Check out the Trillion Tree Campaign! Totally inspiring to hear this teen talk about his goal of aiming to plant a billion trees. Now aiming for a trillion trees! We had the pleasure to hear Felix Finkbeiner talk and it only encourages us at Plantimate to keep pursing sustainable solutions! Finkbeiner is 19—and Plant-for-the-Planet, the environmental group he founded, together with the UN’s Billion Tree campaign, has planted more than 14 billion trees in more than 130 nations. The group has also pushed the planting goal upward to one trillion trees—150 for every person on the Earth.
Planting Trees With Drones
Embracing new technologies to rapidly plant trees in hard to reach locations whilst driving down labor costs this project offers a solution. Check out this exciting proposal making use of 3D scanning of terrain, algorithms and the firing of seed pods into the ground from drones.
‘The system’s engineers estimate that their method is about 10 times faster and only 20% of the cost of hand planting. And because there is no heavy machinery involved, it’s possible to plant in hard-to-reach areas that have no roads or steep, inaccessible terrain.The BioCarbon team has tested its technology in various locations and recently trialed reseeding historic mining sites in Dungog, Australia.’