Ecologi

Become climate positive

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Become climate positive

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Ecologi is a subscription service to help you lower your impact on the climate. We help businesses and everyday people lower their impact on the planet with an affordable monthly subscription.

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This looks really promising, but I’m skeptical of offset projects, generally. There have been a number of things written (https://www.csmonitor.com/Enviro... or https://www.google.com/amp/s/www... for example) showing how the offset industry is largely ineffective and occasionally outright fraudulent. Could you speak to what separates this project from the 75% of ineffective/scammy offset businesses? How are you guaranteeing efficacy? And have you been certified/audited/etc by a charity watchdog of any kind?

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6yr ago

Ecologi

Maker

Hey @chrisdolle when we set this up it was imperative that we choose the most effective projects with the highest standards. At the moment we only support those projects with https://www.goldstandard.org/ accreditation (highest certification you can get) and those that support the UN’s Global Goals https://www.globalgoals.org/. We take our transparency very seriously, as trust is a huge deal for us. We post receipts once we’ve purchased the trees and carbon offsets: https://offset.earth/about Our membership revenue is public: https://offsetearth.baremetrics.... We share our roadmap: https://www.notion.so/offseteart... of what’s coming up .. and lastly we publish our board meeting notes.    Happy to answer any questions you might have :)

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6yr ago

Ecologi

Maker

Hi @chrisdolle absolutely. Carbon offsets have had one of the rockiest reputations that I can think of. In the first article you shared, most of the answer to your question is here: "In answer to such complaints, some independent organizations – such as the Voluntary Carbon Standard, Plan Vivo, and Gold Standard – offer their seal of approval to projects. Offset providers say nervous customers should look for those certifications." It's these certifications which give projects the project quality. We only work with the highest standard out there, which is Gold Standard, co-created by WWF and 30 other environmental NGOs. They go to lengths (for the right reason) to unequivocally prove that carbon is being removed or prevented from being the atmosphere. The certainty comes from monitoring and reporting by external environmental consultants who have no financial gain from verifying these projects. If the regular audit fails, then the project isn't allowed to issue carbon credits that year. In terms of have we been audited, you can see we don't make any claims directly about climate impage: the carbon credits that we say we'd purchase have their certificates hosted on an international registry, attributed to Offset Earth - so you can see we're keeping to our word. We run a public ledger of all activities, carbon offset certificates, supply chain receipts, board meeting minutes etc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsh.... Genuine full transparency is hugely important, so everything we know you should be able to, too.

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6yr ago

@ecoad thanks! Great to see the transparency, as that’s incredibly important, and it’s fantastic to see you working with gold standard projects. Given the state of the offset industry, this is a breath of fresh air (no pun intended). Thank you (and Lucy) for the responses. Great stuff.

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6yr ago

Ecologi

Maker

@chrisdolle Brilliant, cheers Chris.

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6yr ago

Weekdone

Cool initiative! What ratios are you using for trees growing from seedling -> sapling -> pole -> sawlog? Eg out of every tree planted now, how many do you count being alive in 5, 10,25, 50 years? What amounts of CO2 accumulated per year do you count for each seedling, sapling, older tree etc? How do you average?

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6yr ago

Ecologi

Maker

@jkaljundi Thanks Juri. We don't actually count our trees when offsetting as they have yet to sequester carbon. Offsetting is handled by Gold Standard carbon offsets which will have already made the carbon reduction a year or more ago. e.g. Wind turbines or distributing fuel efficient cooking stoves. It's something we need to get better at communicating though!

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6yr ago

Charlie

Hunter

@jkaljundi As Elliot mentioned trees are not counted towards CO2, that's just a bonus. To your first question: Eden Reforestation Projects are the planting partner (https://edenprojects.org/) and they say survival rate is generally 80% (https://edenprojects.org/our-app...) but much higher thanks to natural regeneration.

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6yr ago

Stora

Congrats guys. Happy to have been member #24 of Offset Earth. 😀 Just checked my profile and I've planted 272 trees in less than a year for just $6.50 a month. Shows how much impact can be had for just a little cash! What are the biggest challenges you've faced with getting people to subscribe to a service like this?

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6yr ago

Ecologi

Maker

Hey @shylands founding member 24 💚 We tend to get a very positive response to what we are doing when we get to talk to people face to face, or doing talks. When you have the time to really walk people through the concept of mass tree planting and climate positivity - people are always on board and quick to sign up. But, it is a lot harder to do this over a tweet, an instagram post or Ad. I think this is what will challenge us over the next 6 months, how do we get our message out there in a succinct easy to digest way. Hope that kind of answers your question.

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6yr ago

Ecologi

Maker

Happy Earth Day everyone! I'm Elliot one of the cofounders of Offset Earth. We setup this platform for mass funding of real climate action. The capacity of carbon removal projects is so immense, that if we supported even a fraction of them we’d be able to buy ourselves much needed time. Since our launch last year we've planted 1.4 million trees and soon we'll be doing this every month. As a subscriber you'll offset your entire carbon footprint by funding the highest certified carbon reduction projects. You'll be growing your own forest too, each month you'll watch it come to life 12 trees at a time. Today we want to show you the power of collective action. The small individual contributions have the opportunity of major change. If were to scale to the number of Spotify or Netflix subscriptions then you’d be looking at offsetting over a tenth of the entire global carbon footprint and planting 150 billion trees a year. The team behind this are a collective of individuals using their skills to repair the planet. We measure our profit in impact, and are supported by over 60 volunteers on our makers Slack group. Features ✅ Become carbon positive through funding the world’s best climate projects ✅ Grow your own unique forest, between 12 and 48 saplings per month ✅ Set your own low carbon goals and celebrate the ones you've accomplished ✅ Watch your impact and forest come to life on your public profile ✅ Family? Add your kids and pets to your family's profile All for $6.5/€6 per month. We’d love for you to check it out and let us know any questions on here. Cheers all 💚🍃🌱

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6yr ago

I now have a forest of over 400 trees now - but my proudest day was the tree dividend = what an ace idea!

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6yr ago

The by far best invested subscribtion fee for me. I used to donate to projects I hand selected but honestly I did a wore job at selecting them than this team and it was a lot of work. Now I feel so much better every month when I look at our forest grow and the (little) impact we made. And once my baby becomes old enough to understand, I can show him that thousands of trees and hundres of tons of CO2 were reduced in his name and that his live already matters a great deal our earth.

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6yr ago

An amazing product that helps to solve a real problem!

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6yr ago

Ecologi

Maker

@tijshensen great to have you on board Tijs 🙌

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6yr ago

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