Carbon is the essential material and building block for everything that lives. Waging a war on carbon is the wrong narrative, we just need to live such that we are in balance with nature and have enough nature to absorb what we create.

We need to wage the war on the large corporations that have destructive practices, and create an environment that is completely out of balance.

We commit as a company to be a restorative species, not take more than we need, always explore ways to improve our practices to have less detrimental impact on the planet, and at least balance out the by-products of producing Alinkers, by planting more and more trees.

The Alinker Inventions Ltd. is a certified B Corporation. We measure in social and environmental impact before money. Money / currency are the nutrients that need to flow to where they support life. Find all our links here: https://linktr.ee/theAlinker

We have been a Treesister for a couple of years now and already funded some 80.121 trees* (April 2022). Each month we plant some 1500 trees more. With this fundraiser we are growing the Alinker Forest bigger and bigger. Thank you for all generous contributions to date!

EXCEEDING CARBON NEUTRALITY

We are already more than carbon neutral. Our complete calculation is below in the text, and in short, this is what we do already: Our goal is to plant 15 trees per Alinker produced, enough to absorb 14 times the amount of carbon over the lifecycle of an Alinker (theoretically and for this purpose only set at 7 years).

By planting 1 tree per Alinker per year of its life cycle, we reach carbon neutrality over the 7 years life span of an Alinker (again, just for this purpose set at 7 years)

As of 17APR2023 -  Jan-April we planted 6000 trees (Apr 2023)

Here are the numbers and how we exceed carbon neutrality.

80,121* trees planted and 6245 Alinkers produced

=

12.8 trees per Alinker EVER produced

ALINKER MISSION

Our mission is to create revolutionary ways for people who want to live an active and engaged life, despite existing or developing mobility challenges. Our goal is to make it as easy and fun as possible for people to stay physically active, socially connected, and emotionally engaged in the community.

Health is more than being able to move and to be engaged. Health is about the food we eat, the air we breath, the care and connection we have for and with our planet, the spiritual awareness we have about our lives connected to the existence of forests as the lungs of our very existence.

As we are building this growing movement, we engage with people and hear what they share. With each story we understand deeper how our sickcare system drives people into poverty. A summary of the devastating effects of a food industry that makes people sick, which feeds into a pharma industry which makes money over sick people, topped with a society that dismisses and discards people. We come to understand deeper and deeper that isolation is a bigger disease than just the physical stuff people are dealing with.

We need to build a new world and through our crowdfunding campaigns we learned how attractive it is when people have a positive goal together and can show up for each other. The #Alinkerfamily is a term that came from the people who had done a successful campaign and found a life changing event in strangers showing up for them. After the campaign, and getting their Alinker creating life-altering experiences, people got more and more engaged with each other. A true movement is growing.

When we have the basics in place and feel human again, we can think and feel into the larger world, the forests to sustain us, but we need to be mindful, be connected and be willing to grow something extraordinary together.

CALCULATION FOR CARBON FOOTPRINT OF THE ALINKER

Thanks to the Brompton company who went through the process of calculating the amount of carbon produced for manufacturing one Brompton folding bike, we now know from their website that - "Manufacturing a Brompton bicycle creates 113kg of carbon", which is roughly 10 times it's weight. Translating that to the Alinker generously (at around 12-13 Kg), we can safely say that the Alinker manufacturing produces around 150kg of carbon per unit, which is equivalent to 330Lbs

A single tree absorbs about 48 pounds of carbon in a year, so

we would need to plant 6.8 tree per Alinker to absorb the produced carbon in

one year.... 7 trees absorb in 1 year the carbon the manufacturing produced. So

each Alinker is carbon neutralized over one year.

As a company with a few people on staff, we produce CO2 because we ship, travel, package (already 98% plastic free), eat, breath, and all other life activities we do that produces carbon....

Instead of calculating each and every detail, we have simply doubled the amount of trees we plant per Alinker....

So, we plant 15 trees per Alinker, so for each Alinker out there, we plant enough trees to absorb 660Lbs carbon each year. (twice as much and only over one year)

In the life cycle of an Alinker, say 7 years, it produced 330Lbs, and the trees planted for this one Alinker, absorbed 7 x 660Lbs = 4620Lbs

So in short, for each Alinker produced we plant enough trees to absorb 14 times the amount of carbon over the lifecycle of an Alinker of 7 years

Donate here and grow the Alinker forest with us together

with love

Alinker Family

The Alinker - April 17 2023 - More trees for more Alinkers $1000

The Alinker - March 24 2023 - More trees for more Alinkers $3000

The Alinker - Dec 20, 2022 -  More trees for More Alinkers - $1000

The Alinker - Nov 12, 2022 - $1000 - More trees for More Alinkers - and to do something green and good on Black Friday instead of contributing to a wasteful consumption discount frenzy.