folio · I — planting

A small, permanent record
of a good thing you did.

Plant a tree. Photograph it. Sign it into a ledger that does not forget.

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“A tree is not an offset. It is a tree.”

folio · II — the proof

What you just read is already real.

Each entry below was planted by a person with a name, on a day you can look up, in a place you can see on a map. Each has a photograph and a signature that no one — not the planter, not this site, not a future government — can quietly revise.

  • forthcoming

    hands preparing ground

    hands preparing ground

  • forthcoming

    a sapling waits

    a sapling waits

  • forthcoming

    field planting, central India

    field planting, central India

  • forthcoming

    dune restoration

    dune restoration

↑ placeholder plates — these get replaced by the team’s signed entries.

folio · III — the three steps

Three steps. One record.

The entire app. It will stay this simple. The difficult parts — species data, verification, registry partners — are kept behind the scenes so you can keep your attention on the tree.

  1. step I

    Plant.

    Any tree, anywhere you have the right to plant one. A balcony pot counts. A grandmother’s field counts. The school ground counts.

  2. step II

    Photograph.

    The photo carries a location, a timestamp, and a small AI witness that confirms a sapling is actually in the frame. Your name — or a pseudonym — goes on the record.

  3. step III

    Sign.

    A cryptographic signature — the kind banks and governments use — is attached to your entry and written to a public ledger. About six seconds. Cannot be deleted.

folio · IV — why this

Somewhere in the last twenty years,
caring for the planet became a spreadsheet.

This is a place where it becomes a tree again. A small one, photographed, located, and signed — but an actual tree, attached forever to the person who put it in the ground.

  • ✕ obsolete

    self-reported ESG prose

    A paragraph of unverifiable sustainability claims, replaced by a cryptographic receipt.

  • ✕ obsolete

    the transactional charity receipt

    The 80G receipt becomes the tree itself: specific, located, growing, re-verifiable.

  • ✕ obsolete

    the assumption a good deed dies with the doer

    Your grandfather planted a mango tree; nobody remembers which. This makes small stewardship inheritable.

  • ● kept

    the act, as it is

    A tree is not an offset. It is a tree.

folio · V — house rules

A few things we keep believing.

  1. № 01

    A record outlives the person who made it.

  2. № 02

    Good work done in private deserves a public witness.

  3. № 03

    A signature is a quieter kind of promise.

  4. № 04

    We are building a ledger, not a brand.

  5. № 05

    The tree in the ground is still the point.

This is where we started. What comes next, we will build with the same rules: permanent, signed, non-deletable, individual.

folio · VI — early access

We open the ledger
to a few at a time.

Today the team plants. Next: a handful of you. Leave an email if you’d like to plant something the internet will remember.

no newsletters. one note when it’s your turn.

folio · VII — the visitor seal

Before you leave,
you too are witnessed.

A small signature for your visit — no account, no tracking, no data saved. A quiet demonstration that this site signs whatever passes through it, including you.

visitor seal · ephemeral

● signed

preparing…

you came through. that, too, is a record.