Bao Podcast

#19 Sarah Parent (Go Forest)

Episode Summary

Sarah is founder and CEO at Go Forest. Go Forest is a young company, established in 2020 that plants trees all over the world for companies and individuals who want to work towards a greener environment. Go Forest aims to restore nature by planting the right kind of trees in environments where they have positive effects on biodiversity, carbon storage, employment, livelihood, and local economy. With more than 200 companies having become clients in only 2 years time, they have had tremendously rapid growth. Therefore, I thought it would be nice to invite Sarah to discuss the past 2 years and also look ahead to the future together.

Episode Notes

Sarah is founder and CEO at Go Forest. Go Forest is a young company, established in 2020 that plants trees all over the world for companies and individuals who want to work towards a greener environment. Go Forest aims to restore nature by planting the right kind of trees in environments where they have positive effects on biodiversity, carbon storage, employment, livelihood, and local economy. 

With more than 200 companies having become clients in only 2 years time, they have had tremendously rapid growth. Therefore, I thought it would be nice to invite Sarah to discuss the past 2 years and also look ahead to the future together. 

 

Show notes: 

Go Forest 

CO2logic 

South Pole 

Wim Vermeulen books 

Peter Wohlleben – The Hidden Life of Trees 

Sarah’s LinkedIn 

 

Time stamps: 

0:00 Intro

1:45 Start of Go Forest

6:40 Personal motivation for planting trees 

8:15 The idea behind Go Forest

13:55 The tree planting process 

28:30 The Go Forest organization

31:25 Work-life balance

36:30 Future of Go Forest

39:55 Use of blockchain 

46:15 Final remarks on Go Forest

47:15 Outroc