A friend and I started this little side project to help people plant trees while in lockdown. It was called Plantyflix back then. The whole point was to help keep people thinking about the environment and give people a way to take action on this bigger crisis we still face stuck at home on the couch.
Little did we think that we'd even plant a hundred trees, let alone thousands! But here we are. Super happy with how it went. However, the question is now — how can we plant even more trees? And how can we do it in such a way that encourages even more people to plant for every tree planted?
Enter the Treeferral referral program.
The aim is in the name. The whole point of Treeferral is one awesome little tree planting referral program for trees.
As you may have read above already, you plant trees, you refer a friend, and you earn 40% of every payment they make for planting trees for as long as they're signed up. Plus, we'll plant an extra tree for every tree they plant to get them started. Double (2x) the amount of trees planted.
It's quite literally a triple win. Win for you, win for your friend, and of course a win for nature and the planet, woo!
So come and join us! Let's plant forests and more forests together and reach the goal of planting 1 million trees. Let's go!
Choose how many trees to plant each month or year.
Your trees go in the ground and grow into the beautiful things they are.
Invite your mates, dates, friends and foes, mums and dads or whoever you want and earn cash for as long as they're planting trees with us.
Your trees are planted in different parts of the world and different countries — Madagascar, Indonesia, Mozambique, Nepal, Haiti, Kenya and Central America just to name a few.
You’ll have different trees planted for you, from mangroves, to tropical trees, trees that flower, palm trees, evergreen types, fruit trees, tall trees, little trees, shrubs and everything in between. Each tree planted is native to each country and will help to restore biodiversity to the region, sequester carbon emissions, contribute to mitigating the effects of climate change, make space and create natural habitats and worlds for wildlife and insects and grow into the beautiful things they are.
Not only does every trees planted help restore the native ecology, environment and improve the land. But also provides financial support to people and communities living in extreme poverty.
Super affordable tree planting — starting at $1 buck per tree.
Alternatively, you can choose a custom amount of trees. Click below and type in the quantity of trees to plant in the dropdown.
Alternatively, you can choose a custom amount of trees. Click below and type in the quantity of trees to plant in the dropdown.
Alternatively, you can choose a custom amount of trees. Click below and type in the quantity of trees to plant in the dropdown.
Here's an overview of where your money goes on average for every dollar for yearly plans.
For every person you refer with your unique code, you'll receive a 40% lifetime commission on the amount of their subscription for as long as they're planting trees (signed up). The more trees they plant, the more you'll earn. Plus, for every tree they plant, we'll double it for your friend to get them started. That's 2x the trees just to get going!
It's a win-win-win — win for you for earning cash and helping to plant more trees, win for you friend for planting trees and helping reduce greenhouse gas emissions and it's a win for the planet because, well, trees!
Unfortunately not, planting trees with Treeferral is not a certified carbon offset. However, planting trees does definitely help to reduce greenhouse emissions in our atmosphere. This can't be claimed as a verified offset though.
If you want to try to plant the amount of trees needed to match the footprint of your lifestyle, then go wild! On average a mature tree absorbs between 14-22kg (31-48lbs) of CO2 each year. You can calculate your footprint using the WWF carbon footprint calculator and then divide tonnes of your carbon footprint from the calculator by the above.
For reference, here are a few quick calculations for number of trees to plant based on per capita averages for people living these countries:
~422 trees / year = France (5.2 tonnes CO2 each year)
~534 trees / year = Germany (9.1 tonnes CO2 each year)
~968 trees / year = USA (16.6 tonnes CO2 each year)
~3,082 trees / year = Qatar (38.0 tonnes CO2 each year)
If you're looking for really great certified carbon offsets you can go to Nul. Full disclosure, I'm a co-founder in this as well :)
Nope, all you'll need to do is go and signup for a free affiliate account here to create your unique link, which you'll use to invite people to Treeferral and track your referrals.
Go crazy sharing your link to the world to earn and encourage others to start planting!
With help from Eden Reforestation Projects and other reforestation projects, your trees are planted across the globe in Madagascar, Haiti, Nepal, Indonesia, Mozambique, Kenya, and various other countries.
50% goes directly to planting trees (on yearly plans)! 🌳 🌳 🌳
40% this is reserved for the amazing Treeferral community help spread the word through their referral links.
Affiliates help spread the word so we can plant more and more trees! This what what Treeferral is all about. Creating a massive community of people encouraging others to plant trees and getting rewarded for their efforts.
You're welcome to sign up for free here to also become an affiliate and earn and help us plant more trees. You'll earn 40% lifetime commission on every tree planted. It's open to everyone :)
10% goes to keeping this whole thing going and growing (pun intended?).
Don't worry, trees not surviving happens for various reasons from time to time. Sometimes the trees and plants you're supporting will naturally regenerate more new seedling than was originally planted — for example, this can be as much as 150% more with mangroves than the amount that was planted.
However, just to be safe, we plant an extra 20% of trees on top of the amount you've chosen. Woo!
So there's likely many, many more trees growing than you originally chose to plant, based on a combination of natural regeneration and the extra trees added.
This genius you refer to is called Liam Hänel. From Australia, living in Berlin, working on products to help the planet (and people to live more sustainable lives).
Check out some other things I've made:
🤖 @DailyCO2 → Twitter bot that tweetsout the global atmospheric CO2 levels each day.
🌴 Nul (acquired) → Carbon offsetting for teams.
Feel free to reach out to me if you ever have any questions or just want to have a chat. Or contact me here.
Here's a little bit on how I built Treeferral and the the tools I used to create it (some are affiliate links of my own :) )
Figma — Designed using Figma
Webflow — Built in Webflow
Chargebee (with Stripe) is used for all payments and subscriptions
Rewardful — To manage the affiliate program
Fathom / Plausbile — For the privacy first analytics
Integromat — For automating a lot of things (makes life way better)
ConvertKit — For most communication and for all things email
FOMO — And that little popup you see show up from time to time is called FOMO.
Amazing! I'd love to hear it. You can send me an email here or find me on Twitter (DMs are open).
