Plant desert-adapted shade trees beside Calexico's bare bus stops.

Imperial Valley Transit riders in Calexico wait in full desert sun at stops with no shelter and no shade, in the hottest inhabited corner of the state. A desert-adapted shade tree beside each invited stop (mesquite, palo verde class species) will shade those waits for decades on almost no water. This is the cheapest permanent transit improvement available here.

Where

Bus stops along Imperial Ave corridor, Calexico, CA 92231 · Open the map

Pay

$340 proposed

This packet is not funded yet, so this figure is a proposed price and not money waiting in escrow. If a buyer funds it, approved proof settles that price onchain. If nobody funds it, approved proof earns provable credit toward the work instead of cash — recorded, and readable any time at vealth.net/labor/credit/(your wallet). You see which before you claim, never after.

Proof

Per-stop planted-tree photos plus log with GPS/date

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-18

Posted by

0x034F…6c89

The creator wallet. Its signature is what approves proof and settles the wage.

How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Steps

1. Confirm approved planting spots and 811 marking at each stop.
2. Dig, set, and backfill each desert-adapted tree with root flare at grade.
3. Basin, deep-water, mulch, and stake against wind.
4. Log species and stop locations.
5. Photograph each planted tree with the stop in frame and record with GPS and date.

What counts as done

• Photo of each planted tree with stop visible
• Close-up of basin and stake
• Species and stop log
• GPS-tagged photo with date

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.

The standard this serves

Urban Canopy. Urban canopy is the layer of leaves over a city, and it is infrastructure as surely as the pipes below the street: shade that cools a block in a heat wave, roots that drink a storm. The i-Tree protocol turns it into something you can count, tree by tree, so a city knows what it has and what it is losing. Mastery looks like a person who can read a whole street's trees at a walk. This packet is a piece of that census: a few trees observed carefully and recorded where the record counts.