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Organizations designed to help solve an issue or improve something have been around forever. If there is some kind of injustice, or something bad is happening, then enough people will usually notice and form an organization to counter it. There are examples of this all over the world. Take Greenpeace, for example, or Silva Tree. Silva Tree is a great company I have recently come into contact with that offer environmental related investments. Their investments are fantastic for people that have an environmental conscience, and are thinking about investments that offer steady annual returns.

Of all Silva Tree’s investments, the one that has really taken off is their Princess Project. The Princess Project (open since 2009) offers a fantastic RIO of 15% per annum, and is basically a timber plantation. A return like that is very compelling especially when you know you’ll be helping the environment at the same time. The Princess Project has a very good ROI, of course, but apart from helping you it will also benefit many others, such as local communities. One other advantage of the Princess Project is that they pay returns every five years (many other investments do are not this frequent).

If you are interested in Silva Tree’s Princess Project (and you probably should be), there are application forms on their website. Silva Tree helps out all kinds of people, and there are many causes they are dedicated to; and when you invest with them you will be doing a lot of good not just for yourself. An example of Silva Tree helping out local communities would be their efforts to repair the Escuela Cano Zapota. They also work with local governments in all of their projects.

Another really good investment offered by Silva Tree was the Carbon Offset Forestry Project. The Carbon Offset Forestry Project sold out in mid 2009, which isn’t surprising; it did very well while it was offered but as it is sold out you won’t be able to take part in it anymore. This investment basically worked by buying large areas of rainforest from private sellers, in order to conserve and protect it. This sort of reminded me of when I booked a Qantas flight a while ago, and you could pay a tiny bit extra for them to plant a tree that would absorb some of the flight emissions. Remember that rainforests absorb CO2 and they also provide habitat – so they need to be preserved at all costs.

On top of their Princess and Carbon Offset Forestry Projects, there are a number of other worthwhile and upcoming investments that Silva Tree offers. An investment of Silva Tree’s that really got me interested was their Bio-Fuel project. It is anticipated that bio-fuel will be useful for all kinds of things, and research is being conducting on it all the time. It has been proven already that bio-fuel has the ability to do things like create electricity.

Silva Tree has been able to become a success mainly because they have some very good directors on board. These include Maurice Sjerps (project management), Patrick Visser (Business development) and Keren Katz (project design & development). The most important thing in an organization dedicated to some kind of worthy cause is that everyone there believes in what they are doing.

Filed under: Fun Stuff on June 11th, 2010