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It looks a lot of overheads for something that is supposed to be helpful for the environment. Why not just donate the equivalent of 1-year amount of your [what

It looks a lot of overheads for something that is supposed to be helpful for the environment. Why not just donate the equivalent of 1-year amount of your [whatever event-triggered actions] directly to one of these Reforestation projects? It saves your time, the cost of running server (albeit not much) while doing the same amount of help.

protontypes 5y ago
It depends on how you implement the measure. In the future, we want to determine reforestation based on the carbon emissions of products. With the help of projects like https://gitter.im/hubblo-org/scaphandre https://gitter.im/hubblo-org/scaphandre or https://www.electricitymap.org/map https://www.electricitymap.org/map, this would be easy to do for energy consumption. In this way, digital services can be transparently and recurrently compensated for emissions in the long term.
underdeserver 5y ago
It is less overhead. Sign up once, then just add a single REST call to your billing flow.
- tgv 5y ago
  Except there is now a middleman that also wants part of the cash. The only advantage I see is that it's impossible for one of the CFO's bootlickers to kill the payment without anyone else knowing. Edit: apparently digitalhumani doesn't cream off.
  - DigitalHumani 5y ago
    Hi, Jonathan here, founder of the RaaS (Reforestation as a Service) at DigitalHumani.com Our solution is 100% free. We are a group of IT-oriented volunteers concerned about climate change, and we pay ourselves for the costs of the solution (which is quite cheap though). Our RaaS (Reforestation as a Service) API was built because most reforestation organizations do not have APIs. These organizations know lot about trees, climate and reforestation, less so about IT. We help them get the money they need to plant the trees (1$ per tree) by providing the API for free. The API is used in lots of ways right now by our clients: Planting a tree when someone subscribes to a newsletter, buys something, refer a friend for a mobile app, fills a survey, charge their electric car, etc. It is much easier for our clients to just choose a reforestation project they want to donate to and add the call to the API in their code.

protontypes 5y ago

It depends on how you implement the measure. In the future, we want to determine reforestation based on the carbon emissions of products. With the help of projects like https://gitter.im/hubblo-org/scaphandre https://gitter.im/hubblo-org/scaphandre or https://www.electricitymap.org/map https://www.electricitymap.org/map, this would be easy to do for energy consumption. In this way, digital services can be transparently and recurrently compensated for emissions in the long term.

underdeserver 5y ago

It is less overhead. Sign up once, then just add a single REST call to your billing flow.

tgv 5y ago
Except there is now a middleman that also wants part of the cash. The only advantage I see is that it's impossible for one of the CFO's bootlickers to kill the payment without anyone else knowing. Edit: apparently digitalhumani doesn't cream off.
- DigitalHumani 5y ago
  Hi, Jonathan here, founder of the RaaS (Reforestation as a Service) at DigitalHumani.com Our solution is 100% free. We are a group of IT-oriented volunteers concerned about climate change, and we pay ourselves for the costs of the solution (which is quite cheap though). Our RaaS (Reforestation as a Service) API was built because most reforestation organizations do not have APIs. These organizations know lot about trees, climate and reforestation, less so about IT. We help them get the money they need to plant the trees (1$ per tree) by providing the API for free. The API is used in lots of ways right now by our clients: Planting a tree when someone subscribes to a newsletter, buys something, refer a friend for a mobile app, fills a survey, charge their electric car, etc. It is much easier for our clients to just choose a reforestation project they want to donate to and add the call to the API in their code.