Greenzone Tree Credits Blog

The whole idea behind planting trees to offset carbon is that the trees will live to provide the offsets.

This Railroad has the right idea in planting trees – but who will take care of them to make sure they live? As anyone who grows trees will tell you, the first few years are the most critical. I am curious if anyone will ever follow up to see how many trees are left after 5 years. Now that they Railroad has planted them, will they plant new trees every year? Our system is designed to answer this problem and more. Our trees have already been planted and are at least a year old, and no older than 10 years. This makes sure that the offsets gained from our credits will be realized and can be done close to their location – in Colorado. That just makes sense to us. Plus, with Greenzone Certified Credits, you have a 3rd party oversight to make sure that the credits you buy actually go towards trees that live to help offset the carbon you are spending the money to offset.

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This is one of the many reasons we founded Greenzone. It made no sense to us to spend money on existing forests worldwide, or planting new trees somewhere else in the world that often die of neglect. This news article furthers that idea.
There is only so much money that is going to be spend towards planting trees. Period. Why reduce the amount of money that can be going to grow and encourage new tree growth, to spend it giving money towards people who own private forests? I guess the argument could be made that this would encourage them NOT to reduce the forest, but now at what cost? As long as you are going to encourage businesses and individual consumers to support tree growing, why not make sure we make the most out of every dollar they spend – they are only going to spend so much.