For three weeks in July 2012, Greenpop is hosting a reforestation project in Livingstone, Zambia; the country with the second highest deforestation rate in the world. They will be planting over 5000 indigenous and fruit trees that are growing at the Zambezi Nkuku nursery, and hosting valuable educational sessions for children and subsistence farmers. This will be the start of an ongoing campaign to make Zambia a greener and more sustainable place.
A responsible corporate company joins hands with an environmental NGO to take on the cause of sustainable forestry in Uganda.
In another succesful partnership between an environmental NGO and a responsible corporate sponsor, a hectare of carbon-balancing bamboo plants arrive for the benefit of a vulnerable community.
Inspiring 20 year old, Khethi Ngwenya was working towards his dream of becoming an entrepreneur through his small media company, SchoolMedia when he realised that many schools, particularly those in the townships, were almost devoid of greenery with no grass to speak of, let alone trees.
I walk through the landscape. Italy is such a big and amazing place to discover. We have a long history, a great artistic heritage from the Etrurian age, the Roman Empire, the Middle Ages local cultures and towns, the Renaissance masterpieces, etc.
By not supporting a moratorium on the on-going trapping and shooting of baboons in FSC-certified timber plantations in South Africa, FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) International seems to place economic interests above ecological values.
Bushmans Kloof Wilderness Reserve & Wellness Retreat has long been committed to saving the endangered Clanwilliam cedar tree (Widdringtonia cedarbergensis) from extinction.
120 volunteers from Japan visited Swartkop Valley Primary School to help improve their food garden.
'And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.' (Shakespeare)
In previous years, the Diocese of Vasteras, the Lutheran Swedish Church and the Norwegian Lutheran Church Endowment, have been investing heavily in the expansion of pine and eucalyptus tree monocultures in central and northern Mozambique through the companies Chikweti Forests de Niassa, TectonaForests of Zambezia, Ntacua Florestas de Zambezia and Florestas de Messangulo.
Three giants on the sustainable development front have partnered to plant 112 trees in the Mbekweni township just north of Paarl as part of Food and Trees for Africa's Trees for Homes initiative.
The 5-star Mont Rochelle Hotel & Mountain Vineyards in Franschhoek has embarked on an innovative tree-planting venture that affords select repeat guests the opportunity to plant their very own olive tree on the Mont Rochelle property. This forms part of a dedicated drive to minimize the carbon footprint of this environmentally responsible establishment, while encouraging guests to leave their own 'green' footprint.
Zoom Advertising has embarked on a number of greening initiatives to show it cares for the environment and is a conscious brand. Deon Robbertze is the Creative Director of Zoom Advertising and the pioneering force behind Zoom's green initiatives. He also developed the 'My Tree in Africa' project, which aims to 'green' the tourist industry.
Over 2 500 'tree-preneurs' who plant, grow and sell indigenous trees are developing a regular source of income in areas with little or no access to formal employment, whilst greening the environment.
In support of this initiative and to recognise South Africa's 11th annual Arbour week from 1 to 7 September, Woolworths is supporting the planting of 3 000 indigenous trees in the Vosloorus (Gauteng) area of the programme.
On a recent Saturday morning a group of members of our wine club and their family and friends gathered at the farm for a day of tree planting, wine tasting and a well-earned lunch. Part of being a Backsberg Wine Club member involves the opportunity to plant a tree in your family's name, on the farm. This ties into our philosophy of care for the environment; it was important for me to extend that view to the wine club.
More than 300 community members from Paarl-based township Mbekweni participated in an extensive tree-planting initiative, launched by KWV yesterday. 500 fruit trees were planted as the first phase of a project that aims to establish 2 670 trees in the next year.
Backsberg Wine Estate and Starke Ayres Garden Centre came up with a novel way to encourage tree planting last month.
With the purchase of a case of wine from the Backsberg Tasting Room during September, people had the option of taking home either a Halleria lucida tree or a voucher for Starke Ayres in Cape Town. The latter, in turn, gave away a bottle of Backsberg Chenin Blanc 2009 with every tree purchased.
The trees were planted through the Wildlands Conservation Trust. The project aims to teach children and adults how to grow trees. The children and adults, referred to as "tree-preneurs" can then trade the growing trees for food, clothing, agricultural goods and tools or school and tertiary fees. These trees are then planted back into communities or in the Wildlands forest restoration projects.
On Earth Day, Accor Hospitality celebrated Earth Guest day and announced that it had crossed the initial one million trees threshold of its Plant for the Planet project.
I recently came across a story about a woman who lived for 2 years in a giant redwood tree in a forest on the west coast of the USA. It forms part of a collection of first-person stories of courage in a book titled 'Women of Spirit' (New World Library, 2001). Julia Hill's 2-year sojourn in the tree began as part of an environmental sit-in to stop loggers felling trees in an ancient forest. Most activists did a week stint at a time, either staying high up in a makeshift tree-house, or chained to the base of the tree, in both cases hindering the logging company from cutting down trees that were 1000 years old. Julia's 2-year stay started out as an act to get media attention to save the forest ' but became something far deeper for herself. I was captivated by this inner journey...
