Hello Product Hunt!
Happy Earth day everyone! We would like to celebrate our amazing planet by allowing people to plan more environmentally friendly journeys and by planting the trees we need so many more of in the UK :)
Travlee was born from working from home this past year like so many of us have done. I really liked the idea that I was having far less of an impact on the planet by not having to commute 60 miles every day in my car, and I wanted to find a way to make positive, practical change even when we're back to 'normal'... So this formed the idea of this app; allowing the easy planning of journeys and a real, tangible way to do something about the carbon emissions each trip generates.
I did some research around the state of forests in the UK and found out that only 14% of land is woodland with an even smaller number of this being natural, most of it is working forest for logging.
The more people I spoke to, the more I realised that we're shocked by this and that we care, but don't know how to help. That's when the magic happened and we partnered with projects round the UK who are working to create UK woodland and plant the trees we need. If you have Travlee and you offset the emissions of your daily commute or one-off journey, whether that's car, train or ferry(!), your funds will go into UK based conservation projects and have the power to make a huge difference, you could even visit the forest you've created in years to come.
And so Travlee was born, and with it's release today I hope it can go some way to helping the state of woodlands, not only in this country but hopefully around the world in the future.
The app is only released in the UK for now but with enough interest we'll look at expanding to different countries as it grows
Happy travels :)
Travlee