101 Derrick Emsley | Planting 57 Million Trees

Redirected

Andrew East

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5 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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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

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Redirected. My name is Andrew East and this is a show all about
0:11.4	life's unexpected events. We all go through them and whether it's your career or some family
0:16.3	issue, I wanted to sit down with people who have made it through these unexpected events
0:20.1	well in order to glean some wisdom and also hear some interesting stories to go with it.
0:25.2	Today we're continuing our Forbes 30 under 30 series talking with young people who are
0:29.3	redirecting the future and changing the course of what the next generation is going to look
0:34.6	like and our guest today is Derek Imzli. He is the co founder and CEO of TinTree which is a earth
0:42.4	first lifestyle apparel company. The mission of the company is to plant tin trees for every
0:48.4	piece of clothing sold and so far the company has planted over 35 million trees that provide
0:54.4	local jobs, food security and environmental benefits. It's an amazing story and he's an amazing
1:00.4	guy so I appreciate him taking the time to sit down with me. If you want to learn more about Derek
1:04.6	and what he's up to including all about his company TinTree, if you go buy a shirt from them you will
1:09.3	help contribute to the planting of tin trees which is amazing. Anyway I will link all his information
1:15.0	down below and if you haven't please subscribe to the show and give it a rating on whatever platform
1:19.1	you're listening on. Without further ado I bring you Derek Imzli. Derek Pleasant Amija thanks
1:24.1	for taking the time to sit down today. Yeah man great to be here thanks for having me.
1:29.2	Listen so we were kind of just jib jabbing before but the number 50 million what does that mean to you?
1:37.9	It's a pretty special number for us you know we've been doing this now for about eight years and
1:46.8	as of this week we're gonna we're gonna have planted our 50 million tree so yeah it's a pretty
1:53.4	special number right now for us. Is that all the trees that have ever been planted in the world?
2:00.3	I'm trying to think 50 million man. Yeah it's a big number you know and it's it's
2:05.4	funny because our goal is a billion that's the big goal that we set out where we say you know by
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