Hi all, Joined like many of you as keen to help grow and work though the issues that will arise with the token system to ensure it can fit into the economic environment so it will succeed as it should. One issue I see is insurance, a necessary evil now in a commercial transaction/asset..if worked right it can help the industry eg insurance companies require an annual tree inspection/ and or work completed only by suitably qualified arborists, able to provide affordable and appropriate damage/loss cover using a industry led matrix. A good collaboration with insurance could benefit Arboricultural standards and help the industry set the standard instead of Councils for example. However there needs to be an affordable levy matrix otherwise it will be too expensive for owner and or user to to ensure its economically profitable to buy into the token system. Something to work through and would be good to hear other people's perspectives . I feel that NZ arboriculture is still struggling to develop a professional identity in NZ which is important regardless but important going forward with this Will talk about that another time.

You’re gonna hear me talk a lot about how the industry mainly sells removal. I want to make a point clear - pruning for reasons other than tree health (a rare case) is still removal. You’re just removing less of the tree. There are a lot of justifications for pruning, and I certainly won’t say all pruning is bad, but we have come to believe it’s good because we’re saving a tree from removal a lot of times. We can do better than damaging trees to save total removal if we build a new industry structure.

Hey all, We're gonna kick this thing into life. I'm holding a webinar at 5pm Friday 21st NZT (10pm Thursday 20 pacific) to gather the industry together and present a solution for canopy loss. Please go forward and spread the word, if you'd like to opt in to communications, send me your email address and I'll put you on the list. I'm going to use the webinar to drive traffic to this community, Apex Arborum will be the hub of an industry movement towards the tree presence model and will be a place of development and discussion of the Evergreen Token (Sempervirens). Please spread the word to everyone you know. Webinar link to follow. It is time to change, we simply cannot continue on this current course.

Hi, I run a smallish Tree service business called Gervis Tree Services in Victoria Australia. I’ve been in the industry about 16 years now. I’m a climber but I’ve been doing less on the tools work and more Tree reports. I’m heavily interested in food forestry and syntropic Agroforestry and I’m moving more into designing implementing and managing food forest systems. I originally started my business as a way of saying no to doing Tree work that I didn’t think was necessary.

I believe the problem that we face is financial, and so the solution is to add trees to our capitalist system - to recognise their value by selling their services