Woolworths to Plant One Tree for Each of its 17,000 Employees
Woolworths, a South African retail chain with stores throughout Africa and the Middle East, committed last month to planting 17,000 trees by 2012, one for each employee, in its efforts to reduce the business’ relative carbon footprint by 30% by the same year. From the press release:
"The first 800 trees, of an initial planting of 1000 trees, were sourced from a Woolworths Trust EduPlant school nursery in Thembisa, have been planted at our Midrand Distribution campus as part of an ongoing greening project. Planting began in December 2007. The trees - Rhus Lancea (Karee Tree), Wild Gardenia, Noltea Africana (Soup Dogwood Tree), Dais Cotinifolia (Pompom Tree), Combretum Erythrophyllum (River Bushwillow) - are all indigenous. The young saplings were planted in an area covering nearly 20 000 square metres of land.
Woolworths Trust EduPlant initiative has established itself as the leading schools food gardening and greening programme that promotes the growing of good food using permaculture techniques. Permaculture strives for agriculture that is ecologically sound and sustainable in the long term: this means that it should be non-polluting, economically and socially viable, and provide for its own needs. Woolworths Trust EduPlant is coordinated by Food and Trees for Africa."
"The first 800 trees, of an initial planting of 1000 trees, were sourced from a Woolworths Trust EduPlant school nursery in Thembisa, have been planted at our Midrand Distribution campus as part of an ongoing greening project. Planting began in December 2007. The trees - Rhus Lancea (Karee Tree), Wild Gardenia, Noltea Africana (Soup Dogwood Tree), Dais Cotinifolia (Pompom Tree), Combretum Erythrophyllum (River Bushwillow) - are all indigenous. The young saplings were planted in an area covering nearly 20 000 square metres of land.
Woolworths Trust EduPlant initiative has established itself as the leading schools food gardening and greening programme that promotes the growing of good food using permaculture techniques. Permaculture strives for agriculture that is ecologically sound and sustainable in the long term: this means that it should be non-polluting, economically and socially viable, and provide for its own needs. Woolworths Trust EduPlant is coordinated by Food and Trees for Africa."
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Permalink Reply by Emily Zielke on -
Wow! The Trust EduPlant program sounds GREAT! Are they hiring?
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Permalink Reply by dr afullo augustine on -
A worthy effort. This wil save the world.
We seem to have been thinking of the same idea. Late last year, before kenyans went for lections, I wrote a proposal for ontree per pulpil project in Bondo District, one of the poorst districts in kenya within the lake ictoria basin, with an aim of saving the lake victoria basin soil and water resourcs, while preparing for a future Bondo district with a school feeding program able to sustain itself in terms of fuel (woodfuel is the main energy source).
I am still looking for any partners who can help support the program. I will appreciate any suggestions and support from network members.
Thanks
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Permalink Reply by Andrea Flores on -
Your initiative was so great. As teachers, we encourage our students to plant a tree each month either in their homes or in school. These were taken cared of and checked weekly to maximize survival. However, the problem is when students are not with us anymore, we are not pretty sure that they continue taking care of what they had planted except for trees planted in school vicinities. This is one way of invigorating self preservation of the environment.
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Permalink Reply by Andrea Flores on
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I made a simple research study on the teacher training program of Pakistan particularly the organization where I was in for a couple of three months. Although the data were just limited and information taken through interviews and basic observations were made but its findings and results have been given certain recommendations that would help to guide and assist incoming volunteers and the organization's administration or VSO per se to help improve their training program for the benefit of any educational institution which wished to apply those recommendations. It is not only applicable to that organization but also to other institutions among third world countries.
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Permalink Reply by Erle Frayne Argonza on
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Appreciated. Having been involved with tree planting engagements before, I'd always love to see hands-on efforts to save our forest covers. I'd prefer this track over those loud-mouthing 'environmentalist' Pied Piper fear-mongering thingamajig, same Pied Pipers who really do nothing but mouth slogans and paranoia.
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