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Trees for Life!
From: $9.95 / month
No matter how climate-conscious we are, it’s virtually impossible for most of us to eliminate our emissions through lifestyle changes alone. We must do more to reverse our excess lifestyle emissions.
That’s where our Trees for Life program comes in.
Choose how many trees you need to plant based on your lifestyle, and you’ll walk a little more lightly on the planet, knowing that the trees you plant are sequestering an ever-increasing amount of carbon while restoring the soil, providing habitat for other creatures, and providing a livelihood for people less fortunate than us.
Your trees are never harvested or traded. They’re planted and protected by local farmers and live out their natural lives — a vibrant, living forest to replace one that was destroyed by previous generations.
Subscription Options:
- 10 Trees / 2.5 MT: Congrats! You live a deliberately low-impact, transit-light, plant-forward, low-consumption lifestyle — far below the U.S. norm, but close to what a sustainable future would require. You only need to plant 10 trees a month to reverse your excess emissions of approximimately 2.5 Metric Tons (MT) a year.
- 20 Tress / ~5 MT: Well done! You live a consciously lower-carbon lifestyle — an efficient home, reduced driving, modest consumption, and a plant-forward diet — without fully opting out of mainstream conveniences. You only need to plant 20 trees a month to reverse your excess emissions of approximately 5 MT CO2(e) a year.
- 40 Trees / ~10 MT: You live a lower-than-average carbon lifestyle, perhaps because you live in an apartment or fly infrequently, but can’t afford an EV and haven’t been willing to give up those burgers! You need to plant 40 trees a month to reverse your excess emissions of approximately 10 MT a year.
- 70 Trees / ~16 MT: You have the roughly the average American lifestyle: you live in a comfortable, gas car-dependent, meat-inclusive, consumption-oriented lifestyle that reflects the default U.S. system — not extreme locally, but very carbon-intensive globally. You need to plant 70 trees a month to reverse your emissions of ~16 MT a year. (SOURCE):~16 metric tons of carbon pollution (CO2(e)) over 20 years).
Why Buy Trees?
Trees clean our air, protect wildlife, and naturally absorb about 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions each year. (WWF, ICUN, UN)
But in many parts of the world, deforestation is proceeding at an alarming rate. Our world is losing the very forests that keep our planet in balance.
That’s why Climate Action Now launched our Trees for Life program — to help concerned citizens like you restore what has been lost, and leave a legacy of living, healthy forests that clean our air, protect wildlife, and stabilize the climate.
Your purchase helps rebuild forests in Kenya, where farmers plant and protect native trees that will grow for decades. The trees are planted under contract with the Kenyan Forest Service to help reforest 5.1 million hectares, a significant component of Kenya’s Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement (PDF).
These trees are protected by subsistence farmers who plant and care for them. They will live out their natural lives, drawing carbon from the atmosphere and creating habitats for countless species. Learn more about our program.
Why Climate Action Now?
Since we launched the app on Earth Day 2021, users have taken over 4,321,000 actions, sent over 3,649,000 messages to political and business leaders urging climate action, and planted over 602,000 trees.
Certified B Corp
As a certified B Corp we meet the high standards of social and environmental responsibility. That means your gift is more than thoughtful — it’s ethical, transparent, and planet-positive.
How Does It Work?
- Place your order. Complete and submit the order form above. If this is a gift, enter the name and email of your friend or loved one along with a personal message. Your recipient will be notified when you place your order and at each renewal thereafter. See sample.
- We purchase the trees. At the beginning of each calendar quarter, we purchase the promised number of trees from .
- The trees are planted. pays subsistence farmers in Kenya to restore the forests with indigenous tree species. The trees live out their natural lives, drawing carbon from the atmosphere as they grow. Read our interview with Victor Mwanga, leader of Earthlungs.
- We publish a public record showing that we made the promised number of purchases.
Purchases are not tax-deductible.