Big impact can start with small change
Round up your purchases and plant a tree with every swipe. The Plant Your Change program turns your spare change into real world change by funding reforestation projects around the world. Earn cash rewards for different tree planting milestones (details here). Apply for an Aspiration account and fund your first tree planting today!¹
Link any credit or debit card to start planting trees
With Plant Your Change, Aspiration customers can round up purchases on both your Aspiration card and external debit or credit cards. Getting started is simple:
1
Connect your credit or debit card in the app
Sign up in less than 5 minutes using Plaid, a secure financial service used by 1 in 4 Americans.
2
Swipe your card to fund tree planting
We’ll automatically round up every purchase to the nearest dollar and fund a tree planting with your spare change.²
Take control of your impact with flexible settings
Take control of your impact with flexible settings
Set your comfort level
Choose a maximum number of trees to fund each week.
Pause anytime
Need a break? You can easily pause Plant Your Change whenever you like.
Big impact can start with small change
How many times per week do you use your debit or credit card?
15
780
Every time you swipe your card we plant a tree...
400,140
..which would be equivalent to mitigating the emissions from this many miles driven by the average gas-powered car
Emissions amounts are calculated using an estimated 200.4 kg CO2e absorbed over each tree’s lifetime, which is based on Aspiration’s current tree planting portfolio with veritree. This CO2e absorption amount is equivalent to avoiding 513 miles driven by an average gasoline-powered passenger vehicle.
Aspiration is here to help you fight climate change every time you spend, save, and invest. With Plant Your Change, our community is funding millions of trees, one purchase at a time.
It takes all of us to make a difference—but together, we can drive real impact.
We partnered with the best in the business
We work with leading reforestation partners around the world to ensure every tree planted makes a real impact - reviving ecosystems, protecting biodiversity, and supporting local communities. Our planting locations include Kenya, Mozambique, Madagascar, Honduras, Brazil, and here in the U.S.
Frequently asked questions
You can find more information about our Tree Planting program and read our tree planting FAQs on our Tree Planting page.
The average tree planted by Aspiration's reforestation partners will remove an estimated 252.4 kgCO2e from the earth’s atmosphere over its lifetime.³
To change your Plant Your Change settings, log in to your account by clicking on the Login link in the top navigation. Once logged in, click the tree icon in the upper righthand corner of the page. That will take you to the Planting Preferences page where you can limit the number of transactions you’d like to round up each week or pause your funding and round-ups.
You can also click the profile icon in the upper righthand corner of the page to reach the My Profile page, where you can change your linked debit or credit card, or change your linked bank account (which is charged periodically for your round-ups).
On signing up, you’ll connect your credit or debit card via Aspiration’s platform, using a connection service called Plaid (a safe and secure third party being used by 1 in 4 Americans https://plaid.com/how-we-handle-data/). If you connect a credit card to Plant Your Change, we’ll also ask you to link your bank account from which we will draw the roundups on your purchases.⁴
After that, when you swipe your debit or credit card - we’ll fund a tree planting by rounding up your change.
Example: Coffee Purchase for $3.88 → Rounded-Up to $4! And a tree planting is funded!
It doesn’t matter what kind of card you have or what you buy - each round up funds the planting of a tree!