How To Have Global Impact
Droneseeding is a game-changer for one reason: the numbers. One team with two operators flying twelve drones can plant hundreds of thousands of seeds in a single day. One small team can plant hundreds of millions of seeds in a few months. Imagine 50 teams planting 15 billion seeds in one year.
Numbers like these can have global impact. |
Technology for good. |
All this is possible because of recent developments in drone technology. First, mapping drones make 3D terrain maps. Planting drones follow, dropping biodegradable seedpods with primed seeds and optimized nutrients onto the soil. Non-toxic herbicides, pesticides, and animal repellent can be included in the seedpod or programmed after planting in targeted applications. Post-planting can also include monitoring, plant health indices, and a broad spectrum of analytics to help the seeds become a thriving forest. |
Droneseeding is how we scale it all up.
Doing it together makes it possible.To preserve a livable future for humanity we have to scale up faster. 50 teams can plant 15 billion seeds in a year - that's billion with a B - but even these gigantic numbers fall far far short – 15b is the number of trees Earth already loses every year. If 20% of the 15b seeds we disperse become trees, that’s 3 billion restored trees – and we're still losing 12b trees, every year. To offset that loss, much less increase the number of trees on the planet, we’ll need 2,500 droneseeding teams operating full time. That’s a huge target. But if we have any hope of keeping our planet green and our ecosystems from further collapse, we need huge numbers and everyone’s help.
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