This is a really simple calculator to show you how many trees you save from having to be planted each week, month, and year by switching to an ebike.
The tricky thing to get your head around is that this calculator shows you not how many trees you “save” in terms of avoiding having them cut down, but how many trees you actually prevent from needing to be planted each year in order to offset your carbon emissions.
In a lot of ways it is simply better to use an ebike to reduce your emissions instead of planting trees to sequester the emissions from fuel consumption that you would otherwise produce. When you plant a tree, this sequesters the carbon over time, and eventually the tree has to be cut down, which usually re-releases the carbon that has been stored in the tree back into the atmosphere. It essentially functions as a long term loan, allowing us to “borrow” a credit against the carbon sequestered, which eventually needs to be “repaid” when the tree gets cut down.
It’s a lot to go into, and I’ll probably cover the difference in a later blog. But nonetheless I think that this calculator is still a useful tool to help you visualise the impact that using an ebike can have on our national project of reducing emissions.
