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

13 points by logicallee a year ago

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.

ipaddr a year ago

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

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

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

  • logicallee a year ago

    Your first link does not allow a donation of $5, it says the donation must be at least $10. So as mentioned, "it is not possible for me to pay $1 to $5 toward planting a tree".

    https://ibb.co/PFsCd76

    Can you confirm if it worked for you for $5? I've had a number of issues with electronic warfare against me personally, last night electronically I mentioned your link and my intention to donate up to $5.

    It is possible that overnight someone broke into Forest Ontario servers to make sure I failed in what I was trying to do, which is donate $5, as I've had a number of associated failures.

    In this case I think I will surrender with a white flag and ask them their demands.

    I'll put this on my web site.

    EDIT: I've put my unconditional document on my website.

    https://taonexus.com/

    • logicallee a year ago

      Hey, I just wanted to follow up that I had an absolutely great experience with onetreeplanted.org, I was able to plant trees for $5 dollars absolutely seamlessly: https://imgur.com/a/kp7SB4U

      Whatever issue there was on the Canadian side is all in the past, I look forward to recommending onetreeplanted.org to all of my friends and family. They are the best site and I loved to use it.

      Check them out at https://onetreeplanted.org/

h2odragon a year ago

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?

  • tomcam a year ago

    “Scrub jungle” shall be the new nickname for my kids’ rooms

wnkrshm a year ago

Planting trees is the least-cost and least-impact part of actually cultivating a healthy forest that is not another monoculture patch of land (e.g. firs).

To get your trees to survive their early life and not get eaten by animals (tasty green branches and roots without nasty bark) or die from deer massage (they scratch themselves on the bark and can damage trees to the point of decades old trees dieing), you need people actually maintaining the cultivated area until it becomes a quality mixed forest - otherwise, only the fast growing trees will survive like spruce and beech.

Spruce acidify the ground and cover it with needles, nothing else grows there - so not good for biodiversity. Beech are low-density wood and don't bind much carbon.

Setting up the development of an old-growth forest is lots of work.

(Edit: if someone plants a tree, odds are it'll get eaten - you will not get a tree for 5USD, you'll likely feed the local fauna)

Cypher a year ago

I'll let you say planted my tree my garden for $5