Peter King from King’s Cars has been supporting Fifteen Trees since 2010 and has helped plant over 4,000 trees in the Ballarat district. Peter plants 15 trees for every new Mitsubishi and Citroen car sold at his Ballarat dealership.
This month, 130 of Peter’s trees were planted at Rokewood PS with another 5 trees going to Manor Lakes College at Wyndham Vale.
Year 4 student Blake wrote ..
Our whole school went up the common to plant trees. The grade 4, 5, and 6’s had to go with their buddies. The trees we planted were black wattle, hedge wattle (for the little birds), red gum and drooping sheoak. I planted a dropping sheoak. Luke and I helped Emelio plant a tree. We got the trees from Fifteen Trees and Kings Cars and the guards and stakes from the Reads family. All together we planed a massive 130 trees. Ballarat Environment Network helped us plant the trees and got the site ready for us.
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Thank you to Rokewood teachers for organising the tree planting day with your students. And of course thank you to Peter King for your continuing support of our native environment.
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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!
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