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Jules — Offset your carbon footprint entirely
Calculate your carbon footprint based on your purchase history and understand where you stand. Choose a project or technology you believe in. See your money become part of the solution with a monthly offset to eliminate your calculated carbon footprint.
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Caleb Boise
@assadab @jeffrey_nolte So excited you are bringing this tool to the world! Great concept, and super easy to use to drive big environmental impact!
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@jeffrey_nolte @boiseofreason Thank you! Let us know if you have any feedback or comments!
Making ofsetting of person's carbon footprint so easy and transparent is a really good mission. Good luck, guys!
@ahmedsaleh Thank you! Let us know how the carbon footprint mechanism works for you!
@assadab this is great. Let's make the world carbon free! Congrats on the launch!
This feels like a useful tool to help climate charities get recurring donations, which I love. That being said, I think individual changes are mostly irrelevant — I'd love to be proven wrong. I have an innate skepticism whenever we try to shift responsibility onto individuals, rather than focusing on holding industries and governments accountable. Do you have any wise words for someone like me who already has a recurring donation to the NRDC (https://www.nrdc.org/)?
@product_at_producthunt Thanks for sharing. At Jules, we believe that there are two ways of enacting change:
1. You vote your values in the ballot box. We believe that organizing and advocacy are pivotal in enacting change but can be at times painfully slow.
2. Spend your values. You can spend money to punish companies that don't align with your values, support the development of new climate solutions, and buy and retire carbon permits from highly regulated carbon markets, forcing heavy industry polluters to change their practices.
We have decided to focus on the second way. How?
1. Now users can develop a sense of how their consumption habits have an impact. Eventually, we want to be able to tell them what brands and stores where they spend their money align with their values.
2. One of our verticals is called Reduce Emissions. This one enables you to donate to the Carbon Lighthouse Association which in return uses your money to purchase and retire carbon permits in RGGI(a cap and invest carbon market in a number of Northeastern states). This forces heavy industry polluters to reduce emissions while the money you spent on the permit is used for state green initiatives. There's also regulated carbon markets like this in California, the EU, and China.
3. We believe that carbon offsets such as carbon capture and reforestation need to be part of the plan to hold temperature increases below 1.5 Celcius. As more money goes into these solutions, we believe that the cost will go down, hence, allowing more consumers to engage in the market.
The goal of Jules is to make consumers realize the power of positive collective action. We can change the incentive structure of how companies and polluters operate.
Feel free to reach out directly to me at assad@meetjules.com if you would like to have a chat!
A few weeks back, I reviewed a similar launch for SaaS businesses. I was saying that would be good to be able to plug into your personal accounts and calculate your footprint, not just company expenses. And there comes Jules! Awesome work crew
Amazing product! Makes it super easy to automatically start tracking your CO2 and having a positive climate impact! 🙌
Glad to be partnered with you!
@nicolas_carmont Thank you and the Connect Earth team for the support along the way!
@stivenmart Muchas gracias! Comparte cualquier retroalimentación o comentario que tengas!
@jamesskon Hi James! The app is only in English and it's built on React Native which allows us to have it both in the App Store and Google Play Store.
@karimsaif Thanks Karim! Let us know if you have any feedback about the app!
Hey! Could you elaborate how you differ from Wren? https://www.wren.co
For me the lack of transparency of team/founders on the site makes it a bit less trustworthy.
@eric_de_zeeuw That's a great question. We have two main differences:
1. Most carbon offset apps are based on a carbon questionnaire you have to manually fill out while we pull your purchase history via Plaid to continuously tell you your actual carbon footprint.
2. Everyone focuses uniquely on carbon offsets. Which offset emissions AFTER they have happened. We do offer these types of offsets while also offering another option that will allow you to donate to purchase pollution permits away from polluters in highly regulated carbon markets like RGGI: https://www.rggi.org/. This is done via the Carbon Lighthouse Association.
If you want to learn more about me and Jeffrey, here are our LinkedIn profiles:
1. Jeffrey Nolte: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff...
2. Assad Aboultaif: https://www.linkedin.com/in/assa...
Feel free to reach out to me if you have any additional feedback or questions :)
@alex_lempka Thanks Alex! You and Connect Earth have been instrumental along the way!
Looks awesome! Great use of the Connect Earth API as well! Congrats on the launch!!
@lenny_leemann Thanks Lenny! @alexander_lempka and @nicolas_carmont have been very supportive while integrating the Connect Earth API. I would totally recommend it to anyone in the climate tech space.
@alexander_lempka @nicolas_carmont @assadab Definitely a great product and team, we are about to start integrating ourselves :)
@assadab @lenny_leemann We are super excited about the use-cases you have and the positive climate impact you create! A pleasure to be partnered with you to create a greener future! 🌍🚀
Great product. Rather must have given the rapid technology advancements. Congratulations on the launch!!
@mjain_mayank Thanks! Take a look around Jules and let us know what you think!
@michael_saloio Thank you! Let us know if you have any thoughts about the app.
Should we just put all our collective effort into a carbon tax? Relying on altruistic consumer behavior is not scalable.
@mikestaub Thanks for the comment! Our Reduce Emissions vertical does something similar to that. You can donate to the Carbon Lighthouse Association which in return uses your money to purchase and retire carbon permits in RGGI(a cap and invest carbon market in a number of Northeastern states). This forces heavy industry polluters to reduce emissions while the money you spent on the permit is used for state green initiatives. Also, this will drive up the cost of carbon permits for polluters which will eventually force them to change. There's also regulated carbon markets like this in California, the EU, and China.
@assadab I just worry that products like this distract from larger political efforts by shifting the blame to consumers. Why not use this money to lobby the federal government to create a carbon market like California's for all states?