put a considerable strain on the animals, and, some think, the environment on a global scale.

How can we help?

We thought you'd never ask.

The only thing you have to do is shop. Truly.

Pop over to the EdenFantasys website, and check out our line of Evolved Novelties Toys. Decide for yourself which of their lovely toys you simply can’t do without and buy it. Doesn't matter how much or how little it costs. For every Evolved Novelties toy sold on EdenFantasys from April 13th until 12am April 24th, 2012, EdenFantasys and Evolved will donate a tree to The Nature Conservancy's program Plant a Billion Trees!

One toy purchased, one tree planted. It's that simple. Let's get started, eh?