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Earth Day Inspiration – Pottery Barn’s Six Million Trees
April 22,
2024 by HFBusiness Staff in Business Strategy, Industry
Doubling down on Pottery’s Barn’s pledge to restore our forests, the family of brands at William’s Sonoma, Inc. is partnering with the Arbor Day Foundation on a mission to plant 6 million trees.
Beginning in January 2021, the partnership began with a pledge to grow 3 million trees, and by April of 2022, they family of brands had doubled the goal to 6 million trees.
By March of 2024, the Family has grown over 5.4 million trees of their total goal.
The Impact By the Numbers:
2.8M Tons of CO2 Absorbed
324K Tons of Air Pollutants Removed
1.86B Gallons of Water Filtered
*Metrics provided by the Arbor Day Foundation based on the 40-year-projected impact of the trees.
You can visit the PotteryBarn.com website to see the Global Reach of the planted trees, including areas where wildfires impacted the Western United States, National Forests in the Midwest, Private Land in the South and Swamps in the Northeast among many other locations; like the Amazon Rainforest, the Cauvery River Basin in India, and Community Forests in the United Kingdom.
Every purchase of indoor wood* from Pottery Barn will plant a tree as well as for every dollar donated.
From Pottery Barn factories to homes, they are dedicated to making a difference for the planet.
*Indoor wood furniture containing at least 80% wood.