Flexicar, the premier car sharing company in Melbourne are ‘on a roll’ in the tree planting scene and have helped plant out another forest of trees (600). On Friday 26th July, 50 students and teachers from the local primary school, planted 400 trees in only a few short hours. The other 200 trees were planted the very next day.
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The aim is to re-vegetate the area to increase biodiversity and provide habitat for wildlife including the Greater Glider and Long-nosed Bandicoot that live in the adjacent Number Two Creek Reserve. We would like to thank Fifteen Trees and their supporters for providing the trees for this important project.
Chris Coburn, Upper Goulburn Landcare Network.
A huge thank you to Simon Bracken, the Marketing Manager at Flexicar who has taken this project on. As a bike commuter and green enthusiast, Simon did not need any convincing to support our native forests through Fifteen Trees.
Slainte – Colleen
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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. (Feature image from Mt Worth Landcare).
Individual actions really do matter! Individually we can really only make small differences to the world around us, but collectively our numbers add up. And if enough individuals are involved then forests can be grown!
