Video: Upvote a tree- Charity starts with Steemit. Your upvote will plant trees in Peru. 30 planted to date

in #charity7 years ago

Quick update tonight and adding good mixed soils to the planted tree beds.  All trees are still alive and well. 

We have raised a total so far of: 

Steem- 40
SBD- 71.609
 

Outcomes to date:


  • 30 native trees planted 
  • One local has so far joined the tree planting part of this project. 
  • 480 Peru Soles donated to EcoSwell not for profit: forwarded to their reforestation program.
  • 30.332 SBD and 11 Steem held in savings until price goes and helps for accounting (check my wallet)
  • Creation of carbon offset directly derived for all Steem activities (takes a lot of energy to propel Steem). 
  • Building a socio-enviromental aware community platform on Steemit.     

I donate 100% of the SBD earned on the reforestation posts (like  this one) to a local ngo called Ecoswell. This ngo has a reforestation   program in which they have small garden nurseries in  the village. I  donate to them and I get lots of tree saplings to   plant  myself. This  on  behalf of all you upvoters. If there is any change to this format,  as they might as this grows, I will inform everyone with a blog post on  steemit. 

My most recent posts that  includes a written description, photos and personal  comment feedback: 

Video: Upvote a tree- Charity starts with Steemit. Your upvote will plant trees in Peru. 24 planted to date

My first ever post about this: I won some steem on SSC, so I bought a tree and planted it.  

Upvote a tree was a seed planted in @jaybird 's Steemit Sandwich Contest 

If you would like to read my posts, then find me here @intrepidsurfer

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Very nice project.

thank you. sometimes simple is best and with steemit it works.

Very true!👍🏻

I am in love with your project! Such a good thing to know there are still people who care about our earth!

There are more people out there than you think, but we each can help in our own way. I am worried if I start looking at those surf spots online, I am going to get the travel bug. I love going to places where I can't understand a language and have to rely of reading (trying to) body language/facial expressions. How long are you traveling for?

Hmm than this is maybe not your country. It is unbelievable how good the english speaking skills are of the locals, even on the most remoted aread! I would say, just go! I am almost going home and I am sure I will plan my next trip soon!

I still would love to visit, one day via steem :) when do you go"home" and where is your next trip planned for?

Great work, what you are doing is really good. I wish you all the best on your journey to help us all.
Have a great day

thank you for your kind words @pandorasrealm . Simple concept from a great innovation called steem.

how awesome!!

only the beginning @yankee-statman and you are directly contributing too :) thank you.

Excellent work again man!!
"Lets build a forest" :-)

getting there slowly but it will be done :) thank you for your ongoing support @brizhorticulture

Beauty! Resteemed and again thank you for all you do -- @intrepidsurfer

No thank you @artwatch :) just read your great post and I like that side to you.

awesome project!

thank you just helped to plant a tree.

i hope world gonna green back soon.. greetings from indonesia

one tree at a time it will :) greetings from Peru @manfaluthi

So here we go, just upvoted you, hope you plant a tree in my name.

thank you @niitesh you helped plant some trees.

started following you please do follow back so I too can grow along with my tree :)

Hi, I upvoted and followed you :)
Follow back and we can help each other succeed!

thank you for your upvote @karllucille it is very appreciated by all.

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I really love the work you're doing and the last line is awesome:

"Let's make something bigger. Let's make a forrest."

Thanks for improving the world demonstrating the power of STEEM.

I was curious about your cover photo. Is that you surfing and if so, where? Would love to see some posts on surfing. I got to surf in Costa Rica a while back and loved it completely.

It is my pleasure @lukestokes and just doing my part. The forest part is coming along nicely. A piece of land has been identified, 200+ tree seedlings located and ready to go. I am putting together a funding proposal to get this off the ground. We are looking to include a water tower, water tank, drip feed irrigation system, native trees and a few other plants to induce some permaculture. So we are looking to add also vetiver, passion fruit and papaya fruit. This evening I will be planting a few more trees around where I live. I will keep that going until the funding goal has been reached. Once I have all the details and written it out. I will make a blog of vlog about it in the coming week. It is beautiful to see so many people helping out, not only with upvotes and donations, but in other ways too.

As for the surfing part, well that is me surfing the point of Lobitos, Peru a couple of years back. It is the main reason why I stuck it out here, cause there are so many spots around, always offshore and the water is never freezing. If I can I am so going to mix up surfing with upvote a tree project.

steem surf.jpg

Sometimes the point here can handle a bigger wave. This was one of those days.

Again thank you so much for your assistance.

@intrepidsurfer

This was an awesome article! One of the best ones I read this week! Also, I really love what you're doing with this project!

That's why I decided to mention this article in my The Top 3 Steemit Articles Of The Week-post!

Congratulations on your award :)! If you want, you can contact me, and I'll buy you a cookie someday!

-Crypto Kid

hello cryptoteen, thank you so much for your kind words and mention in your article (which is a good read). We are moving now to plant over a 100 trees in one area. Just sorting out the proposal and I will post that on steemit.

Keep posted,

@intrepidsurfer

Hey, if someone deserves it, it's you! I will definitely keep on supporting this project!

On a side note, I hope you enjoyed my article :)!

I hope my upvote will help you! Keep it up!

thank you for your support @kennyroy I intend that we grow a forest.

Bru, there are loads of people getting involved in their own way. It is really cool to see it grow. I am glad you had a great time here. It was my pleasure. Oh definitely planting more trees.