GPN x OperationWebTree Reforestation Partnership

[lanzdingz]

This proposal is an official call to impact for any chapter wanting to participate in OpertionWebTree and support reforestation in their local community.

TLDR; 18 projects are already participating at the crossroad of reforestation and web3, with 4 of those projects being GPN Chapters (Ottawa, LA, Mexico, Brazil), with hopefully Nigeria and Kenya joining soon.

In partnership with Silvi Protocol, chapters participating will receive a startup grant of $200USD to help buy the materials needed to germinate seeds or buy saplings.

This is a great initiative to help support local impact in your community while being a part of a larger GreenPill + Regen group. If you have been looking for a focus or project for your chapter, please consider OperationWebTree. I would love to help onboard more GPN chapters and support you in getting the project off the ground in your community.

This also allows for onboarding of more community members, helps people track their/your impact on-chain and is a fun and meaningful community-building project.

As an example, GreenPill Ottawa was able to give out 160 White Pine saplings to 8 local community partners to be planted all across the region. None of these communities are web3 native, and this is allowing us to onboard them slowly by using the Silvi Protocol App. They all know this project is being funded by crypto and piqued their interest in learning more. We (Ottawa GP) are also looking to use $earth tokens to reward those who continue to explore crypto. Pulling from Kevin’s idea that having people’s first experience be, being rewarded for doing something good/regenerative.

Here is more information about OperationWebTree as a whole: pulled from their announcement post

Many reforestation initiatives fall short of their goal to restore whole ecosystems because they don’t plant the right trees, consider whole lifecycle stewardship of trees, or find it hard to share their impact. With the Silvi App, pilot projects can get rewarded for full lifecycle stewardship and share individual tree progress through interactive maps.

RWA’s are a growth hack for Web3 onboarding.

We see an opportunity to onboard new web3 users through reforestation efforts, bringing an entirely new audience to crypto and highlighting its usefulness in the context of planetary restoration. People should get paid to plant trees.

We see planting trees as one of the most valuable activities for society and Mother Earth. Therefore, we’re pooling funds to payout the tree stewards who are doing this important work so they can fuel their efforts and eventually, make it a livelihood. The Big Vision? A revolving endowment that pays retroactive tree steward incentives for thousands of projects across the world.

See Silvi Protocol’s twitter official post on OperationWebTree

A map and notes from our last community planning call

If you are interested in participating in OperationWebTree either as a chapter or as an individual, let me know and we can begin the steps of getting you onboarded.

[youmoer]

Thank you so much! I appreciate all your hard work and effort.

[Decentralizedceo]

This is cool. So the initial funding is for the seed acquisition, what of the planting and the tree maintenance? Does the silvi app keep up with the trees’ growth? I am a fan of Silvi app and would love to learn more. We recorded some coconut planting done in Nigeria with Silvi and hope we did it correctly. I would love to learn more about the inner workings of the silvi app as the trees grows to maturity and beyond.

(I accidently deleted my previous post).

[lanzdingz]

Great questions!

Yes the $200 is meant to be a startup grant to help you get whatever supplies you need for getting started. I know LA used them to buy soil, seeds, seedling trays etc. In Ottawa we used ours to buy saplings (as its really hard to germinate and grow from seeds here without a full year greenhouse because of how harsh our winters are).

Regardless of what you are doing, you would take photos of your progress and upload it into the Silvi app - it will automatically track your geolocation and pin you to the global map.

You do have to set up a profile and add in more information about the species/region etc - so I’d double check that step. Once you have that, it is just uploading ****please note that you MUST upload the photo from the physical location of where it is planted. It will not let you upload images from different location - this is part of how it tracks real planting, vs ‘gaming’ the system.

You do get paid a small reward (cents) for continuing to track the lifespan of the seeds/saplings/trees as they grow. You would upload photos of their growth onto the Silvi app over time.

If you are handing these out to the community like Ottawa GPN has, you can set up a system on the Silvi app where most of the rewards are given to the tree stewards(people planting and maintaining the health of the planted trees), and a small % goes back to the original organizer or in our case, Chapter. In Canada, the rewards are very small, but in different regions, these can have a large impact on the tree steward’s ability to make a small income (a great impact we can help facilitate as chapters with the community).

Here is a demo on how the Silvi app works - screen-20240223-173450.mp4 - Google Drive

I am hoping to organize a more formal demo, Q&A with Djimo from Silvi if we have enough people interested.