Commerce Ballarat aims to provide strong leadership when it comes to doing business in greater Ballarat. One of the important ways it does this is by encouraging sustainable thinking. This year Commerce Ballarat decided to plant one tree for every entry in its annual Business Excellence Awards. We think this is a brilliant strategy […]
Planting State: Victoria
Effective Electrical A Grade Citizens
Effective Electrical are bright sparks. Not only because they are experts in commercial, industrial, and domestic wiring, as well as with solar installations, but they are bright sparks because also they deeply care for our environment. The Ballarat based business have long demonstrated this commitment via tree planting – 5 trees per every […]
People Power + community with heart
With sleeves rolled up and a vast amount of determination in their walk, 24 students from Loreto and St Patrick’s College emerged onsite at Ballarat’s Victoria Park on Friday 28 May with one mission on their minds…to plant 350 trees, native grasses and shrubs. The planting was a culmination of a […]
Evoke Group – environmentally friendly building solutions
Evoke Group has been established in Ballarat for over fifteen years. It’s a real ‘do anything’ team of building experts – from renovations and brand-new builds though to a modest carport or new slice of decking. With all this going on, Evoke still keeps one eye firmly on its broader vision, which is to focus […]
Small Business Making a Big Impact.
Here’s an interesting fact – you don’t have to be a big business to make a big impact. You can be a small business, even a tiny one, and still make a significant positive contribution to the environment. We already know that small businesses are vital for local economies, that they keep money in the […]
A Shaw Thing
Shaw Contract is all about foundations. Their core business is quite literally the world beneath our feet: floor coverings. They talk a lot about stability, sustainability, resilience and support, all key words that resonate strongly with us here at Fifteen Trees. Shaw Contract put its broader sustainability credentials into practice recently with a tree planting […]
WPA. Where people are its strength.
The Western Program Alliance (WPA) is a project team with a particularly specialised skillset – it is very good at removing level crossings. The WPA comprises McConnell Dowell, Arup and Mott Macdonald, Metro Trains Melbourne, VLine and the Level Crossing Removal Project. In amongst all their work is a strong vein of environmental action, from sourcing […]
Macneil Group – Literal Legends
We love it when businesses take us literally. Like the Macneil Group, which plants fifteen trees for each vehicle in its fleet. For those new to us, our name – Fifteen Trees – comes from a carbon offsetting calculation. The combined emissions from running a regular car for one year can be offset by planting […]
Canopy Trees
We are delighted to announce that Canopy Fitouts recently purchased 500 trees for one of our favourite Melbourne sites – Westgate Park, Port Melbourne. And as an added bonus, on Friday June 25th, the team joined us and Friends of Westgate Park, on site, to plant the trees. Westgate Park is a ‘work […]
Seeing the paper and the trees!
We love an obvious link between the things we consume and the ways we can offset our consumption. And could there be anything simpler than planting trees to make up for the paper we use? Newington College in NSW has decided to apply this elegant solution to its 2020 paper usage. This thoughtful school has […]
