2. About Grow-Trees.com
• We are a web-enabled social business that offers the service of planting trees on
government and community lands at INR 50 a tree.
• Users can:
I. Greet for birthdays, anniversaries, festivals and special occasions
II. Offset carbon emissions from daily activities
• Custom e-certificates are sent out to the person to whom the tree has been dedicated
to for no additional fee
I. Multiple e-certificates can be sent out at once
II. Automatic delivery throughout the year
• We physically plant trees through our planting partners
Trees provide food, shade and shelter to humans and wildlife
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3. Planting Process
Trees are planted
Trees are only Saplings are in
to benefit rural
planted on nurseries for
communities,
government or several months
wildlife, forests,
community land before planting
or holy environs
Communities
Only indigenous Stone walls are
plant the trees
trees are planted erected if
themselves and
and biodiversity necessary to
are paid for their
is maintained. protect planting
labour
Communities
Pictures of
benefit from fruit, Independent
planting put on
fodder and non- auditors visit site
social media and
timber forest to verify planting
our website
produce
Trees filter our air and keep it fresh by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen
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4. Our Projects
This is a 50,000
mangrove project to
restore the mangroves of
the holy temple towns of
Dwarka and Harshad in
Gujarat.
This project
involves planting
50,000 trees in the
periphery of
Kumbhalgarh
Sactuary in
Rajasthan
Trees improve water quality by slowing and filtering rain water and they protect aquifers and
watersheds
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5. Our Projects
This is a 20,000 tree
project on the common
land of villages near the
town of Madanapalle in
Andhra Pradesh to gives
poor rural communities
fruit, fodder and forest
produce.
This project
involves planting
20,000 trees in
Chintamani,
Karnataka
With a life of over 40 years, a tree provides benefits to current and future generations of living
creatures and beautifies surroundings
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6. Our Projects
Kanha National This project
Park is one of the
India’s finest tiger
involves planting
reserves. Kanha 50,000 trees in
also shelters one of
the largest
the periphery
populations of Kanha National
tigers in the country
(131 tigers as on Park in Madhya
June 2006). Some Pradesh
of the other larger
animal species The Sanctuary covers an area of
found in the park 530.01 sq. km The sanctuary has
This project about 38 mammals (including 11
are sloth bears
(111 as of 2000), involves tigers, 19 leopards and 155
leopards (80 as in elephants), 126 birds, 28 reptiles, 4
2000), wild dogs
planting amphibians (including the
(396 as in 2000), 30,000 trees in endangered Gharial) and 183
striped hyena, species of fish. About 400 species
spotted dear, wild
the periphery of plants have been recorded in the
boars, jungle cats, of Satkosia Sanctuary out of which 126 are
jackals and a trees, 98 shrubs, 125 herbs and 51
variety of monkeys. Gorge Wildlife climbers. The Sanctuary has 35
villages in the core area, 80 villages
Sanctuary in in the buffer zone and 105 villages
Orissa in the periphery.
Trees are carbon sinks, accumulating carbon as they grow
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7. Our Projects
This was a 19,000 tree
project in the
Panchmahal district of
Gujarat
This project successfully
planted 29,990 trees over an
area of 100 hectares. This
project positively impacts the
lives of 3500 villagers in the
villages of Tegra, Karech,
Thadi Beri and Dhimdi in the
Udaipur district of Rajasthan
Trees offer protection from the downward fall of rain, sleet and hail as well as reduce storm run-off
and the possibility of flooding
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8. Benefits of our Projects
The fruit, non-timber forest produce and fodder from
our projects are used by rural communities in the
area, a vast majority of whom live below the poverty
line, and really helps them augment their income
and conserve their disposable income. In our project
in the Panchmahal district of Gujarat, 40% of the
communities’ disposable income is spent procuring
cooking fuel which can be substituted with fallen
twigs and branches.
Several of our projects are in tiger reserves and
wildlife sanctuaries, which restore degraded areas in
the periphery of the sanctuaries and help prevent
man-animal conflict.
The trees planted are all indigenous and include
species like Custard Apple, Amla, Khair, Neem and Our project in the Udaipur district of Rajasthan
Black Siris to maintain the biodiversity of the area.
Neem has anti-bacterial properties that help in fighting against skin infections such as acne,
psoriasis, scabies, eczema, etc.
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9. Benefits to Organizations
Customer Rewards
Plant trees to reward loyal or premium Employee Engagement
customers Project a positive corporate image to the
employees through voluntary payroll
Offset Carbon Emissions contribution schemes
Plant trees to offset carbon emissions from
business activities and build an Cost Control
environmentally responsible corporate image Plant a tree for every customers who
switches to electronic statements
Corporate Social Responsibility
Convey in corporate communications your Green Festive Greetings
company’s sense of social responsibility. Celebrate this Christmas or Diwali by
Several surveys show that customers prefer planting trees and sending e-certificates
green companies Honour Employees
Run a Green Drive at No Cost Plant a tree to celebrate every employee’s
Allow your customers to plant trees. Promote birthday or honour new recruits or retiring
the planting of trees through brochures, employees. Plant trees to recognize
posters or pamphlets anniversaries or target achievement
Innovative Marketing Honour Stakeholders
Plant trees for every new customer and Plant trees to honor dealers, distributors or
successfully differentiate from your suppliers
competitors
Tree planting creates low-skilled jobs
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10. Process Flow
Send us the name, email id and message for each
recipient and we will issue co-branded e-certificates
on your behalf.
No minimum number of trees that need to be planted.
Lifetime Corporate account with complete gifting
history.
Your company and logo will be permanently
displayed on our corporate supporters page and will
also be posted on our Facebook and Twitter pages.
Clean energy solutions like solar lanterns or windmills first increase carbon emissions and then
contribute to a solution; each tree absorbs about 20 Kg of carbon dioxide per year and contributes to
the solution immediately
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11. Corporate Collaboration Options
Need: Demonstrate green credentials and save costs
Franklin Templeton, Kotak Credit Cards, HSBC Global Asset Management plant trees for customers
who waive printed statements
Need: Introduce ‘Green’ products
Complemented Goodyear’s launch of eco-friendly tires and Mahindra Reva’s electric vehicle drive in
Europe
Need: Recognize high-performing customers and new client acquisitions
Kansai Nerolac, Abbot, The Nature’s Co, Chamomile, Western Consolidated and Cedar
Need: Celebrate employee birthdays or anniversaries or honour new recruits
SBI Life, Rallis India, Blackstone, Aricent, Luthra & Luthra, Tata Teleservices and Panasonic
Need: Green greeting on festivals
Patni Computers, Times Now
Need: Offset carbon emissions
JM Financial
Need: Run a green drive allowing your customers to plant trees
Oxford bookstore, Elbo Room and Mocha Coffee Chain
Need: Honour dealers, suppliers or distributers
Kansai Nerolac
Deforestation is contributing almost 20% to the overall greenhouse gas emissions in the
atmosphere, more than the world’s vehicles and aircrafts combined.
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12. Key Clientele
The world’s rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of
deforestation.
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14. Media Coverage
Name Date
Business India 16th Oct 2011
Hindustan Times 9th June 2011
Terra Green Magazine 11th May 2011
Business Line 8th May 2011
CNN - IBN 8th May 2011
Sunday Guardian 3rd May 2011
Times of India 4th Mar 2011
Times Out Magazine 10th Oct 2010
Yahoo India 20th Aug 2010
E-commodity World 5th July 2010
Gujarati Mid-Day 3rd July 2010
Hindustan Times 3rd June 2010
“Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.” - Rabindranath Tagore
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