Plant 2 Trillion Trees Program
The Earth Dollar is partnered with the U.N.’s Tree Planting Campaign
(managed by Plant for the Planet). The goal of the Earth Dollar is to
implement the Living Economic System to tokenize, track, and Plant 2
Trillion Trees, including cultivating mangroves, forests, hemp,
bamboo, coral reefs, and to bring greenhouse gases emissions back
to pre-industrial levels. The carbon credits and Natural Capital Assets
from the restoration projects back the value of the Earth Dollar.
Plant 2 Trillion Trees Program
The Earth Dollar is partnered with the U.N.’s Tree Planting Campaign (managed by Plant for the Planet). The goal of the Earth Dollar is to implement the Living Economic System to tokenize, track, and Plant 2 Trillion Trees, including cultivating mangroves, forests, hemp, bamboo, coral reefs, and to bring greenhouse gases emissions back to pre-industrial levels. The carbon credits and Natural Capital Assets from the restoration projects back the value of the Earth Dollar.
INTRODUCTION
The Earth Dollar is initiating a worldwide campaign to restore the Earth while ending global poverty.
To achieve our goals, we are launching the following initiatives:
- Plant 2 Trillion Trees Campaign;
- Fulfill the Enhanced Sustainable Development Goals;
- Implement an alternative economic system called the Living Economic System;
- Rollout the Mother Earth Constitution which protects nature;
- Launch the Earth Shares system that connects people back to Mother Earth.
INTRODUCTION
The Earth Dollar is initiating a worldwide campaign to restore the Earth while ending global poverty.
To achieve our goals, we are launching the following initiatives:
- Plant 2 Trillion Trees Campaign;
- Fulfill the Enhanced Sustainable Development Goals;
- Implement an alternative economic system called the Living Economic System;
- Rollout the Mother Earth Constitution which protects nature;
- Launch the Earth Shares system that connects people back to Mother Earth.
SOLUTION – PLANT 2 TRILLION TREES PROGRAM
With the implementation of the Earth, Dollar does 3 things: (a) protects existing forests from deforestation, (b) plants more trees and regreen deserts, and (c) keeps fossil fuels in the ground.
The Earth Dollar has launched the “Plant 2 Trillion Trees Program” which can remove a substantial portion of heat-trapping emissions from the atmosphere.
Planting a billion hectares of trees won’t be easy and requires a massive undertaking. Assuming each hectare contains at least 50 to 100 trees to create an appropriate treetop canopy cover, it still takes 40 years for the trees to reach maturity and to absorb 1 metric ton of greenhouse gases. This is the reason why the Earth Dollar is also supporting hemp and bamboo production, which can absorb 10x more greenhouse gases annually.
[Over time, the ocean and land have continued to absorb about half of all carbon dioxide emissions, even as those emissions have risen dramatically in recent decades. It remains unclear if carbon absorption will continue at this rate. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech]
The trees will create enormous carbon sinks to restore Earth’s climate. Planting 2 trillion trees will allow the trees to remove 2 trillion tons of greenhouse gases by the time the trees reach 40 years old. This will restore balance to our biosphere and ecosystems. Planting 2 trillion trees within the next 10 years can also help save the Earth from deforestation. In planting the trees, we have to take into account the appropriate native species, the type of soil, and the local native biodiversity.
According to a new study in the journal Science, planting two trillion trees around the world would be the cheapest and most effective way to tackle the climate crisis, as well as increase biodiversity and stem the extinction of species.
“This is by far — by thousands of times — the cheapest climate change solution,” study co-author Thomas Crowther, a climate change ecologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
The Plant 2 Trillion Trees Program could remove enough greenhouse gases to pre-industrial level conditions.
The scientists used Google Earth mapping to determine there is enough space globally to plant more than a trillion trees without interfering with existing farmland or cities.
Russia, the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, and China have the most available room for reforestation. The study’s lead author, Jean-Francois Bastin, estimated there’s space for at least 1 trillion more trees, and potentially 1.5 trillion, on top of the estimated 3 trillion trees currently on the planet.
According to the study, an area of trees about the size of the United States could scrub 205 billion metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere — out of the roughly 300 billion metric tons of man-made carbon pollution produced over the past 25 years.
The other benefits of planting more trees include restoring our forests, filtering the air, providing fresh drinking water, providing fruits, nuts, syrups, and medicines, protecting biodiversity, and creating homes for thousands of species of plants and animals. Each tree has a minimum estimated ecological value of $400 to $2550 over the life of the tree (using Natural Capital Accounting to evaluate the tree, the ecosystem services provided by the tree, and the carbon credits generated by the tree).
Each tree that is planted will be registered, tracked, and monetized on the blockchain via the Earth Dollar’s Living Economic System. The Living Economic System uses the World Bank’s Natural Capital Accounting System to monetize the value of the trees, ecosystem services, and carbon credits on the blockchain in the form of a forward contract (“a type of financial instrument”). Tradable Smart Asset Tokens are then generated from the forward contracts using smart contracts. The Smart Asset Tokens act as digital assets used to back the value of the Earth Dollar.
We will be planting new trees in forests, in the backyards of homes, and newly created green spaces, as well as creating fruit forests for people to get free fruits. The 900 cities and 7,000 schools that have declared climate emergencies can also plant trees locally. Whole deserts can be regreened and turned into oases.
This is a really big campaign to restore the climate. We need your help to mobilize almost everyone on Earth to participate. We can change the course of history together.
SOLUTION – PLANT 2 TRILLION TREES PROGRAM
With the implementation of the Earth, Dollar does 3 things: (a) protects existing forests from deforestation, (b) plants more trees and regreen deserts, and (c) keeps fossil fuels in the ground.
The Earth Dollar has launched the “Plant 2 Trillion Trees Program” which can remove a substantial portion of heat-trapping emissions from the atmosphere.
Planting a billion hectares of trees won’t be easy and requires a massive undertaking. Assuming each hectare contains at least 50 to 100 trees to create an appropriate treetop canopy cover, it still takes 40 years for the trees to reach maturity and to absorb 1 metric ton of greenhouse gases. This is the reason why the Earth Dollar is also supporting hemp and bamboo production, which can absorb 10x more greenhouse gases annually.
[Over time, the ocean and land have continued to absorb about half of all carbon dioxide emissions, even as those emissions have risen dramatically in recent decades. It remains unclear if carbon absorption will continue at this rate. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech]
The trees will create enormous carbon sinks to restore Earth’s climate. Planting 2 trillion trees will allow the trees to remove 2 trillion tons of greenhouse gases by the time the trees reach 40 years old. This will restore balance to our biosphere and ecosystems. Planting 2 trillion trees within the next 10 years can also help save the Earth from deforestation. In planting the trees, we have to take into account the appropriate native species, the type of soil, and the local native biodiversity.
According to a new study in the journal Science, planting two trillion trees around the world would be the cheapest and most effective way to tackle the climate crisis, as well as increase biodiversity and stem the extinction of species.
“This is by far — by thousands of times — the cheapest climate change solution,” study co-author Thomas Crowther, a climate change ecologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
The Plant 2 Trillion Trees Program could remove enough greenhouse gases to pre-industrial level conditions.
The scientists used Google Earth mapping to determine there is enough space globally to plant more than a trillion trees without interfering with existing farmland or cities.
Russia, the United States, Canada, Australia, Brazil, and China have the most available room for reforestation. The study’s lead author, Jean-Francois Bastin, estimated there’s space for at least 1 trillion more trees, and potentially 1.5 trillion, on top of the estimated 3 trillion trees currently on the planet.
According to the study, an area of trees about the size of the United States could scrub 205 billion metric tons of carbon from the atmosphere — out of the roughly 300 billion metric tons of man-made carbon pollution produced over the past 25 years.
The other benefits of planting more trees include restoring our forests, filtering the air, providing fresh drinking water, providing fruits, nuts, syrups, and medicines, protecting biodiversity, and creating homes for thousands of species of plants and animals. Each tree has a minimum estimated ecological value of $400 to $2550 over the life of the tree (using Natural Capital Accounting to evaluate the tree, the ecosystem services provided by the tree, and the carbon credits generated by the tree).
Each tree that is planted will be registered, tracked, and monetized on the blockchain via the Earth Dollar’s Living Economic System. The Living Economic System uses the World Bank’s Natural Capital Accounting System to monetize the value of the trees, ecosystem services, and carbon credits on the blockchain in the form of a forward contract (“a type of financial instrument”). Tradable Smart Asset Tokens are then generated from the forward contracts using smart contracts. The Smart Asset Tokens act as digital assets used to back the value of the Earth Dollar.
We will be planting new trees in forests, in the backyards of homes, and newly created green spaces, as well as creating fruit forests for people to get free fruits. The 900 cities and 7,000 schools that have declared climate emergencies can also plant trees locally. Whole deserts can be regreened and turned into oases.
This is a really big campaign to restore the climate. We need your help to mobilize almost everyone on Earth to participate. We can change the course of history together.
TOKENIZED COMMODITIES (A TYPE OF REAL ASSET) BACK THE EARTH DOLLAR
THE EARTH DOLLAR
KEEPS FOSSIL FUELS IN THE GROUND
The Earth Dollar powers the Living Economic System which generates wealth by keeping commodities and nature-based land assets called Natural Capital Assets in the ground and protecting the Earth.
Tokenized commodities like fossil fuels will back the value of the Earth Dollar in the future. This will allow communities with coal, oil, natural gas, and other types of fossil fuels to generate wealth while keeping them in the ground. Communities can take care of people economically without destroying the Earth.
The Earth Dollar and the Living Economic System can unleash trillions of dollars of new wealth, prosperity, and abundance without destroying the Earth.
The extractive economic system created during the industrial revolution in the 19th century is creating climate change, pollution, the destruction of nature, and poor working conditions. Destroying nature and creating climate change is to generate wealth is longer an option.
With the Living Economic System, we will unleash trillions of dollars of unimaginable wealth, prosperity, and abundance by tokenizing, monetizing, and keeping assets in the ground, as well as by protecting, restoring, and revitalizing the Earth. The Living Economic System is built by modeling the World Bank’s Natural Capital Accounting System on the blockchain.
TOKENIZED COMMODITIES (A TYPE OF REAL ASSET) BACK THE EARTH DOLLAR
THE EARTH DOLLAR
KEEPS FOSSIL FUELS IN THE GROUND
The Earth Dollar powers the Living Economic System which generates wealth by keeping commodities and nature-based land assets called Natural Capital Assets in the ground and protecting the Earth.
Tokenized commodities like fossil fuels will back the value of the Earth Dollar in the future. This will allow communities with coal, oil, natural gas, and other types of fossil fuels to generate wealth while keeping them in the ground. Communities can take care of people economically without destroying the Earth.
The Earth Dollar and the Living Economic System can unleash trillions of dollars of new wealth, prosperity, and abundance without destroying the Earth.
The extractive economic system created during the industrial revolution in the 19th century is creating climate change, pollution, the destruction of nature, and poor working conditions. Destroying nature and creating climate change is to generate wealth is longer an option.
With the Living Economic System, we will unleash trillions of dollars of unimaginable wealth, prosperity, and abundance by tokenizing, monetizing, and keeping assets in the ground, as well as by protecting, restoring, and revitalizing the Earth. The Living Economic System is built by modeling the World Bank’s Natural Capital Accounting System on the blockchain.
THE PROBLEM
The Earth Dollar pays people and countries to plant trees (& mangroves), hemp, and bamboo, as well as to protect existing forests.
The Earth Dollar in conjunction with the “Living Economic System” registers, tracks, tokenizes, and monetizes the “Plant 2 Trillion Trees Program”. The Plant 2 Trillion Trees Program hopes to pant 2 trillion trees by 2030; the program does not engage in monoculture but works with local and indigenous organizations to plant local trees indigenous to the area.
Planting more trees helps mitigate climate change, increase biodiversity, reduce the extinction of species, increase storm protection (a mangrove can absorb up to 80% of the energy of a storm), reduce flooding, increases air and water quality, etc. There’s evidence that we can not rely simply on “planting trees” to save the world from climate change; we also need to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels.
A forest is an ecosystem dominated by trees. Forests cover 31% of the land area on our planet. Forests support humans on local and regional scales by providing ecosystem services like pollination, climate regulation, and soil conservation.
Trees are the ultimate carbon storage machines. Like all plants, they take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for their growth and energy, a process called photosynthesis. They produce oxygen which we breathe as a byproduct of this process.
It follows then that cutting down trees has serious consequences for carbon emissions. A 2018 study found that in Oregon, US, logging had been responsible for releasing 33 million tons of carbon dioxide each year since 2000, dwarfing other sources of carbon emissions such as transportation in the state.
Many animals also rely on forests. Forests are home to more than three-quarters of the world’s life on land.
Forests also play a critical role in mitigating climate change because they act as a carbon sink—soaking up carbon dioxide that would otherwise be free in the atmosphere and contributing to ongoing changes in climate patterns.
17% of the Amazon Rainforest has been lost in the last 50 years, mostly due to forest conversion for cattle ranching, logging mahogany, and extracting gold and oil.
THE PROBLEM
The Earth Dollar pays people and countries to plant trees (& mangroves), hemp, and bamboo, as well as to protect existing forests.
The Earth Dollar in conjunction with the “Living Economic System” registers, tracks, tokenizes, and monetizes the “Plant 2 Trillion Trees Program”. The Plant 2 Trillion Trees Program hopes to pant 2 trillion trees by 2030; the program does not engage in monoculture but works with local and indigenous organizations to plant local trees indigenous to the area.
Planting more trees helps mitigate climate change, increase biodiversity, reduce the extinction of species, increase storm protection (a mangrove can absorb up to 80% of the energy of a storm), reduce flooding, increases air and water quality, etc. There’s evidence that we can not rely simply on “planting trees” to save the world from climate change; we also need to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels.
A forest is an ecosystem dominated by trees. Forests cover 31% of the land area on our planet. Forests support humans on local and regional scales by providing ecosystem services like pollination, climate regulation, and soil conservation.
Trees are the ultimate carbon storage machines. Like all plants, they take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere for their growth and energy, a process called photosynthesis. They produce oxygen which we breathe as a byproduct of this process.
It follows then that cutting down trees has serious consequences for carbon emissions. A 2018 study found that in Oregon, US, logging had been responsible for releasing 33 million tons of carbon dioxide each year since 2000, dwarfing other sources of carbon emissions such as transportation in the state.
Many animals also rely on forests. Forests are home to more than three-quarters of the world’s life on land.
Forests also play a critical role in mitigating climate change because they act as a carbon sink—soaking up carbon dioxide that would otherwise be free in the atmosphere and contributing to ongoing changes in climate patterns.
17% of the Amazon Rainforest has been lost in the last 50 years, mostly due to forest conversion for cattle ranching, logging mahogany, and extracting gold and oil.
TYPE OF FORESTS
There are three types of forests: boreal, temperate, and tropical, based on latitude. The Amazon Rainforests are considered tropical forests.
Boreal Forests
Climate change is a major threat to boreal forests. Almost 80% of boreal forests are on top of permafrost, a layer of soil that remains frozen throughout the year. As temperatures increase at unnaturally fast rates, the ground becomes soft and swampy and many trees eventually lose stability and die. Scientists from the International Boreal Forest Research Association believe that boreal forest conservation is key to slowing climate change.
Temperate Forests
As of 2020, temperate forests accounted for 16% of the Earth’s total forest cover.
Temperate forests are home to many endangered species. In the U.S., 12 mammal species listed as Endangered by the Fish and Wildlife Service live in temperate forest habitats.
Tropical Forests
Tropical forests are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth. These forests cover only a tenth of the surface of the planet, yet harbor half of all species. They are also some of the most threatened by human activities.
Tropical forests are known for their extraordinary biodiversity. The Amazon rainforest, for example, is home to 10% of the world’s described species.
Human activities such as logging, land clearing for agriculture, and poaching are a threat to the future of tropical forests. In 2020 alone, over 12 million hectares of tropical forests were lost, according to the World Resources Institute.
Preserving tropical rainforests can defend against climate change. They grow rapidly and produce rainforest cloud cover that reflects the sun’s rays into space, according to the Rainforest Alliance. They are also vital for the weather system – helping to create rain through the water vapor transpiring from their leaves which in turn helps prevent droughts in the region.
TYPE OF FORESTS
There are three types of forests: boreal, temperate, and tropical, based on latitude. The Amazon Rainforests are considered tropical forests.
Boreal Forests
Climate change is a major threat to boreal forests. Almost 80% of boreal forests are on top of permafrost, a layer of soil that remains frozen throughout the year. As temperatures increase at unnaturally fast rates, the ground becomes soft and swampy and many trees eventually lose stability and die. Scientists from the International Boreal Forest Research Association believe that boreal forest conservation is key to slowing climate change.
Temperate Forests
As of 2020, temperate forests accounted for 16% of the Earth’s total forest cover.
Temperate forests are home to many endangered species. In the U.S., 12 mammal species listed as Endangered by the Fish and Wildlife Service live in temperate forest habitats.
Tropical Forests
Tropical forests are some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth. These forests cover only a tenth of the surface of the planet, yet harbor half of all species. They are also some of the most threatened by human activities.
Tropical forests are known for their extraordinary biodiversity. The Amazon rainforest, for example, is home to 10% of the world’s described species.
Human activities such as logging, land clearing for agriculture, and poaching are a threat to the future of tropical forests. In 2020 alone, over 12 million hectares of tropical forests were lost, according to the World Resources Institute.
Preserving tropical rainforests can defend against climate change. They grow rapidly and produce rainforest cloud cover that reflects the sun’s rays into space, according to the Rainforest Alliance. They are also vital for the weather system – helping to create rain through the water vapor transpiring from their leaves which in turn helps prevent droughts in the region.
THE PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD
Following the Paris Agreement, after 2020, the global community has agreed to major emission reduction programs. Reforestation can complement these emission reduction strategies.
With the Paris Agreement, governments around the world committed to reducing emissions by adopting low-carbon pathways following nationally determined contributions. As a result, it’s become more urgent than ever to have realistic estimates of each country’s capacity to increase its forest cover and health.
While it’s likely the burden of restoring forests will fall primarily on the shoulders of the world’s large and economically-developed countries, the developing world can also contribute by reducing land-use change and deforestation.
One surprising success story is China. Over the past 15 years or so, China has planted millions of trees and created millions of hectares of new forest cover, much of it in areas with marginal agricultural potential. China’s land-use policy increased forest cover in southern China by between 10 and 20 percent, turning these areas into intensely managed forests. As a result, it has offset 20 percent of China’s annual fossil fuel emissions, and since 2012 that percentage has increased to 33 percent. So that’s a success story.
The Earth Dollar believes that we must love Mother Earth, protect her and care for her so that successive generations have a safe future, with climate justice, peace, love, harmony, clean water for all, have higher standards of living so everyone on the planet can thrive and reach their full human potential.
The Earth Dollar is governed by the Mother Earth Constitution as universal private contract law, which protects the Rights of Mother Earth, as well as human rights, freedoms, and happiness.
THE PARIS CLIMATE ACCORD
Following the Paris Agreement, after 2020, the global community has agreed to major emission reduction programs. Reforestation can complement these emission reduction strategies.
With the Paris Agreement, governments around the world committed to reducing emissions by adopting low-carbon pathways following nationally determined contributions. As a result, it’s become more urgent than ever to have realistic estimates of each country’s capacity to increase its forest cover and health.
While it’s likely the burden of restoring forests will fall primarily on the shoulders of the world’s large and economically-developed countries, the developing world can also contribute by reducing land-use change and deforestation.
One surprising success story is China. Over the past 15 years or so, China has planted millions of trees and created millions of hectares of new forest cover, much of it in areas with marginal agricultural potential. China’s land-use policy increased forest cover in southern China by between 10 and 20 percent, turning these areas into intensely managed forests. As a result, it has offset 20 percent of China’s annual fossil fuel emissions, and since 2012 that percentage has increased to 33 percent. So that’s a success story.
The Earth Dollar believes that we must love Mother Earth, protect her and care for her so that successive generations have a safe future, with climate justice, peace, love, harmony, clean water for all, have higher standards of living so everyone on the planet can thrive and reach their full human potential.
The Earth Dollar is governed by the Mother Earth Constitution as universal private contract law, which protects the Rights of Mother Earth, as well as human rights, freedoms, and happiness.
SIMILAR TREE PLANTING PROGRAMS
The Earth Dollar’s “Plant 2 Trillion Trees Program” works with the United Nations’ Trillion Trees Campaign, run by Plant for the Planet.
Another ambitious program is the 1 trillion trees campaign launched by the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2020 in support of the UN’s Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, which aims to restore, protect, or plant 1 trillion trees by 2030. That followed a similar campaign aiming to plant 1 trillion trees by 2050 which was kicked off in 2018 by nature nonprofits including WWF.
SIMILAR TREE PLANTING PROGRAMS
The Earth Dollar’s “Plant 2 Trillion Trees Program” works with the United Nations’ Trillion Trees Campaign, run by Plant for the Planet.
Another ambitious program is the 1 trillion trees campaign launched by the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2020 in support of the UN’s Decade of Ecosystem Restoration, which aims to restore, protect, or plant 1 trillion trees by 2030. That followed a similar campaign aiming to plant 1 trillion trees by 2050 which was kicked off in 2018 by nature nonprofits including WWF.
THE EARTH DOLLAR
The Earth Dollar is a currency based on LOVE and backed by the health and wellness of Mother Earth (Natural Capital Assets). The Earth Dollar was created for the love of the Earth and all life that dwells on her. Since love is difficult to quantify, up to $5.28+ trillion in Real Assets, including nature-based land assets called Natural Capital Assets have been pledged on-chain to back the Earth Dollar in order to restore the Earth and the climate, while simultaneously ending global poverty. The Earth Dollar provides liquidity to reinvigorate the global economy ravaged by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, unsustainable cities, the extinction of species, joblessness, poverty, rising cancer, and disease rates, and other crises without putting an extra debt burden on countries and taxpayers.
The initial assets pledged consist of platinum group metals (gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, carbon credits, spring water, etc.), along with residential properties, and commercial properties, Natural Capital Assets, real estate assets, manufactured assets, and creative assets via NFTs. These are only the initial Assets pledged to back the Earth Dollar; we expect even more assets in the future.
Earth Dollar will be a Carbon-Negative Asset-Backed Private Community Currency of the Earth Dollar Association and Utility Currency to pay for nodes, decentralized CPU Power, decentralized GPU Power and decentralized Storage Space on the Mother Earth Supercomputer (& Blockchain) (aka as the Mother Earth Supercomputer (aka Mother Earth OS)), one of the world’s fastest decentralized supercomputers which can process up to 1 million transactions per second to run the Living Economic System, DApps, real-time games, telecommunications, smart-contracts, IoT and more.
THE EARTH DOLLAR
The Earth Dollar is a currency based on LOVE and backed by the health and wellness of Mother Earth (Natural Capital Assets). The Earth Dollar was created for the love of the Earth and all life that dwells on her. Since love is difficult to quantify, up to $5.28+ trillion in Real Assets, including nature-based land assets called Natural Capital Assets have been pledged on-chain to back the Earth Dollar in order to restore the Earth and the climate, while simultaneously ending global poverty. The Earth Dollar provides liquidity to reinvigorate the global economy ravaged by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, unsustainable cities, the extinction of species, joblessness, poverty, rising cancer, and disease rates, and other crises without putting an extra debt burden on countries and taxpayers.
The initial assets pledged consist of platinum group metals (gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, carbon credits, spring water, etc.), along with residential properties, and commercial properties, Natural Capital Assets, real estate assets, manufactured assets, and creative assets via NFTs. These are only the initial Assets pledged to back the Earth Dollar; we expect even more assets in the future.
Earth Dollar will be a Carbon-Negative Asset-Backed Private Community Currency of the Earth Dollar Association and Utility Currency to pay for nodes, decentralized CPU Power, decentralized GPU Power and decentralized Storage Space on the Mother Earth Supercomputer (& Blockchain) (aka as the Mother Earth Supercomputer (aka Mother Earth OS)), one of the world’s fastest decentralized supercomputers which can process up to 1 million transactions per second to run the Living Economic System, DApps, real-time games, telecommunications, smart-contracts, IoT and more.