This month, the City of Ballarat and Pilkinton Productions hosted 11 visitors from Ballarat’s sister city of Inagawa (Japan). The students were billeted with families and joined in with their outings, chores and daily run-arounds.
As a gift to the hosts, Fifteen Trees has planted 11 trees at the Learmonth Community Gardens. One for every host family. Friends Of Learmonth Gardens were delighted to receive the trees and they wrote … “Dear Colleen, We have just added your 15 trees to the native screening plantation. These trees which will provided much needed shelter from wind for our orchard and vegetable garden. Thank you for the initiative”.
The trees were planted at the Learmonth Community Gardens by Liz Charles and the Friends Group. These gardens are located in the centre of Learmonth, next to the Anglican Church (on your right heading west).
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Carolyn Byrnes and the families of Wemyss-Romeril, Dalton, Jeffrey, Jamali, Wedley-Versloot, Vallance, Edwards, Morrison, Gray and Gordon-Harrison all hosted a visitor from Inagawa.
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We cannot do without trees nor bees. Ana and Sven from Amber Drop Honey, recognise that we are all interconnected, and that there is no future in taking without giving back.
According to Sustainability Victoria, the average Australian lifestyle produces 15,000kg of carbon per year. If that sounds like a lot, it is! Over its lifetime, a tree can collect and store 268kg. This means, we each need to plant 58 trees per year to bring our individual carbon production down to zero. A little tricky for most of us to do in our own backyards, and this is where ‘A Subscription for the Planet’ comes in.
Furnx is taking proactive steps each day and planning into the future, to ensure their company is part of a circular economy. Reducing waste and consumption of resources, and increasing recycling and reuse of materials is top of mind in every business decision they make, contributing to a more sustainable world. And now they are planting trees!
The trees were planted at the Learmonth Community Gardens by Liz Charles and the Friends Group. These gardens are located in the centre of Learmonth, next to the Anglican Church (on your right heading west).
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