Community Food Crop Trees Project, Kilauea, hawai'i
Project: Providing Food crop Trees to the Community with Mālama Kauaʻi.
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Rose Hayes | email@malamakauai.org
Food Crop Trees
USA
Hawai'i / Kilauea
no certification (small project)
25.00 US$/t (1ton is enough to offset approx. 110gal of gasoline, 1350kWh of electricity or 4.5 hours of flight time*)
Why should I support this project?
Support local (Hawai'i) farmers and their partner Mālama Kauai in strengthening Hawaiʻiʻs local food supply. This project will make locally propagated food crop trees
available to the Kauaʻi Community at no cost. Offset your emissions and select this project to tackle multiple issues at the same time.
Climate Impact:
Project Drawdown Climate Solution Rating: 14 (Tropical Staple Trees) out of the 80 best solutions to tackle climate change.
By supporting this project YOU are supporting the following goals of the Sustainable Hawai'i Initiative:
In addition, YOU are supporting the following UN Sustainable Development Goals:
This project will propagate and distribute locally grown food crop trees to individuals, organizations and institutions (such as schools) in partnership with Mālama Kauai in Kilauea, Kauai. Your contribution will be used to fund tree propagation and distribution at $50/tree. By supporting this project, you will actively contribute to increase local food production, create local jobs and keep funding in Hawaii.
Support this project directly by offsetting your emissions.
Not sure how much to offset?
Carbon Mitigation Package including support to provide food crops at no cost to the community.
With this offset package you are actively strengthening Hawaiʻiʻs food supply upporting Hawai'i`s transition towards 100% renewable energy and local food production.
You can choose different amounts of offsetting depending on your needs in 0.5t increments. The price of this offset package is 25.00US$/t. With each $25 this package includes
- the offset of 1 ton of carbon dioxide through one of our certified international offset projects
- a contribution to the project described
Through the combination of projects we are able to support more expensive small scale local projects while making sure your emissions are mitigated via certified projects and emission reduction
certificates will be retired on your behalf. You will receive one certificate stating the total amount you chose to offset in this purchase. If you need several certificates,
please make multiple purchases. Mahalo.
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Please note: 1 ton is equivalent to 2,205lbs.
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*The values displayed are only intended to give you an estimate. Emissions produced by electricity consumption can vary greatly depending on how the electricity at your place of residence is generated. Emission estimate for flights include climate impact through contrails and ozone formation but also depend on aircraft type, travel class and seat capacity utilization.
