Managing Director of Viatek Central Victoria Peter Bull, walks the talk when it comes to sustainability. He understands that “being green is not just a potential competitive business advantage, it is also a good way to reduce costs and create more streamlined business processes”. This year, Fifteen Trees planted 165 trees to reduce the carbon […]
Archives: Tree Plantings
Sustainable Environment Arts Movement (SEAM)
Fifteen Trees is a proud to support the local arts scene and when arty duo Tracy Bourne and Lisa Kendal established a production company called SEAM (Sustainable Environment Arts Movement), we were very interested. Earlier this year, SEAM wrote and produced a climate play for secondary school students called Ella’s Choice. We jumped at the […]
G.J Gardner Mildura supporting our native environment.
Ross Morley, Managing Director of G. J. Gardner Homes has been supporting our native environment (through Fifteen Trees) since 2013 and has since helped plant 1000’s of trees across Victoria and Tasmania. Each office in the 2 states plant 15 trees for every new home built. This year, this will add up to over 7,000 […]
Bendigo Funerals supports tree planting at Huntly (Vic).
Simon Mulqueen from Bendigo Funerals has once again supported our local native environment by purchasing 100 trees and (very important for survival rates) tree guards. The trees went to Nicole Howie from the Northern Bendigo Landcare Group and were planted at Huntly Pound with the help of local kindergarten children, parents, kinder staff and landcarers. […]
Fifteen Trees in Queensland
Students at Queensland’s Innisfail State College (a combined secondary school and TAFE) have been working hard over a number of years to improve the native area around their school. Many hours work has gone into the riverbank along the Johnstone River (which runs behind the school). With earlier plantings helping to stabilize the riverbank, students […]
Trees for Kalimna Park, Castlemaine (Vic)
Kalimna Park is a 175 h.a. bushland reserve on the north eastern side of Castlemaine. Largely cleared of native vegetation by gold digging in the 1850’s, and areas of gold mining up until the 1920’s, the park has been the focus of the Friends of Kalimna Park for some twenty years. Areas of revegetation and […]
Planting trees at Black Hill Primary School (Vic)
Dear Colleen, We picked up our bare-rooted trees (from Avalon Nursery) during the final week of last term, and planted them straight away. Our Environmental Monitors along with our teachers helped plant the trees. It was wonderful to receive such a generous donation for our school, and it will be great in the springtime to […]
Livos Australia supports tree planting.
Queensland Innisfail State College (a combined secondary school and TAFE) have been working hard over a number of years to improve the area around their school and in particular the banks of the Johnstone River that runs behind the campus. Earlier plantings have helped stabilize the riverbank, and students are now encouraged to extend their […]
Blue Mountain Eco Tours Supports Tree Planting
Queensland Innisfail State College (a combined secondary school and TAFE) have been working hard over a number of years to improve the area around their school and in particular the banks of the Johnstone River that runs behind the campus. Earlier plantings have helped stabilize the riverbank, and students are now encouraged to extend their […]
Diversified running a green(er) AWRE.
Diversified Communications have decided to make their next Australian Waste & Recycling Exhibition (AWRE) a light (carbon) footprint event by providing 100 trees to a community group for planting. Working with Fifteen Trees, trees were distributed to Manor Lakes Secondary College, Wyndham Vale, where the students planted the native trees on their school grounds. Manor […]