Posts by ACRE Investment Management
Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, GreenTrees Plant Seedlings to Launch Virginia’s First Reforestation Project for Generating Carbon Credits
GreenTrees will plant 60,000 trees on 95 total acres in Fauquier and Shenandoah Counties to jump start Virginia’s participation in fast-growing environmental markets for combating climate change
Read MoreHoney Brake Lodge: The Greatest Thing for Wildlife in Louisiana I’ve Ever Seen
One approaches Honey Brake Lodge in east-central Louisiana the only landward way you can—carefully bumping along a dirt road in billows of fine dust, passing swampland and the occasional tiny farmhouse wilting in the heat. A sideroad is reached, and one stops before a conspicuously elaborate gated drive. The gate rolls back and the visitor…
Read MoreEnviva and GreenTrees Partner to Remove 90,000 Metric Tons of CO2e through Afforestation and Nature-Based Carbon Removal Credit Programs in Southeastern U.S.
This project breathes new life into land that is no longer viable for agriculture while providing alternate sources of income to rural landowners within Enviva’s operating footprint. BETHESDA, Md. and THE PLAINS, Va. – December 1, 2022 – Enviva (NYSE: EVA), the world’s leading producer of sustainably sourced woody biomass, and GreenTrees, the market leader in reforestation and carbon removal…
Read MoreCreating a Wildlife Paradise
“Anytime we can take land that shouldn’t ever have been clear cut during the agricultural and industrial revolutions, and put it into reforestation—that’s healing a lot of damage, and it’s only a positive.”
Read MoreGreenTrees Announces $8.2M Distribution to Landowner Partners Through Nature-Based Carbon Removal Credit Program
The economic impact of distribution benefits disadvantaged areas of the U.S., including some of the country’s most impoverished counties THE PLAINS, Va. – October 11, 2022 – GreenTrees, the market leader in reforestation and carbon removal in the U.S., today announced the largest monetary distribution in the organization’s history to farmers and landowners in…
Read MoreICE to Host Auctions of Nature-Based Carbon Removal Credits for GreenTrees
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a leading global provider of data, technology, and market infrastructure, today announced that it plans to begin carbon credit auctions for GreenTrees, a global leader in reforestation.
Read MoreThe Reboot (Replanting) Program Helps Mississippi Landowners at No Cost
Healthy land is the basis for multiple industries in Mississippi, and critical to the state economy. A natural disaster or severe weather event in one area can affect the entire state. For individual landowners, land damage can be devastating, both personally and financially. GreenTrees, an organization dedicated to reforestation, is helping local landowners recover from…
Read MoreGreenTrees Forests: A Landowners Natural Piggy Bank
We’re all familiar with the chubby pink piggy bank meant for kids. Even if you didn’t have one, the idea is rooted in our earliest economic lessons. Regardless of the type of piggy bank you had, the lesson was the same. You put money in, and it stayed there, safe and sound until you needed…
Read MoreTrue Economic Relief Through Forestry and Conservation
Conversations about job creation rarely center on forests. Yet, the forestry sector is a critical driver of economic growth worldwide – so much so that the World Bank has called it “the backbone for rural development.” Research shows that investing in afforestation and restoration projects can create short- and long-term economic prosperity. A study of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revealed that every $1 million spent on reforestation and restoration projects creates 17 jobs. This percentage is by far the highest job creation estimate per million dollars spent of any sector.
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