Welcome to Likes 4 Trees... there are 6 ways you can plant trees RIGHT NOW 🌳

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Welcome back, Atlassian Community, to the fourth year of Likes for Trees! 🌳🌳🌳🌳 If this is your first year, welcome! ✨ And if you've been here before, well, you already know how much we love you. 💚  (You can tell I'm extra excited because I'm 🐝 overdoing 🌏 the 🌲 emojis 🥳 but I will stop now.)  

We're partnering once again with One Tree Planted in the hopes of planting more trees than ever before. I hope if you're reading this, you'll join us. Planting a tree is super easy and you can plant up to 100 (!) trees per day.   Here's 6 ways to do it:

1. Like any piece of content on the forum. A comment, a post, an article - just click the thumbs up on something like-worthy, and you've planted one tree.  See how easy that was? 

To help give others something to like, you can recommend like-worthy content in the comments (our trending articles are always good).  You can hit up a group to find fun conversations.  And come back all month long to post tree gifs and pictures in this year's tree thread, and like everyone else's!  You can even like this very post to plant your first tree of the year. Meta!

2. RSVP to plant a tree. Your local ACEs (Atlassian Community Events) are awesome, free chances to network and learn with other community members, whether in person or online. Read our overview post for more on ACEs, and RSVP to the next one in your area this month. 

As a bonus, the ACE chapter with the most RSVPs in June will get a bonus 500 trees planted in the One Tree Planted region nearest to them.  We're excited to see who wins! 

3. Tell us what helped you grow in the Training & Certification group! We didn't want to leave our amazing Learning friends out this year, and there's a very on-theme thread you can join to chat about how you've grown.  We'll plant a bonus tree for every comment - in addition to the usual trees for likes or shares.

Plus, in that thread you can chat with our own head of Learning, @Marshall Walker Lee - who can answer any questions you have about our Certifications, Training, and free Learning offerings. 🤓

4. Send recognition to other users. We now have four recognition categories to choose from, and you can award them by searching their name in the Kudos window. They'll get 100 bonus points and you'll plant a tree. 

                                 

5.  Share a piece of community content with the hashtag #LikesForTrees and encourage your networks to join and plant trees with us! We really need all hands on deck to help us max out our tree donation this year, so spread the word, friends!

6. Vote in the poll. In case you missed it, the poll is here and will determine where we plant our thousands of trees. 

For a final moment of inspiration, here is an actual real-life tree planted by One Tree Planted thanks to our donation last year.  This little tree could have been the result of one click of your finger.  Isn't that amazing? 

(Oh, are you here, reading the secret fine print? In that case, I'll tell you a secret: if you achieve the status of Super Planter this year by planting 300 trees in July, you'll get a very special reward. Shh. Don't tell anyone. Except also tell everyone. We have a lot of trees to plant.) 

[Bobby Taylor]

I love this Community initiative! And now there are SIX ways to plant trees! 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳

[Brita Moorus]

This might be my favorite Community initiative! 🌱 I love how simple it is to turn everyday actions like liking a post or recognizing someone into something that actually helps the planet 💪🌳

Big kudos to the team for keeping this going year after year! 💚

[Andy Gladstone]

@Monique vdB this is a very underrated and under-liked article! We need to promote this to the community.

[Monique vdB]

@Andy Gladstone you're right! it doesn't look like users were notified about this article - I just republished it so hopefully that will help. 

I was in Iceland for the last two weeks but I'm back now and ready to TREE IT UP.

tbh I didn't see a lot of trees in Iceland but I offer here some puffins instead.

[Bobby Taylor]

I love Iceland @Monique vdB! And as one Icelander put it when I lived there, "No trees to get in the way of the view!" Obviously, he didn't know about #Likes4Trees! 😄

[Monique vdB]

@Bobby Taylor I just heard a joke from @Kristján Geir Mathiesen - 

Q: What do you do when you get lost in a forest in Iceland?

A: Stand up!

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[Bobby Taylor]

@Monique vdB and @Kristjan Geir Mathiesen - Origo that is so true!  😄

[Carlos Garcia Navarro]

I love trees and I love this article! Thanks, @Monique vdB  and Team!

[Dan Breyen]

It's going to be close.  15K trees to plant, but only 14 days left... 

[Brita Moorus]

Totally doable - let's go! 🌳

[Malaiappansrikanth S]

Without trees, we're not here. Can't imagine the earth without these pillars. 
So, I love saving the tress from being endangered 

[Moshe Armel]

If we weren't here, we wouldn't need trees. But we're here, and we need trees. What if trees were black? What if there was no color? But trees were created green! They are beautiful! Isn't it amazing how sky-blue and forest-green go so well together? 

[Moshe Armel]

@Monique vdB If there aren't so many trees in Iceland, maybe we should be planting there?

[Josh Shepherd]

We were looking at the trees at our house and seeing that there are several over 50' tall - that we planted years ago! 

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.

The second best time to plant a tree is now. 

Great initiative team.