All For Climate is the Fiscal Host for RESQ-DAO

We're proud to announce All For Climate has agreed to be the Fiscal Host for RESQ-DAO. This partnership for climate action is a very exciting upgrade for RESQ that we anticipate will greatly ease the accounting burdens while assisting us in sharing the methods we've developed for redistributing food, plastic, and wood wastes found at local markets. Last year we ran a fundraiser through Facebook and were forced to hop through numerous banking hoops to receive the funds. The RESQ Founders are US citizens AND digital nomads. If we have to create a bank account in every country we travel through, we'd spend more time and resources on banking then on actively solving the pollution problem. That's a waste of resources. We believe that wasting resources is a significant part of the climate crisis that can be directly dealt with via application of more efficient processes. Our technologies were created to improve life for humanity. Through these technologies we can clean up this mess. Open source technology and fiscal transparency are precisely why we're stoked to join forces with All For Climate on OpenCollective. RESQing the planet takes a lot of work, we don't have time to mess around.

Thank you, All For Climate!

RESQ is dedicated to finding unique local solutions that can be applied to global problems.

RESQ's first action is a food redistribution program that prevents tons of perfectly good food, plastic, and wood crates from going to the dump. When we send items to the landfill, we prefer them to have "no life left." We'd love for our trash to go to landfills that participate in methane capture for electricity or renewable gas. But, we can't even guarantee that our trash is going to an actual landfill and not just a field somewhere. As a result, we've chosen to send as little trash as possible to the landfills. For full details on the food program go to the RESQ website.

We're working out the kinks in our second action, a carbon offset program to reduce local tree farm emissions by half. In this program, we'll take the yearly pruning piles that farmers normally burn and redistribute them to low income families that must burn wood for heating. In this program, a person purchasing the carbon offset pays for the fuel necessary to pickup and redistribute the wood. The farmer does not pay for gas or burning licenses. The impoverished do not pay for heat. The farmers are given the option to donate their wood or to receive seedlings in exchange. The carbon offset is handled transparently and one half of the local fires are redistributed to controlled burns designed to warm homes. Even the ash can be returned to the farmer for mixing into the fields if the nutrients are needed. The ash has other possible uses in concretes, lyes, and soaps. This budding program doesn't seek to address the need to switch heating systems to renewables, though we recognize this as the ultimate goal.

RESQ's has recently begun research on a third action, a methane offset program to reduce local pig farm emissions. Details of this program are TBD while we work with local pig farmers to determine options.

It'll take a lot of small actions to get us out of this quagmire.

In 2016, we started with one family going to market every Friday and asking the vendors if they had trash we could feed to the dogs in the country. Turns out, most of the vendors have dogs and hate throwing food into the trash. They were more than happy to help. Our first action has redistributed approximately 1.7 tons of food, helped over 30 undernourished local dogs, and recycled about 2 tons of plastics. This is where we started and we're not done yet!