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Posted on 2019-09-12

The Power of Small: How Smaller Organisations​ Can Make a Difference in the Environment

Corporate social responsibility initiatives are in the consciousness of most large, medium-sized or small organisations. Increasingly, as environmental change gets louder, more extensive and tougher to ignore, with more people feeling the impacts of climate change,many of these organisations and businesses are choosing to move towards CSR initiatives…

Posted on 2019-09-08

The Restoration Economy and the Value of Trees

The idea of restoration economy has been around for a few years, but is only now being recognized for its value. In the face of recent natural disasters and climate change, scientists and researchers have put forth the idea that natural barriers are the best…

Posted on 2019-09-01

Including Sustainable Development Goals in your Business Plan

The United Nations (UN) put forth a set of Sustainable Development Goals in 2016, and in 2019, they’re still as relevant. As the number of businesses multiplies, the economy of business is slowly drifting into uncharted waters. However, the public still tends to run a demolition…

Posted on 2019-08-24

Life of a Tree Planter

[Guest blog by Chime Ngawang, intern EcoMatcher June – August 2019] Here at EcoMatcher, we provide tree planting as business solutions, connecting trees planted in various communities across the world with corporations that can utilize trees for innovative purposes. But what is it like, living…

Posted on 2019-08-13

EcoMatcher Launching WooCommerce Plug-in for Tree-planting

Hong Kong, 13st of August 2019– EcoMatcher is proud and excited to launch the “EcoMatcher for WooCommerce” plug-in. This plug-in enables any company using WooCommerce to easily integrate tree planting into their e-commerce system. WooCommerce, an e-commerce plugin for WordPress, powers 480,000 online stores, 29% of the total…

Posted on 2019-08-05

How to calculate CO2 sequestration

A key “feature” of a tree is that trees sequester carbon –  the process of removal and long-term storage of carbon dioxide (CO2) from our atmosphere. EcoMatcher estimates that the trees planted by our partners sequester CO2 at an average of 50 pounds per tree per year;…

Posted on 2019-07-16

Forest 2.0: Planting Your Own Forest is Now Easy and Cool

Hong Kong, July 16, 2019 – EcoMatcher is stepping up its offering of planting a forest, making planting a forest cool. When a company decides to plant a forest1 with EcoMatcher, the company will have access to all details from all trees in that forest. The company…

Posted on 2019-05-01

Tree Channel Partner Program: More Partners, More Trees!

Hong Kong, May 1, 2019–  EcoMatcher is proudly introducing its Tree Channel Partner (TCP) program. The TCP program enables certified Partners to offer trees to their clients and use EcoMatcher’s digital platform to fully customize the tree offerings for their clients. Trees can be used for corporate gifting,…

Posted on 2019-03-12

How Bad is Climate Change?

Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg), the 16 year old from Sweden who initiated the first school strike for climate, may have a point: there is no reason to go to school, as there will be no future. Unless we act. And as David Wallace -Wells describes in…

Posted on 2019-02-16

EcoMatcher in the SCMP

For those who are not familiar with the South China Morning Post (SCMP), this is Hong Kong’s famous daily English newspaper. Every month entrepreneurs are being interviewed for SCMP’s Saturday edition. Very proud to be covered! Please find here the link to the article: https://www.cpjobs.com/hk/article/impact-investing-social-for-profit-venture-that-plant-trees

Posted on 2019-01-26

Plant A Forest

Hong Kong, January 25, 2019– EcoMatcher now offers customers the possibility to plant a forest, give that forest a name and use the trees in the forest for various loyalty programs while offsetting their negative environmental impact.   When ordering a forest, EcoMatcher will work…

Posted on 2018-12-12

TreeChat

  Hong Kong, December 12, 2018 –Just in time for the holiday season, EcoMatcher is launching Treechat, a new way to engage with nature and, well, trees.   What is TreeChat?   EcoMatcher’s platform makes it easy for businesses and individuals to adopt trees from…