Taking Root is a pioneering organization dedicated to utilizing reforestation as a powerful means to restore ecosystems, enhance livelihoods, and combat the pressing challenge of climate change. By placing reforestation at the heart of their mission, Taking Root strives to address multiple environmental and social issues simultaneously. The organization operates by offering carbon footprint management services and reforestation carbon offsets to both businesses and individuals. Through the sale of these services, Taking Root generates crucial funding to support their impactful initiatives. By engaging businesses and individuals in carbon offsetting, Taking Root empowers them to take responsibility for their carbon emissions and actively contribute to environmental restoration.
Taking Root's reforestation efforts have a profound impact on ecosystems, promoting biodiversity, preventing soil erosion, and restoring degraded lands. Moreover, these activities offer substantial benefits to local communities, improving livelihoods by creating sustainable employment opportunities and fostering economic development. By leveraging the power of reforestation, Taking Root not only helps restore the planet's natural balance but also addresses climate change, one of the greatest challenges of our time. Their visionary approach serves as a catalyst for positive change, offering individuals and businesses a tangible way to make a lasting difference in the fight against climate change and the preservation of our precious ecosystems.
The sections below describe the steps required for users of Taking Root's technology platform
to start producing carbon estimates. It is important to note that the mobile application was designed for rural smallholder farming contexts where cellular reception is often unavailable. As such, all the activities on the mobile application outlined below can be conducted offline and later synced to the web platform when service becomes available. The following sections describe the three steps for using the technology platform: 1) mapping a parcel, 2) setting up the sampling plots, and 3) collecting tree measurements in the plots.
