Make money
Trees and bushes are an excellent way to make money. In this download document governments, investors, NGO’s or other interested parties can calculate how they can make money and in the same time help solving one or more of the 7 world problems
- Food crisis
- Climate change
- Sinking ground water levels
- Rural-urban migration
- Shortage of drinking water
- Cutting the last forests on Earth
- Population growth to 10 billion
This can be done through planting trees and bushes.
Here are three templates with financial models for reforestation projects which you can download:
- Financial model for reforestation projects with assumptions for Africa
- Financial model for reforestation projects with assumptions for Europe
- Financial model for reforestation projects with assumptions for the USA
The documents are interactive so if you change the information in the cells, the figures will show the results for your local circumstances.
Listen to what 2 specialists think about investing in trees:
Podcast - Bob Izlar: Forest investment grows as solid alternative to gold and carbon
Bob Izlar, Director of the Center for Forest Business at the University
of Georgia in the U.S about investment in trees.
Go to the Podcast at http://www.southem.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1293&It\&&&emid=1
Podcast: Tom Harris on the Timber Investment Conference and global trade
Tom Harris, who is on the faculty at the UGA Warnell School of Forest
Resources, explains that it is becoming more and more important for investors in
timberland to take into account the ever-increasing growth of the global
trade in forest products.
Go to the podcast at http://www.southem.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1292&It\&&&emid=1
