Ex-Nasa Engineer to Plant One Billion Trees a Year Using Drones

By Published on April 26, 2015

A start-up plans to help solve the world’s climate problems by using drones to plant forests of seedlings.

“We are going to counter industrial scale deforestation using industrial scale reforestation,” says Lauren Fletcher, the founder of BioCarbon Engineering.

The environmental engineer who worked 20 years with NASA wants to use drone technology to plant up to one billion trees a year, without having to plant each one by hand.

Drones will fly two or three meters above the ground and fire out pods containing pre-germinated seeds that are covered in a nutritious hydrogel.

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