Marsupials tend get the spotlight, but one of Australia’s crowning glories has to be our parrots. Especially our cockatoos. They are colourful, characterful, noisy, beloved, and ours. But some of them, to our national shame, are now endangered. In Western Australia, centuries of land clearing for wheat and other European-style farming enterprises have […]
Archives: Tree Plantings
A snippet in a paper!
On June 30th, in Good Living magazine and The Age newspaper, Take 5 section, Fifteen Trees found itself a humble corner. Just a couple of sentences. The magazine wrote about how planting fifteen trees each year is roughly enough to capture the carbon your car emits, and that Fifteen Trees can help. Well, […]
Soul in the Blues.
Ash Grunwald has been described as ‘an advocate purely and simply of the Earth’. Last year his fans were given the opportunity to take action for the earth too – alongside enjoying Ash’s musical offerings. Anyone purchasing a concert ticket through Moshtix could, at the same time, purchase a tree. Ash’s musical heritage […]
A Sustainable Wedding!
Shane and Su Yin, who married on March 7th this year at Bawley Vale Estate, Bawley Point, NSW, chose to give gifts to their guests, but not in the traditional sense of bombonieres (sugared almonds). Instead, as they informed guests, they did something way better – they organised the planting of one tree on the […]
Planting trees on the other side of the world.
What do you do when you want to plant trees for the earth in a big way, but you don’t have the physical space to do it, and you can’t find the right partner to help you out? You form your own partner, and you broaden your horizons. This is exactly what Oblong Ltd, a […]
To Tasmania with love.
It’s fair to say 2020 hasn’t gone quite like anyone had planned. Of course, there’s the underlying fear of the virus itself and what it can do. But the truly novel, unsettling thing the pandemic has done to us is to fundamentally upset our sense of connection. How do we support each other if we […]
From Angus & Celeste with love.
Angus and Celeste are long time supporters of our tree planting projects. To date, they have helped us plant 2475 trees across Australia. This month, we planted another 375 trees on their behalf. This brand is adorable! It consists of handmade ceramics with strong themes connected to nature. Located in the hills of Victoria, Angus […]
A great initiative!
Paul McCuskey and Jason Neil, from Ballarat building company MacNeil Group are continuing their support of tree planting communities and their revegetation projects. This year, 200 of their trees went to Barfold, VIC while another 40 trees went to Campbell’s Bridge, VIC. These trees will help reduce the carbon emissions of their 8 company cars (15 […]
A birthday gift – trees!
Last year, Belinda Coates asked her friends and family to buy her trees for her birthday. Thirty people chipped in and as a result 175 trees were purchased for the Napoleon Enfield Landcare Group, VIC. From Belinda … ‘Birthdays are important milestones but I’m not really one for big celebrations. However, I love the idea […]
Skretting. With an eye on the future!
Food security is something that should concern us all. Needless to say, it goes hand in hand with responsible environmental stewardship. One company that takes both issues very seriously is Skretting, a sustainability-award-winning world leader in the manufacture and supply of aquaculture feed. In lay terms, Skretting makes fish food. In a big way. It […]
