Archives: Tree Plantings

One keg of wine = one tree planted.

One keg of wine = one tree planted.

TAPwines is a contemporary keg-style system of wine storage and service that significantly reduces waste, landfill, and manufacturing emissions. Andrew De Angelis and his innovative team at TAPwines plants one tree for every wine keg that is refilled with their beautiful Italian wines.     This year, TAPWines has helped us to plant another 1200 […]

Black Cockatoos of WA

Black Cockatoos of WA

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 […]

A snippet in a paper!

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.

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!

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 […]

A great initiative!

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 […]