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Jules — Offset your carbon footprint entirely
Calculate your carbon footprint based on your purchase history and understand where you stand. Choose a project or technology you believe in. See your money become part of the solution with a monthly offset to eliminate your calculated carbon footprint.
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@product_at_producthunt Thanks for sharing. At Jules, we believe that there are two ways of enacting change:
1. You vote your values in the ballot box. We believe that organizing and advocacy are pivotal in enacting change but can be at times painfully slow.
2. Spend your values. You can spend money to punish companies that don't align with your values, support the development of new climate solutions, and buy and retire carbon permits from highly regulated carbon markets, forcing heavy industry polluters to change their practices.
We have decided to focus on the second way. How?
1. Now users can develop a sense of how their consumption habits have an impact. Eventually, we want to be able to tell them what brands and stores where they spend their money align with their values.
2. One of our verticals is called Reduce Emissions. This one enables you to donate to the Carbon Lighthouse Association which in return uses your money to purchase and retire carbon permits in RGGI(a cap and invest carbon market in a number of Northeastern states). This forces heavy industry polluters to reduce emissions while the money you spent on the permit is used for state green initiatives. There's also regulated carbon markets like this in California, the EU, and China.
3. We believe that carbon offsets such as carbon capture and reforestation need to be part of the plan to hold temperature increases below 1.5 Celcius. As more money goes into these solutions, we believe that the cost will go down, hence, allowing more consumers to engage in the market.
The goal of Jules is to make consumers realize the power of positive collective action. We can change the incentive structure of how companies and polluters operate.
Feel free to reach out directly to me at assad@meetjules.com if you would like to have a chat!
Should we just put all our collective effort into a carbon tax? Relying on altruistic consumer behavior is not scalable.
@mikestaub Thanks for the comment! Our Reduce Emissions vertical does something similar to that. You can donate to the Carbon Lighthouse Association which in return uses your money to purchase and retire carbon permits in RGGI(a cap and invest carbon market in a number of Northeastern states). This forces heavy industry polluters to reduce emissions while the money you spent on the permit is used for state green initiatives. Also, this will drive up the cost of carbon permits for polluters which will eventually force them to change. There's also regulated carbon markets like this in California, the EU, and China.
@assadab I just worry that products like this distract from larger political efforts by shifting the blame to consumers. Why not use this money to lobby the federal government to create a carbon market like California's for all states?
@ahmedsaleh Thank you! Let us know how the carbon footprint mechanism works for you!
Great product. Rather must have given the rapid technology advancements. Congratulations on the launch!!
@mjain_mayank Thanks! Take a look around Jules and let us know what you think!
A few weeks back, I reviewed a similar launch for SaaS businesses. I was saying that would be good to be able to plug into your personal accounts and calculate your footprint, not just company expenses. And there comes Jules! Awesome work crew
Making ofsetting of person's carbon footprint so easy and transparent is a really good mission. Good luck, guys!
Hi Hunters! Thanks @kevin for hunting us.
We are Assad and Jeffrey, founders of Jules, and we are excited to share Jules with you today.
The Problem
People care about climate change, they are willing to spend money to combat it but they don’t do anything about it because it’s too inconvenient. They are left with one of two choices: large drastic lifestyle changes or small, non-impactful actions.
The Solution
Meet Jules, the app that allows you to offset your carbon footprint entirely and effortlessly with an easy-to-manage monthly subscription.
How Does It Work
1. Understand your impact: Before you can do something about your impact, it’s best to truly understand it. Jules can help by calculating your carbon footprint based on your actual consumption. We look at your purchases using your bank account and credit cards. That way, you have an accurate snapshot of your impact.
2. Discover new solutions: Once you know your carbon impact, you can navigate Jules’ options to neutralize it. By browsing our partners, you can select one that best fits your lifestyle. When you choose a project or technology that you believe in, it makes reducing your carbon footprint that much easier! We have worked with www.patch.io on aggregating most of these projects.
3. Become carbon neutral: See your money become part of the solution with a monthly offset to eliminate your calculated carbon footprint. Your Jules subscription varies based on consumption and the project you support. The cost can be as little as $7 a month – less than a streaming service! It’s climate action on autopilot.
Projects We Support
1. Reduce Emissions: We’ve partnered with the Carbon Lighthouse Association to allow you to donate so they can purchase pollution permits away from polluters and avoid emissions from happening in the first place.
2. Restore Forests: We are working with TIST via our partner Patch to plant millions of trees while generating long-term carbon-credit income for smallholder Kenyan farmers.
3. Support Renewables: We are working with Bluesource via our partner Patch to support the India Gujarat State Wind Farm project aims to help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by using renewable wind energy.
4. Remove Carbon: We are working with Charm Industrial via our partner Patch to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere, convert biomass into a stable, carbon-rich liquid and then pump it deep underground.
Our mission is to enable climate action for everyone. We believe channeling collective consumer power can spark meaningful progress in the fight against climate change.
Please have a look around, and let us show you our vision of how to bring people together to benefit each other and the world.
Thanks everyone! At Jules, we are committed to make climate action easier for everyone. Please, let us know if you have any feedback or comment about the app. Feel free to email me at assad@meetjules.com
Amazing product! Makes it super easy to automatically start tracking your CO2 and having a positive climate impact! 🙌
Glad to be partnered with you!
@nicolas_carmont Thank you and the Connect Earth team for the support along the way!
Hi guys! Laurence here, maker of Cilo which also launched today! https://www.producthunt.com/post.... It's a shame that we have to be in competition as we need all the climate solutions we can get! Keep up the good work though and would be delighted to connect if you want to chat.
@lcolli71 Thanks and congrats on the launch. We see plenty of opportunities and would love to collaborate with other founders. Congrats on your launch as well!
@lcolli71 Congrats on the launch! It's great to see that there are new climate solutions popping up all the time. Feel free to add me in LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/assa... so we can connect and chat.
Nice! Sure there is a lot of competition in the carbon offset purchase space, but the more the merrier! Any plans on introducing a web app?
@vishalrk1999 Thanks! We are currently not considering a web app for now. Feel free to download the app and share with us what you think!
Hey! Could you elaborate how you differ from Wren? https://www.wren.co
For me the lack of transparency of team/founders on the site makes it a bit less trustworthy.
@eric_de_zeeuw That's a great question. We have two main differences:
1. Most carbon offset apps are based on a carbon questionnaire you have to manually fill out while we pull your purchase history via Plaid to continuously tell you your actual carbon footprint.
2. Everyone focuses uniquely on carbon offsets. Which offset emissions AFTER they have happened. We do offer these types of offsets while also offering another option that will allow you to donate to purchase pollution permits away from polluters in highly regulated carbon markets like RGGI: https://www.rggi.org/. This is done via the Carbon Lighthouse Association.
If you want to learn more about me and Jeffrey, here are our LinkedIn profiles:
1. Jeffrey Nolte: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff...
2. Assad Aboultaif: https://www.linkedin.com/in/assa...
Feel free to reach out to me if you have any additional feedback or questions :)
Congrats on the launch! This looks awesome. Love that I can calculate my carbon footprint and do something about it in the same app. Kudos!
@assadab @jeffrey_nolte So excited you are bringing this tool to the world! Great concept, and super easy to use to drive big environmental impact!
@jeffrey_nolte @boiseofreason Thank you! Let us know if you have any feedback or comments!
Looks awesome! Great use of the Connect Earth API as well! Congrats on the launch!!
@lenny_leemann Thanks Lenny! @alexander_lempka and @nicolas_carmont have been very supportive while integrating the Connect Earth API. I would totally recommend it to anyone in the climate tech space.
@alexander_lempka @nicolas_carmont @assadab Definitely a great product and team, we are about to start integrating ourselves :)
@assadab @lenny_leemann We are super excited about the use-cases you have and the positive climate impact you create! A pleasure to be partnered with you to create a greener future! 🌍🚀
@jamesskon Hi James! The app is only in English and it's built on React Native which allows us to have it both in the App Store and Google Play Store.
Amazing product and congrats for the launch! Super nice and clean product demo ✨✨✨
@andrejgotova Thank you! Let us know if you have any feedback or comments about the app!
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