Green Wedge

Hello everyone! I’m excited to present Green Wedge, which allows you to access sustainable carbon removal projects, that are based on ecosystem restoration. We want to give an opportunity to environmentally conscious individuals, to take personal climate action on the proper scale. Through our web application, you can estimate how many trees are needed to compensate for average emissions in your country, choose a plan to gradually build towards your personal net zero, and track your positive climate impact. We'll handle planting :) Instead of one-time offsets, we offer yearly carbon recapture rates, connected to the growth of the trees. We also take anti-greenwashing measures, striving to make an actual land cover change instead of reforesting industrial plantations, and we include trees survivability rate in our impact calculations. We decided on subscriptions, as it is easier to stick with them, as tangible climate impact requires a proper scale and therefore time and/or resources. The upside of planting trees is, that they don’t disappear after canceling a subscription, so they will still recapture CO2 for you! The initial idea came up while browsing Reddit, where one Redditor shared their environmental impact tracking spreadsheet, but wasn’t sure how to properly include the compensation from recently bought trees. The organization from which they bought those trees didn’t provide reliable information on their impact and how it is spread in time, so I started researching this topic more and found out, that there are many services that either overestimate their impact or even use creative carbon accounting. I also strongly believe, that while we have to keep pressing decisionmakers to enact systemic changes, we may take complementary individual actions to speed up the transformation. The app wouldn’t be possible without the support from the Social Tides Aspire incubation program, which allowed me to team up with @martiinii . We plan to further develop our application, including adding a blog as a knowledgebase, maps to show where we'll be planting, and implementing WCAG standards. I encourage you to join our project and spread the word, so we’ll be able to reach a critical mass of positive impact as soon as possible!

@karl_mechkin congratulations on the launch of green-wedge, Would love to know what was the motivation behind the startup, what got you to work on this in the first place?

Awesome Karl! Let's tackle climate crisis through this kind of projects. I'm so proud of seeing you addressing this and hope everybody can see the same. All the best!

A very brave and probably much needed project in these industrial times. I wish you the courage to take it to an incredible scale

This is fantastic, @karl_mechkin! The focus on genuine ecosystem restoration and long-term carbon recapture is exactly what we need. The transparency in your approach is refreshing. How do you plan to expand Green Wedge's impact globally and engage more communities in this initiative?

It’s so important to have transparent and reliable info on carbon capture. Well done, excited to see how this grows👍

Green Wedge seems like a thoughtful approach to personal climate action, combining transparency with long-term impact through ecosystem restoration. I appreciate the focus on anti-greenwashing measures and tree survivability rates, but I'm curious how you ensure the accuracy of carbon recapture rates over time. It's great to see a subscription model that builds towards a tangible, lasting environmental change!