We believe governments are failing to act at the scale and speed this moment demands. We still need public institutions that protect people and nature. But waiting for them to get everything right is a choice we can no longer afford.
Companies decide where money flows, what gets made and which costs are pushed onto others. People shape those decisions as workers, founders, customers and citizens. We have power already. We should use it.
Build an economy that gives back.
For us, regenerative capitalism means using business to restore the conditions that make prosperity possible: healthy ecosystems, resilient communities and trust. That includes fair treatment of people, responsible use of resources and decisions that look beyond the next quarter.
Revenue keeps a service running. Profit gives a company choices. Those choices should help the living world recover and leave people better off. Responsibility belongs in the business model, in everyday decisions and in where the money goes.
Start with something people already do.
Ferndrop starts with file sharing. A useful service, free to use, funded by sponsors. Sponsor income covers running costs. Every euro of profit that remains goes to tree-planting organisations.
We want an ordinary digital service to help fund restoration through the way its profits are used. We hope more companies find ways to make giving back part of how they work.
Responsibility needs evidence.
Tree planting does not make digital infrastructure impact-free. Servers use energy. Ecosystems take time to recover. We won’t claim carbon neutrality or promise that one transfer plants one tree.
We commit to publishing costs, payments and receipts, and being honest about what has and has not happened. A promise becomes a contribution when the money moves. People should be able to question the evidence.
How we host Ferndrop.
Our environmental responsibility includes the infrastructure behind every transfer.
Green hosting, independently listed
The Green Web Foundation identifies ferndrop.com as green hosted by Cloudflare. Cloudflare matches its operational electricity use with renewable energy purchases. Its 2025 emissions inventory reports zero market-based Scope 2 emissions after renewable energy and offset purchases. That is an electricity-accounting result for our provider, not a zero-carbon claim for Ferndrop.
European file storage. A distributed network.
Our encrypted link-transfer files are stored in Cloudflare R2’s Western Europe region. Cloudflare Workers runs our site and transfer API; Durable Objects coordinate transfers. The wider service uses Cloudflare’s distributed network, so the storage region does not mean all processing stays in Europe.
Temporary by design
Link transfers last 48 hours by default and at most seven days. Expired links stop working, and a cleanup job runs every 15 minutes to remove stored files, retrying failed deletions. An eight-day storage lifecycle rule provides a deletion backstop. Direct transfers send file data between browsers without storing a copy on our servers.
Networks, devices and hardware still have a footprint. Tree-planting contributions fund restoration separately; they do not cancel those emissions. We do not advertise carbon-neutral transfers or a grams-per-transfer figure.
Hosting and storage configuration checked . Sources: Green Web Foundation, Cloudflare environmental reporting, R2 data locations.
Care includes the people using the service.
Your files and personal data deserve respect. We don’t sell your files or use their contents to train AI. Funding restoration does not excuse careless treatment of people’s privacy. The way we earn money matters alongside what we do with it.
Companies must act. People make them act.
We want companies to take responsibility for the systems they depend on. We want people to ask harder questions, build better alternatives and support businesses that answer honestly.
Choosing a service won’t fix the world on its own. Changing where businesses direct their resources can make a lasting difference. We’re starting with Ferndrop. We hope others go further.
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