We love going out planting with companies who ‘walk the talk‘. Those companies who make sustainability the norm in the workplace. Who go beyond what is expected! One such company is Luminary. A creative digital business who has not only completed a carbon audit and gone completely carbon neutral but who have also joined forces with Fifteen Trees and chipped in to purchase 500 trees for one of our favourite revegetation sites … Westgate Park.
The team from Luminary.
Big shout out to Marty Drill, Founder of Luminary. Luminary turned 20 this year and what a way to celebrate! Marty not only purchased the trees, but also arranged for staff, family and friends to join with Fifteen Trees and Biodiversity Westgate to spend a morning, helping plant 535 native trees, understory shrubs and grasses. The indigenous plants were sourced from local nursery Bili Nursery
The Biodiversity Westgate Group is engaged in a very successful re-vegetation program at the park which involves annual planting of 25,000 trees. As these trees grow, the biodiversity of the area is improving. It is becoming a popular place for both people and for the birds and animals that choose to make the park their home. The Park is managed by Parks Victoria with a lot of input from Westgate Biodiversity and Friends of Westgate Park. Over the years, there has been extensive plantings of indigenous trees and shrubs. As a result of the re-vegetation work, Westgate Park is ‘now a haven for a variety of bird species including stilts, ibis, spoonbills, ducks, gulls, coots, pelicans, swans and moorhens’.
Pete and Ivy tree planting
Thank you Marty and team for spending your precious Sunday morning planting with us. And thank you too for your generous purchase of 500 trees. Happy 20th birthday!
Sláinte – Colleen
If you would like Fifteen Trees to organise a team building day with your company, contact Colleen at <[email protected]> or on 0400 040 659. In the meantime, you can find out more information here. Did you know that 93% of Victorians believe business and industry should take action to be more sustainable (Sustainability Vic 2017).
WPA acknowledges that when it comes to environmental initiatives, its people are its strength. It has recently partnered with us to plant a selection of native trees for each hard-working staff member identified as a Sustainability Warrior.
Sometimes there are really simple things everyone can do to reduce their carbon footprint. When staying at a hotel, choosing to skip the room cleaning and having a tree planted instead, is one of those things’. Hotels for Trees.
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!
The Biodiversity Westgate Group is engaged in a very successful re-vegetation program at the park which involves annual planting of 25,000 trees. As these trees grow, the biodiversity of the area is improving. It is becoming a popular place for both people and for the birds and animals that choose to make the park their home. The Park is managed by Parks Victoria with a lot of input from Westgate Biodiversity and Friends of Westgate Park. Over the years, there has been extensive plantings of indigenous trees and shrubs. As a result of the re-vegetation work, Westgate Park is ‘now a haven for a variety of bird species including stilts, ibis, spoonbills, ducks, gulls, coots, pelicans, swans and moorhens’.
