TreeCard

Hey @jamie_treecard ! Great stuff. I am interested to know if the TreeCard will be available in Europe/Germany? Thank you!

@avilesdiego heya! yes we plan to offer our card in the EU. We’ll announce exact regional roll out plans soon!

@jamie_treecard I love this initiative!

@bsradcliffe going to be using SynapseFi for the US regulated back end

Hey @jamie_treecard! Great initiative. Would love to support it but is it available in India?

@merlin_laffitte thanks so much!!

@rrhoover haha! We hope so too. Thanks so much for chiming in.

@rrhoover The card is beautiful!

@denny_schenk Card is made with real wood! And Ecosia actually became profitable in year 1!!

@jamie_treecard Fair play. Well done!

@wisepythagoras ha! Good question. So our cards are all made from sustainably sourced FSC cherry wood, and we can produce up to 300,000 cards from the wood of a single tree. In general there’s no problem with using sustainably harvested wood, this is a great recyclable material— the problem that we’re solving is is forest areas that are cut down in an unsustainable fashion.

@jamie_treecard thanks for the answer. That makes sense. One last question. Is the underlying account FDIC insured?

@wisepythagoras yep it will be up to $250k

@caipivida Mastercard will be sharing the regular interchange fee with us for tree planting (not charging more)!

@mikeyeva heya! Great question. The card is more ecological than a regular card because it uses less plastic (and the plastic it does use is from recycled plastic bottles). However, a virtual card only would be the most environmentally beneficial, and we will encourage customers to choose this option when they set up their accounts!

@jamie_treecard Great! recycled plastic and a virtual card! That is really nice.