Tell HN: It's not possible to pay $5 toward planting a tree

#1

Post by logicallee » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 3:52 PM UTC

Hey, in these times of increased climate awareness, carbon offsets, and so forth, I thought I'd let any interested entrepreneurs know that it is not possible for me to pay $1 to $5 toward planting a tree. (Via Stripe, Apple pay, Google pay, credit card, PayPal, etc.)

It just doesn't exist. I just spent about an hour looking.

So if you want a market need, that is a market opening about $7 billion wide.

If you do know of such an opportunity let us know, I'll try it and update my post if it does in fact exist.

Re: Tell HN: It's not possible to pay $5 toward planting a tree

#2

Post by frankjr » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 3:55 PM UTC

Check out https://teamtrees.org

Re: Tell HN: It's not possible to pay $5 toward planting a tree

#3

Post by h2odragon » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 3:56 PM UTC

What kind of tree do you want? where? I'll take your money and plant acorns on my land; its already covered with 15yr old scrub jungle so they won't go anywhere but I could fill the need you've outlined.

There's a Weyerhauser (i think) tree farm not far from me; they got lots of trees and perhaps buying shares in their company would fulfill your desire?

Re: Tell HN: It's not possible to pay $5 toward planting a tree

#4

Post by 57FkMytWjyFu » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 4:52 PM UTC

Spend 5 dollars saving a mature tree. Half of all tree bound carbon is stored in smaller trees by diameter.

The other half is in the top 1%.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/why-keeping-mature-forests-in...

Re: Tell HN: It's not possible to pay $5 toward planting a tree

#5

Post by tikkun » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 6:04 PM UTC

I donate monthly to this: https://www.wren.co

Re: Tell HN: It's not possible to pay $5 toward planting a tree

#6

Post by ipaddr » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 7:29 PM UTC

https://forestsontario.ca/en/page/get-involved

Dollar a tree https://onetreeplanted.org/products/plant-trees

https://www.treepeople.org/supportus/

Re: Tell HN: It's not possible to pay $5 toward planting a tree

#7

Post by tomcam » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 9:24 PM UTC

h2odragon wrote: post #3

What kind of tree do you want? where? I'll take your money and plant acorns on my land; its already covered with 15yr old scrub jungle so they won't go anywhere but I could fill the need you've outlined. There's a Weyerhauser (i think) tree farm not far from me; they got lots of trees and perhaps buying shares in their company would fulfill your desire?