Who are we
Many of us work in the wind turbine industry, or have links to the renewable energy sector. What we have in common is that we think the efforts to stop global warming are moving too slowly.
We are united in a strong desire to act and help buy mankind more time to make the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
We started in Central Jutland because most of us live here. Here, the founder of Hedeselskabet, Enrico Dalgas, also had his work 150 years ago. Under his leadership, Hedeselskabet was responsible for plantning many forests after 1864 – forests, which we now enjoy.
Board Members

Henrik Stiesdal
Chairman
For decades Henrik Stiesdal has been one of the key influencers in both the Danish and global wind turbine industry. He is an internationally awarded and universally respected innovator in the renewable energy domain. He blogs (in Danish) here and you can read more about Grow For It’s chairman on Wikipedia.

Jens Schiersing Thomsen
Vice chair and in charge of operations

Nathalie Risvig Hansen
Daily Manager, executive committee member

Jan Thisted
Executive committee member

Kristian Strøbech
Executive committee member

Peter J.H. Esmann
Executive committee member
Active members

Luisa dos Santos Bay Nielsen
Support group member
Luisa is chairperson of Klimabevægelsen and a PhD student at the GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen where she studies the effect of micro organisms on mammal behaviour. She has a cand.scient. degree in Biology and has previously worked on research projects related to the environment, climate, animals and nature. Luisa is highly motivated to combat both climate change and the bio diversity crisis. Luisa manages Grow For It’s social media profiles and contributes to marketing efforts.

Anne Wolsing
Support group member

Nina Pedersen
Support group member
Nina traditionally provides the food for Grow For It’s annual general meeting.

Lars Hedemann
Deputy executive committee member

Anja Norn
Support group member
Our purpose
Grow For It is a non-profit association offering individuals the opportunity to balance their personal CO₂ emission through planting of trees.
Afforestation is a solution that buys mankind more time to make the necessary transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Afforestation works for the climate by capturing and binding CO₂ from Earth’s atmosphere in growing trees.
The main goal of Grow For It is to reduce carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere through afforestation. All donations toward afforestation goes directly into tree planting.
Grow For It is independent of politics, and our activities are based on voluntary work. We are a civil society volunteer based group, independent of any financial interests. Being non-bureaucratic is important to us. We focus on transparency and credibility in all we do.
We are happy to enter into cooperation with other organisations in afforestation nationally and globally, provided these organisations meet our requirements for transparency and credibility.
Our aim is to plant trees – a lot of trees. It is not so important who takes care of the actual planting as long as we end up capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
We are a volunteer project. We believe we can make something real and tangible happen by simply taking action as citizens. As an example: If a family of two plant 2 hectares of forest (2 pieces of land of 100*100 m each) the family will have balanced it’s emissions for the next 70 to 100 years, once and for all!
Our partners
Danish Forestry Extension
Danish Forestry Extension is the international department of forestry. The forest growers unite more than 5,000 private forest owners, for more than 100 years.
Danish Forestry Extension focuses on international development activities related to forest management and strengthening of local forest associations. Today, their expertise and international commitment are spread throughout the world, spanning more than 25 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia.
TroFaCo
The organiazation TroFaCo was established in 2014. The founders, Steffen Johnsen and Thomas O’Brian Kirk, have both been working with international development projects for many years, Thomas in Africa, Steffen mostly in Asia.
TroFaCo cooperate with several Danish associations, among those Dan Church Aid. TroFaCo’s partners in charge of the practicalities are CAFACA in Cambodia, ActionAid in Vietnam (Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke is the Danish member of ActionAid), and in Uganda it is CIDI along with other partners cooperating with Caritas Danmark and Danida.
Eden Reforestation Projects
Grow For It is a “Sapling Partner” with the American organization Eden Reforestation Projects. Eden has plantet and re-established forests in many countries since 2004 and operates with a high degree of transparency and accountability. We have chosen to work with Eden on their sites in Madagascar, where mangrove is being re-established on a large scale.
Mangrove is particularly of interest to Grow For It, since mangrove has a carbon capture and storage capacity near double that of other trees. This means a very attractive planting opportunity for Grow For It’s donors.