Family Bundle

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You can update the quantity depending on how big or small your family is. This bundle assumes a family living in an average sized home with a well rounded diet. This package accounts for groceries, water rates and standard levels of house maintenance and related activities. We’ve accounted for electricity, natural gas, and average landfill waste (excluding recycled waste). We’ve also considered clothing, footwear, and the average carbon footprint from family leisure activities.

 

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TREE PLANTING PROJECTS

Head to our Tree Planting Page for more information.

1. Agroforestry Project, Rwanda

Agriculture is the backbone of Rwanda’s economy. However, Rwanda has been hit hard by rises in inflation and today, approximately 45% of children under the age of five in Rwanda suffer from chronic malnutrition and one in four is undernourished. The hillsides have been farmed extensively leading to soil erosion and a loss of vital top-soil. A lack of trees on the hillsides that bind the soil have led to landslides.

This program involves equipping smallhold farmers with the finance, skills, and expertise to improve productivity, soil health, and climate resilience of their crops.

2. Mangrove Restoration, Kenya

The project site was previously expansive mangrove forests but have since been depleted due to over-harvesting. Communities used to rely on these mangrove estuaries for high-value commercial fish species, like prawns and crabs, as a reliable source of income for the fishing community.

Restoring this area helps to maintain shoreline stability and safeguard communities during severe weather events. The protection and restoration of inland coastal forest habitats targets key drivers of deforestation such as uncontrolled fires and charcoal production.

3. We Cool Combination takes the decision making out of your hands.

For those who can't decide where they want to plant their trees; We Cool will speak with our tree planting partners and plant the trees on your behalf where they are needed most at the time.

Head to our Tree Planting Page for more information.

1. Agroforestry Project, Rwanda

Agriculture is the backbone of Rwanda’s economy. However, Rwanda has been hit hard by rises in inflation and today, approximately 45% of children under the age of five in Rwanda suffer from chronic malnutrition and one in four is undernourished. The hillsides have been farmed extensively leading to soil erosion and a loss of vital top-soil. A lack of trees on the hillsides that bind the soil have led to landslides.

This program involves equipping smallhold farmers with the finance, skills, and expertise to improve productivity, soil health, and climate resilience of their crops.

2. Mangrove Restoration, Kenya

The project site was previously expansive mangrove forests but have since been depleted due to over-harvesting. Communities used to rely on these mangrove estuaries for high-value commercial fish species, like prawns and crabs, as a reliable source of income for the fishing community.

Restoring this area helps to maintain shoreline stability and safeguard communities during severe weather events. The protection and restoration of inland coastal forest habitats targets key drivers of deforestation such as uncontrolled fires and charcoal production.

3. We Cool Combination takes the decision making out of your hands.

For those who can't decide where they want to plant their trees; We Cool will speak with our tree planting partners and plant the trees on your behalf where they are needed most at the time.

IMPACT OF TREES

Trees remove carbon dioxide from our atmosphere. This process, known as 'carbon sequestration’, involves absorbing CO2 and storing carbon, effectively cleansing our air and purging harmful elements from our environment.

Beyond their carbon-sequestering abilities, trees also act as oxygen generators, they provide shade and by releasing water vapours through their leaves, trees contribute to the Earth’s natural cooling mechanisms. Feel free to give a tree a little hug next time you step outdoors and thank it for it’s cooling effect on our planet. 

Trees remove carbon dioxide from our atmosphere. This process, known as 'carbon sequestration’, involves absorbing CO2 and storing carbon, effectively cleansing our air and purging harmful elements from our environment.

Beyond their carbon-sequestering abilities, trees also act as oxygen generators, they provide shade and by releasing water vapours through their leaves, trees contribute to the Earth’s natural cooling mechanisms. Feel free to give a tree a little hug next time you step outdoors and thank it for it’s cooling effect on our planet. 

WHY TREES

Tree planting has a significant impact beyond just carbon sequestration. They offer wildlife habitats and support ecosystems which provide additional food sources and income for local communities. The projects we work with employ people from their surrounding communities, extending our impact beyond environmentalism. These efforts form the foundation of enduring and sustainable restoration projects. There are various methods for carbon sequestration, but we feel our tree-planting initiatives have the most meaningful, holistic, and tangible impact.

Tree planting has a significant impact beyond just carbon sequestration. They offer wildlife habitats and support ecosystems which provide additional food sources and income for local communities. The projects we work with employ people from their surrounding communities, extending our impact beyond environmentalism. These efforts form the foundation of enduring and sustainable restoration projects. There are various methods for carbon sequestration, but we feel our tree-planting initiatives have the most meaningful, holistic, and tangible impact.

TIPS TO REDUCE YOUR IMPACT

You don’t need to be an environmental hero, there are small daily changes we can make which lead to meaningful impact. Small steps count:

  • Remembering your reusable bags and reusable cups when going out.
  • Try to avoid using a clothes drying machine in the home, get out that clothes horse. 
  • Switch over to LED light bulbs and smart appliances. 
  • If you need to use airconditioning, set your temperature to 26 degrees celsius during the day, 22 degrees when sleeping. 
  • Choosing local, organic foods that are in season. 
  • Turn your water heater down to 49 degrees celsius. This can save 250kg CO2 a year.

You don’t need to be an environmental hero, there are small daily changes we can make which lead to meaningful impact. Small steps count:

  • Remembering your reusable bags and reusable cups when going out.
  • Try to avoid using a clothes drying machine in the home, get out that clothes horse. 
  • Switch over to LED light bulbs and smart appliances. 
  • If you need to use airconditioning, set your temperature to 26 degrees celsius during the day, 22 degrees when sleeping. 
  • Choosing local, organic foods that are in season. 
  • Turn your water heater down to 49 degrees celsius. This can save 250kg CO2 a year.

Reduce What You Can

If you can't stop it, swap it for an option that is kinder to Mother Earth.

Balance Out Your Impact

Plant trees to balance out the behaviours you can't avoid or that don't have an environmentally friendly alternative. It feels good to do something for the planet.

You Can Make a Difference

Understanding your impact empowers you to make small changes to your lifestyle. Small changes can make a big difference in the long run.

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What is a carbon footprint?

Our carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gasses (carbon dioxide and methane) that are generated by our actions.

Our carbon footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gasses (carbon dioxide and methane) that are generated by our actions.

Why have you chosen these tree planting projects?

We choose reforestation projects which help with landscape restoration as well as community development. 

We select our projects by ensuring they use collaboration and science-based restoration practices. These specific programs generate substantive benefits designed explicitly by and for each community that support their well-being, raise living conditions, and restore their environment.

We choose reforestation projects which help with landscape restoration as well as community development. 

We select our projects by ensuring they use collaboration and science-based restoration practices. These specific programs generate substantive benefits designed explicitly by and for each community that support their well-being, raise living conditions, and restore their environment.

What is the We Cool Combination?

For those individuals or business owners who are too busy to read through all the reforestation project data, we have created the We Cool Combination option. The We Cool Combination plants the number of tress on your behalf depending of the status of the project at the time and where our planting partners advise it's needed most.

This option is intended to allow you to make an impact with as little decision making barrier as possible.

For those individuals or business owners who are too busy to read through all the reforestation project data, we have created the We Cool Combination option. The We Cool Combination plants the number of tress on your behalf depending of the status of the project at the time and where our planting partners advise it's needed most.

This option is intended to allow you to make an impact with as little decision making barrier as possible.

Can you provide proof of planting?

Yes. You can always contact We Cool or any of our partners and verify that your contributions, both financial and in person, have been made.

We only work with verified tree planting projects. We work with partners on the ground to use technology that monitors the impact.

This includes per unit data that records timestamps and geo-coordinates of where your impact happened! We then monitor it to ensure real environmental impact and survival over time.

Yes. You can always contact We Cool or any of our partners and verify that your contributions, both financial and in person, have been made.

We only work with verified tree planting projects. We work with partners on the ground to use technology that monitors the impact.

This includes per unit data that records timestamps and geo-coordinates of where your impact happened! We then monitor it to ensure real environmental impact and survival over time.