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Podcast: Green Planet Blue Planet Podcast
Episode: Ep. 236 A Tree Planting Business - Drives Progressive Fashion with Derrick Emsley
Description: Todays guest is Derrick Emsley founder of TenTree A Tree Planting Business - Drives Progressive Fashion.
At 16, Derrick and his brother founded a tree planting company that was meant to capitalize on the future of sustainability: carbon offsetting credits. They planted over 150,000 trees while selling carbon offset contracts that totalled over $1 million.
While carbon offsetting ended up not being the future, this experience was just the beginning of his tree planting journey. During college Derrick worked with his fellow co-founders to start TEN TREE, an apparel company that plants ten trees for every piece of...