Ep. 236 A Tree Planting Business - Drives Progressive Fashion with Derrick Emsley

Todays guest is Derrick Emsley founder of TenTree A Tree Planting Business - Drives Progressive Fashion. 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 totalled 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 TEN TREE, an apparel company that plants ten trees for every piece of clothing sold. So far, the company has planted right around 50 million trees - providing local jobs, food security and environmental benefits.