101 Derrick Emsley | Planting 57 Million Trees
Today, we are continuing our Forbes 30 under 30 series with Derrick Emsley. At 16, Derrick and his brother founded a tree planting company that was meant to capitalize on the future of sustainability: carbon offsetting credits. They planted over 150,000 trees while selling carbon offset contracts that totaled over $1 million. While carbon offsetting ended up not being the future, this experience was just the beginning of his tree planting journey. During college, Derrick worked with his fellow co-founders to start tentree, an apparel company that plants ten trees for every piece of clothing sold. So far, the company has planted over 35 million trees - providing local jobs, food security, and environmental benefits If you haven’t yet, please rate Redirected and subscribe to hear more. And if you have someone you'd like to see on the podcast, send us your recommendations in the comments below! And follow along with the conversation over on Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/theredirect... Last but not least, be sure to check out the links below to learn more about Derrick and all she's got going on at the moment. Check out his company tentree here ▶ https://www.tentree.com/ Follow them on Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/tentree/ Follow Derrick on Instagram ▶ https://www.instagram.com/derrickemsley/ Subscribe to the Redirected YT Channel! ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqUr... Follow Me on Twitter ▶ http://www.twitter.com/AndrewDEast Follow Me on Instagram ▶ http://www.instagram.com/AndrewDEast... Like the Facebook page! ▶ http://www.facebook.com/AndrewDEast... Snapchat! ▶ @AndrewDEast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices