We were born out of the belief that every individual should take responsibility for saving the Earth from climate change. We all live here, so we should all do our bit.

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While travelling through Indonesia in 2017 we happened across a small reforestation project in Sumatra. The goal of this project was to restore land degraded by palm oil plantations, but we soon got into a discussion with the crew about the secondary benefits of carbon sequestration. When one of the volunteers commented that he had planted over 3000 trees - enough to absorb the lifetime carbon emissions of 20 Indonesians - it was a lightbulb moment.

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We wondered how many trees it would take to offset a New Zealanders lifetime carbon emissions, and how could we make it easy for Kiwis to achieve this?

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After 12 months of research and building links with reforestation

programs worldwide, 582 Trees came into being.

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