Online marketing specialists are planting for success23 Feb
Online marketing specialists Speedie Consultants have teamed up with the Carbon Managers Trees4Business initiative so that each time they take on a new client, a tree is planted.
Stella Hulott, Director at Speedie Consultants said: “We wanted to do something that was a bit more lasting that just sending off a cheque to a charity. With Trees4Business, we really are investing and donating to the future.
“Each time we take on a new client, we will plant a tree on their behalf. In this way, we hope that we will not only grow our ethically operated business but give something back to the environment too. In some small way, we also hope that working with this initiative will be another reason why companies want to do business with us.”
The company have already planted 8 trees to cover new clients taken onboard in 2010 and the plan is to grow this over the coming months.
Stella concludes: “By setting ourselves a ‘different’ type of target of planting trees, we hope that our growing success will lead to far reaching benefits for the environment. We also recommend that other companies look at these types of eco-friendly ways to acknowledge their successes.”
Tree Facts
- One person causes about 10 tonnes of carbon dioxide to be emitted a year. One tree removes about a tonne of CO2 over its lifetime.
- By cooling the air and ground around them, the shade from trees helps cool the Earth’s temperature
- A single mature beech tree can produce enough oxygen for 10 people in a year.
- Trees renew our air supply by absorbing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen.
- Shade trees can make buildings up to 20 degrees cooler in the summer.
- Trees lower air temperature by evaporating water in their leaves.
- Tree roots stabilize soil and prevent erosion.
- Trees improve water quality by slowing and filtering rain water, as well as protecting aquifers and watersheds.
- Over one given year; one hectare of mature woodland will absorb the carbon emissions of 100 average family cars.
- It is estimated that the average person in the UK consumes the equivalent of 12 trees a year. This present rate of world consumption is unsustainable and yet trees are vital to our life on earth.
