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Welcome to the community
First things first: Go ahead and introduce yourself on the introductions part of the message boards, tell us where you're from and what part of the industry you're in. Our industry is on a path to self destruction. As long as we’re paid for the absence of trees instead of the presence of them, we’ll be trapped in a shrinking market, chasing short-term profit while killing the long-term future of our trade, and living environment. Apex Arborist exists to change that. This community is an incubator for a new way of thinking, one where arborists are builders of value, not just removers of risk and nuisance. We’re here to empower those growing businesses that expand canopy, grow influence, and reshape public perception. These are my ideas. They are not final, they’re just a foundation. Please contribute, push back, and improve them. Together, we can create an industry that actually deserves to exist. This is the first iteration of course content, so the subscription is launched at this discounted rate, as it gets built out and adds more value, it will go up in price. Bonus for you is you get to weigh in on what content needs to be made next. To keep the tree presence model content freely available, I will likely start a free community at the same time that this one goes behind a paywall. This is so Apex Arborist can become a paid space that adds value to people who want to push themselves, but the foundational ideas it is built on are freely available to all. A rising tide lifts all ships. Let us raise the tide before the ocean is gone. More trees, more arborist work to be done.
Welcome to the community
Food and fuel security
Hey so I figure most people in here are watching the global order decline. I think talking about food security is a good idea, El Niño is meant to cause all sorts of havoc on an already fragile system. I also think talking about the global fuel situation would be good too. Crude extraction looks okay but refining capacity is fuuuucked up and fuel reserves are nearly gone. What do yall see
Summon The Canopy
Please see the first draft of the full information pack that describes Sempervirens, a system to account for natural value in a capitalist world and beyond, and how we, the green industries, can build it. It is lengthy and technical, for anyone brave enough to tackle the whole thing I salute you, but also I encourage you to feed it into your AI and ask it questions so it's more manageable. All feedback is welcome, blunt and direct feedback is most useful.
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The economy is eating the planet
There are lots of suggestions about legal protection for trees being the way forward. My position is it’s part of the solution but cannot be relied upon. Our economy is a story of infinite growth and our planet is finite, so my position is that we will continue to lose trees to feed the economy until we account for the economic value of the natural world. This is happening in New Zealand, we removed general tree protection in 2012 and have lost massive amounts of canopy since then. Now, the government is doubling down and going after our most special protection - notable trees. To me, the problem is financial, interested to hear your thoughts.
The economy is eating the planet
Standby
Hey team, we’re getting ready for the next stage. I am putting together a bunch of information on how we can actually start building a parallel system based on rewarding tree presence. It’s taking a huge amount of my focus, and at the same time there are massive challenges in my company that we are facing together. It is my intention to use this document as a build blueprint so that we can build collaboratively. Stand by, and I hope that the chaos raging around the world isn’t hitting anyone too hard. 🫡
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