• CLEANER AIR

    SOONER

    AT LOWER COST

    For three decades, Clean Air Action has successfully improved urban, regional and global air quality.

  • OUR FIRSTS

    Clean Air Action has been the leading catalyst for change in air emissions compliance, having been involved in or responsible for the following breakthroughs:

  • CAAC FIRSTS

     

    The First Ozone Alert Program
    Citizen Alert programs are now common throughout the world.

     

    The First Multi-Stakeholder Trading Initiative
    This program, called MERIT, for Maximizing Emission Reductions through Inter-source Trading, was the first multi-stakeholder trading initiative in the USA. Thanks to MERIT, the carbon markets can function today.

     


    The First USA Interstate + First International Emissions Reduction Transactions

    Both firsts which helped change the shape of emissions reduction policy in the USA.

     

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    Our Flagship

    TIST is an innovative time-tested forestation program led by the participants.

  • TIST: A BREAKTHROUGH PROGRAM

    TIST Farmers are successfully counteracting the devastating effects of deforestation, erosion, famine, droughts and floods through an innovative solution: planting millions of trees.

  • OVER 27 MILLION TREES

    ALIVE AND COUNTING

     

    Clean Air Action Corporation works with subsistence farmers in Africa and India on a tree planting model called the TIST Program.

     

    With TIST, subsistence farmers start to grow clean air and earn income while producing real local and global environmental benefits.

     

    The result is a revolutionary approach to effective global afforestation which allows for unprecedented accuracy and transparency.

  • REALTIME TREE DATA

  • Our breakthrough afforestation project is winning awards and topping carbon certification charts.

     

    It's called the TIST Program and right now over 250,637 subsistence farmers in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and India are taking care of their 26,910,419 + live trees and using the revenue to transform the lives of their communities.

     

    TIST Farmers are planting more trees every day. These groves are mapped, carefully quantified internally and verified by third parties to assure accuracy and transparency.

     

  • TIST BENEFITS

    Planting trees is only the beginning. The TIST Program goes beyond tangible environmental benefits to transform social landscapes as well.

  • Trees provide fruit, fodder, fuel, windbreaks, shade, and stabilize riverbanks.


    TIST Farmers - women, men and youth - receive leadership development as well as leadership opportunities.


    The benefits in addition to carbon income have been verified to exceed $8 per tree.


    TIST Farmers have access to HIV/AIDS and useful health information and safe cooking stoves.

  • SUBSISTENCE FARMERS CREATE A NEW AFFORESTATION MODEL

    In rural Africa and India, TIST Farmers are actively planting trees, restoring environments and growing new leaders.

     

    These Kenyan women were filmed by Ripple Effect Images to show the success they have achieved through the TIST Program to enrich their communities:

    Video by Michael Davie

    Still Photos by Lynn Johnson

    Produced by Ripple Effect Images

  • "A MEASURABLE EFFECT"

    26,910,419 + LIVING TREES SINCE 1999

    250,637 SUBSISTENCE FARMERS INVOLVED

    38,776 ACTIVE SMALL GROUPS PLANTING

    80,000+ WOMEN ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE PROGRAM

    SPANS 4 COUNTRIES: KENYA, UGANDA, TANZANIA & INDIA

    OVER 6,973,256 METRIC TONS OF CARBON SEQUESTERED

    HUNDREDS OF COMMUNITY LEADERS CREATED

  • CLEAN AIR ACTION + TIST AWARDS

    Clean Air Action and the TIST Program have won numerous awards over the years

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    TIST Co-Founders Ben & Vannesa Henneke received the William K. Reilly Award for Environmental Leadership in 2017

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    Clean Air Action Corporation won Environmental Finance's "Best Project Developer" in Forestry and Land Use in 2016

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    TIST won Environmental Finance's "Best Offsetting Project" in 2016

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    TIST won Environmental Finance's "Best Offsetting Project" in 2014

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    TIST received a Computerworld Honors Program 2007 Laureate for its monitoring system

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    TIST has 14 successful Validated and Verified Projects under the VCS and CCB Standards

  • 250,637 FARMERS

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    OVER 26,910,419 TREES

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    1 POWERFUL SOCIAL MOVEMENT!

     

    TIST trains and encourages Small Groups to develop and share "Best Practices". TIST introduces improved farming and land use techniques to isolated subsistence farmers who are now planting millions of new trees. Using a combination of Small Group development and training programs and providing small stipends to groups, TIST helps local farmers meet their economic needs, even during severe dry seasons.

     

    Small Groups agree to meet the program requirements and assure tree survival and use of improved, sustainable land use techniques for years to come. The improved farming practices and tree planting will boost local welfare by stabilizing the food supply and by providing families with additional income from TIST tree benefits and payments.

     

    TIST Small Groups are also educated about HIV/AIDS and create a response to this pandemic at the group and village level. Adopting conservation farming techniques increases food and decreases annual effort. Family members can continue to plant in these seedbeds year after year and have food.

  • LEADERSHIP TEAM

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    Tushabemukama Apollo

    Uganda

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    Pamela Beryige

    Uganda

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    Sikitu Frank

    Tanzania

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    Ben Henneke

    USA

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    Vannesa Henneke

    USA

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    Charles Ibeere

    Kenya

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    Jane Kanja

    Kenya

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    Jacki Prather

    USA

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    Gayo Mhila

    Tanzania

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    Martin Weru

    Kenya

  • TIST PROGRAM FIRSTS

     

    TIST was First in the World to be Dually Certified under Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standard (CCB)

    TIST was the first afforestation program in the world to achieve dual certification under both carbon industry standards.

     


    TIST was First in the World to be Certified Gold under Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standard (CCB) Version 2

    The TIST Program received Gold Certification under the CCB V2 carbon standard.

     

  • WE WORK TOGETHER

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    Clean Air Action Corporation

    Focused on action-based means of cleaning the air including the TIST Program, an unprecedented model for effective afforestation in developing world locations

    Clean Air Action Corporation (CAAC) is a lean corporate structure that cooperates with The Institute for Environmental Innovation (I4EI) to assist and enable the TIST Program to operate.

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    The International Small Group & Tree Planting Program (TIST)

    Award-winning, carbon chart topping afforestation model that empowers subsistence farmers in Africa and India to create a long term by planting trees

    TIST is a comprehensive sustainable development program for developing world locations. It is the result of teamwork between subsistence farmers in Africa + India and Clean Air Action Corporation. TIST is a breakthrough model for afforestation that provides participating members a way to create a long term and green source of income and help the planet by planting trees.

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    Institute for Environmental Innovation

    Small Groups take locally determined action on environmental renewal, community leadership, food security and improved health

    The Institute for Environmental Innovation (I4EI) works with Clean Air Action Corporation to ensure the viability of the TIST Program and the long term health of its members.

  • CONTACT

    We welcome and encourage you to reach out to us!

     

    We have no fancy offices, don't fly first class and own zero vehicles.

     

    This helps us save a lot of money and we put it all into the TIST Program.

     

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