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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…

Posted on 2018-11-08

TreeCards

With EcoMatcher, companies can adopt trees and give those trees to customers and employees for reward, engagement, loyalty and event purposes.   Those tree gifts are digital products. That has numerous benefits, such as no waste is created which is better for the environment, no…

Posted on 2018-10-19

The New Sustainability – Regeneration

By Marie Stafford, European Director, The Innovation Group, J Walter Thompson [reprinted with permission]   The future of sustainability will focus on regeneration, with pioneering brands at the heart of the effort.   2018 has seen record heat waves on four continents, wildfires in the…

Posted on 2018-08-08

Introducing the Planter Fan Page (PFP)

As you probably know, EcoMatcher offers companies creative and sustainable solutions to better engage with stakeholders. Through EcoMatcher, companies can adopt specific trees planted by vetted sustainable tree planting organizations in a range of countries. EcoMatcher provides for each tree all data, including the planter caring…

Posted on 2018-07-10

Why Transparency in Tree Planting Matters

Current tree planting initiatives offer little transparency and as a result, insufficiently engage and scale. However, once details are known of each tree planted – its precise location, the date of planting, the species and the farmer taking care of that tree, and you digitize…