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At Race to a Million we try to be environmentally conscious, from the coffee we drink to the t-shirts we give away for this contest. During the Christmas season many people forget to follow some basic conscientious principles regarding the environment. In fact Christmas can sometimes promote a lot of unnecessary consumption including the tree’s we put up in our houses. We cut down tree after tree after tree and Steve Rollheiser has an environmentally conscious solution for that!! Thanks for your submission Steve your t-shirt has been sent!! Good luck on winning that $10,000!!!!!!
Idea Title:
Christmas Tree Hugger
From:
Steven Rollheiser in Kamloops BC
Idea Summary:
“rent out” live evergreens in pots for Christmas trees, give partial credit for return of healthy trees, store them until spring then resells them for planting.
Idea Description:
The group contracts bulk purchase of 4-5′ evergreens in pots for 20-25$ each, partners with school groups, parent advisory groups, non-profits etc to presell trees for say $60 for Christmas trees, then delivers them, and if purchaser wants, picks them up early in New Year- stores them until springtime in semi-sheltered area to protect the now non-dormant trees from freezing, then resells the returned trees to City of Kamloops (or whatever) for their treeplanting program. The original tree purchasers can keep the tree, or return for partial credit if tree is alive and well.
Essential partnerships: tree farm
Schools, Parent advisory groups, City of Kamloops (as end-purchasers at original bulk-buy price) non-profit groups to front money, deliver, pick up and store trees, some corporation or organization with space to store live trees (under shelter, not necessarily heated, no fire risk)
If this sold 5,000 trees and realized a $20 profit each, that’s $100,000. Lots of kids in town to promote to parents, serves the environment, shared profits with schools, Parent Advisory Groups serves educational support needs, mutually beneficial partnership with municipality is a win-win. Corporation could get a tax write off for donating storage space. Tree farm sells lots of live trees. Good likelihood for repeat annual business- last time I checked, Xmas comes every year. As long as costs reasonably competitive with your regular ‘throw-away’ tree, easy to promote as a green alternative. Offer discounts for repeat/early purchasers. Solicit Municipal support for sales, local media, try to get the whole community behind the idea, could have significant growth potential. Volunteers needed to deliver/collect trees, maybe check them re ?watering during storage etc, altho if they could be made to go dormant again after being inside for the 10-14 days of the Christmas season, might not need much upkeep until planting time.
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