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Why going out tree planting with your team is a great idea!

Why going out tree planting with your team is a great idea!

One of the best reasons for team building is that the activities actually work to accomplish improved communication. A successful team building activity, will surely mean a more comfortable, successful workplace environment for any company. And on the plus side, you are helping local community groups with their revegetation projects.     And when you […]

Best Australian Carbon Calculators.

Best Australian Carbon Calculators.

This month, we road-test carbon calculators to see which ones deliver the best user experience. A carbon calculator is a great tool to determine your impact and from there take personal climate action. Most calculators collect data from you over a number of categories. All include the 4 main areas of transport, energy, water and […]

Extinction! We are the asteroid.

Extinction! We are the asteroid.

Through fossil records, scientists have determined that there have been 5 mass extinctions in our geological history, including our most recent (65 million years ago) when the dinosaurs were wiped out, by an asteroid along with 50% of plant and animal species. Many researchers believe we are currently in the 6th Extinction, and it has […]

Spotlight on Westgate Biodiversity.

Spotlight on Westgate Biodiversity.

Fifteen Trees has been working with Westgate Biodiversity for at least 8 years now, purchasing trees for their revegetation projects and taking corporations planting (and sometimes weeding) in the park. We thought it was ‘high time’ that we put the spotlight on this fabulous organisation and its band of volunteers.     Westgate Biodiversity is […]

A sustainable Sydenham Election Campaign.

A sustainable Sydenham Election Campaign.

In December 2021, supporters of Labor MP Natalie Hutchins ran a fundraiser through Fifteen Trees to raise money towards Ms Hutchin’s State Election campaign and to help reduce their carbon footprint. As a result, the funds raised has helped Natalie run as a candidate for Sydenham while demonstrating Labor’s commitment to improving Victorias environment & […]

Biodiversity. What is it good for?

Biodiversity. What is it good for?

September is Biodiversity Month. A month to appreciate the extraordinary web of life we are part of and to encourage the protection, conservation and growth of biodiversity within Australia and worldwide.     Biodiversity refers to the variety of life on Earth and it is fundamentally important. All species, including us, rely on many other […]

Snapshot of a forest!

Snapshot of a forest!

The Great Forest National Park (Victorian Central Highlands) ‘A great city like Melbourne needs a great National Park. The Great Forest National Park is a proposal to create a huge parkland to boost tourism and save the forests and wildlife’. GFNP/Facebook The Victorian Central Highlands extends northeast of Melbourne and takes in Kinglake National Park, […]

What’s so great about native plants?

What’s so great about native plants?

Native plants are those that occur naturally in a region in which they evolved. They are the ecological basis upon which life depends! Without native plants and the insects that co-evolved with them, local birds, reptiles and mammals cannot survive.     Here are 4 great reasons to plant the native species of plants in […]