One forest,
grown from
many places.
Oasis is a virtual community where independent and aspiring conservationists plant and care for real trees wherever they live, and grow them together into one decentralized forest.
Decentralized forest: to become a forest from urban and separated landscapes as a part of a virtual community.
Coined for Oasis by Organic
Who it's for
Conservationists, and people who want to become one, who are working on their own. People with a backyard, a balcony or a corner of a schoolyard, but no institution, no lab and no crew.
Oasis gives them three things that are hard to find alone: other people, tools like Atlas, and a way for their work to count, with credit for every tree they keep alive.
Plant where you are.
Grow it together.
Plant a native tree
On your own land, or with permission from the landowner or city. No yard yet? Start with a seed, houseplant or mushroom kit as a seedling in the forest.
Join it to a forest
Add a photo, the date and a rough coordinate zone. Pick the forest room it belongs to, like a wetland edge, a food forest or a street canopy.
Check in over time
Post check-ins and mark how it's doing. A tree counts once it's still alive after a year, because keeping life alive is the point.
Rooms to visit
Oasis starts online, so anyone can join from anywhere. Each room has a job.
Forest rooms
Each room is one forest, built by a small group of 10 to 30 people, with smaller chats by location for local know-how.
GROW TOGETHERTree catalog
Every tree in the forest: its name, species, caretaker, coordinate zone and living status. Kept light enough for slow phones.
EVERY TREE, EVERYWHEREForest globe
The whole forest on one globe, with color-coded community sections, trees and forest lots.
SEE IT WHOLEHabitat cams
Live cameras and sensors on real habitats, like a pond or fungi bed, so members can watch and log how they're doing.
WATCH LIVEStudy Commons
Drop-in focus rooms with a shared timer, for writing up field notes, grants and research next to others.
NOT ALONENetherlands Café
The hangout: chat tables, lo-fi music and weekly events like Koffie & Kletsen and a stroopwafel bake-along.
PULL UP A CHAIRResearch and lab work connect to Atlas, Organic's research database.
Every tree, everywhere
A sample of what the catalog could hold. These trees and names are examples, not real members yet.
See the whole forest
Each colored section is a community. Dots are trees, squares are forest lots. Drag the globe, or pick a community to fly there.
Communities
Key
Land that stays forest
Over time, the community can buy small pieces of land, like an empty lot or a stream bank, so the trees planted there are protected for good. Land trusts and conservation easements are common ways to make that last.
Stream Bank Lot
EXAMPLE · PURCHASED- ZONE
- 42.4°N, 72.5°W
- SIZE
- 0.5 acres
- FOREST
- Willow & Wetland
- TREES PLANNED
- 40
Corner Orchard
EXAMPLE · FUNDRAISING- ZONE
- 33.7°N, 84.4°W
- SIZE
- 0.25 acres
- FOREST
- Food Forest
- TREES PLANNED
- 18
A conservation center you can walk into
- 1A living willow arch at the entry, grown rather than built
- 2A Study Commons under a living roof
- 3Labs for mycology, living collections, and data and AI
- 4The Netherlands Café, opening onto the pond
- 5A ring of habitats, including Palm Huts woven from living trees
- 6A solar canopy that powers the labs
Start small. Keep it alive. Grow.
Virtual Oasis
Forest rooms, the tree catalog and the globe go online. The first trees and habitat cams join.
First forest lots
The community buys its first small lots and protects them, with meetups and pop-ups in a library or campus.
The physical Oasis
A real center with study space, labs, habitats and the Netherlands Café.
Above and beyond
A Google Earth-style globe from planet to single tree, Organic's own satellite, and maybe the first café on Mars.
What we're working on next
Oasis is early. These are the ideas being shaped now.
- ArtworkIllustrations of each forest and tree, and drawings of how trees connect.
- WildlifeRecording the birds, insects and animals each forest supports.
- Naming forestsA naming ritual for each new forest as its initiation into Oasis, inspired by naming traditions and developed with care.
- Admin dashboardA simple way to review check-ins and update each tree's status.