Neutral

Live carbon neutral and create a better future.

7 followers

Live carbon neutral and create a better future.

7 followers

Create your profile, calculate your yearly carbon emissions and offset them with a simple monthly subscription. Choose from 27 different offset programs across 17 countries and read up on your program’s overview, impact and what species of trees are planted.

Launch tags:Android•iOS•Crowdfunding

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Climeworks Pioneers

Looks great! May I ask how the carbon footprint is roughly calculated? Is is an average over countries / products for example? Just curious because we are working on the same topic and are always wondering about how to best do this :-)

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6yr ago

Ultracite

Maker

@ldeddens Hey thanks Liesbeth! We actually calculate it from ground up using a few key categories (like utilities, expenses and travel) and formulas from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, then show you how you compare to country averages 😄

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6yr ago

Pelion

Lovely idea, but ... why would I choose a country instead of just choosing to maximize my impact, wherever in the world that may be? Seems like you're missing an opportunity to provide the most value possible for the globe by letting the users choose themselves. I'd like the option to offset as much as possible at the smallest cost possible.

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6yr ago

Ultracite

Maker

@sebastianwinther Hey Sebastian, the organisations that we work with offer a flat cost for reforestation programs anywhere in the world! Getting the most trees planted for your buck is definitely important, but for first launch we opted for choice. We do have something on the roadmap for automatically maximising your impact. 🙂

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6yr ago

Ultracite

Maker

👋 Hello Product Hunt! Founder / maker here. I started working on Neutral after Black Summer (the period of unusually intense bushfires that ravaged many parts of Australia). I realised our government isn't acting against climate change quick enough, so I decided to try and tackle the problem head-on. Initially I started by trying to reduce my own carbon footprint in my daily life. Swapping Uber rides for walking, reducing electricity usage around the house and taking less flights (though to be honest, COVID may have been a helpful factor here). It's virtually impossible nowadays to live a carbon neutral lifestyle, so I started looking at reforestation - the primary method of offsetting your carbon emissions. There are a bunch of organisations out there that allow you to make donations, but they're typically one-off. There's also a bunch of calculators online to estimate your emissions, but I found them either inaccurate or hard to use. I also found a few people building in this space (which is brilliant) but none of them supported reforestation programs in Australia. That's why I started building Neutral: an app to help you live carbon neutral and create a better future by planting trees in the country of your choice. By working with existing organisations, we're able to offer 27 different offset programs across 17 countries so you can make an impact in your own backyard. I hope you'll join me in my mission to combat climate change! 🤔 When you've had a chance to try it out, I'd love to know your thoughts. 💡 If you have ideas, there's a roadmap that you can access through the app settings. Feel free to suggest anything you'd like. 🐞 If you run into any bugs let me know and I'll have them resolved ASAP. Much love 🌲

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6yr ago

Bone Health Tracker

@haydenbleasel Congratulations on the launch! Neutral could be solving this need gap - 'Calculating climate impact for everyday tasks' - posted on my problem validation platform - https://needgap.com/problems/36-... . You're welcomed to explain how Neutral solves their problem, so those who need it can find it easily.

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6yr ago

Growth Marketing Checklists

Fantastic work Hayden! Amazing design and love the concept! "I started working on Neutral after Black Summer (the period of unusually intense bushfires that ravaged many parts of Australia). I realised our government isn't acting against climate change quick enough, so I decided to try and tackle the problem head-on." - this to me is spot on and love this initiative. Awesome work legend :)

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6yr ago

Ultracite

Maker

@dansiepen Thank you mate, so excited to share this with people who understand the problem. Hope Cenario is going well too! ❤️

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6yr ago

Growth Marketing Checklists

@haydenbleasel Thanks legend I appreciate it :)

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6yr ago

Awesome design as always @haydenbleasel - it's incredible to see you turn your skills to the environmental space 💪

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6yr ago

Ultracite

Maker

@17twenty Thanks Nick! Super refreshing to work on something for social good. Already creating a moodboard for the next version haha.

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6yr ago

Nice work @haydenbleasel - any way that we can gamify eco friendly behaviours is great in my book. You probably know of Aspiration (the online bank), they have a very interesting tool that scores your purchases in terms of eco friendliness eg Company A is carbon neutral, Company B is not. Buying from Company A gives you a higher score. Very quickly gets you to change your behaviour. Something similar on Neutral would be a really nice feature to also tie your purchasing to your carbon footprint

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6yr ago

Ultracite

Maker

@ronanawall Thanks Ronan, definitely agree. I’ve been thinking about something similar as an upcoming feature, glad to hear this is something you’d find value in 😄

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6yr ago

Generally I give apps 3 strikes policy before deleting when requesting intrusive permissions or information. I never even made it passed the onboarding screens for this app before deleting after it asked for email, mobile phone number and access to photos!

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6yr ago

Ultracite

Maker

@lukehearn Hey Luke, sorry to hear! Setting up your profile is totally optional and is primarily used to connect with friends. If you’d rather not provide that info, you can just jump straight into planting trees!

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6yr ago

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