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Plant A Tree

Protecting the planet one tree at a time 🌳

We have now been a Climate Positive Workforce, we love sharing the things we do to offset our carbon footprint and live and work more sustainably. We’re big believers in practising what we preach and always strive to find new and impactful ways to make a difference 💚
This month alone, we’ve helped fund projects including protecting old growth rainforests in Peru and peatland restoration and conservation in India, Indonesia. We can’t wait to see what other projects we’ll be supporting in the future.
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Protecting the planet one tree at a time 🌳
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Combating climate change

SBC is aimed at combating climate change and providing economic, social and environmental sustainability through community based forestry projects in the UK and developing countries. We intend to work in conjunction with corporate partners, government and intergovernmental agencies, non governmental organizations (NGOs), local authorities, and local communities to plant 1 million trees per year in locations worldwide.
SBC aims to assist countries, organizations, communities and educational institutions in their efforts to achieve ecologically sustainable development which can involve:
  • Raising public awareness of climate change and environmental issues facing the world today
  • Integrating economic, environmental, and social goals in policies and activities
  • Ensuring that environmental assets are properly valued and managed
  • Providing intergenerational equity
  • Providing communities with forests with which to derive forest products and a sustainable income
  • Providing investigational, interactive learning experiences for schools
  • Sourcing funding for current projects focused on reforestation
We currently work within UK, Asia, Africa and worldwide to campaign for better environmental practices, take action against climate change, implement small to medium tree planting projects as well as provide funding for partner projects, set up school tree nurseries and provide environmental education, and fund community development projects in rural communities centred around tree planting and reforestation.
  • We will encourage people worldwide to do something on a local level with a global impact - Planting Trees.
  • We will create long-term CO2 sinks
  • We provide a platform for global action and exchange ideas and news on climate change
  • We measure the impact of our unified effort
  • We will convince more and more people, companies and governments to ACT! Now!
  • Our plantings shall be conducted as CO2 neutral as possible
  • We will constantly expand our activities to other projects, helping to decelerate climate change
  • Please contact us for additional information and our complete services overview. We look forward to working with you!

Our Objectives

We plant new forests worldwide on your behalf, because they

  • are carbon dioxide (CO2) sinks
  • regulate vaporization
  • have a positive effect on the water cycle
  • filter pollutants from the air
  • natural habitat to numerous species
  • set an antipole to land paving
  • are essential for the survival of mankind
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Carbon Life

In the developed world the average[1] persons carbon dioxide emissions are almost 10 metric tonnes per year. This is called their carbon footprint and comes mainly from their household energy usage and transport requirements car travel, flights and commuter transport. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas which, when released into the atmosphere, acts like a thickening blanket, trapping the sun’s heat. Too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is causing the planet to warm up. To help prevent global warming, we all need to reduce our emissions and look at ways we can mitigate the emissions left over that we are responsible for. Trees are a natural green machine which absorb carbon from the atmosphere and release it as oxygen. To this end, trees are an effective way of absorbing the carbon you release into the atmosphere.

What is Your Carbon Footprint?

Your carbon footprint is the direct effect your actions and lifestyle have on the environment in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. Probably the biggest contributors to your footprint are your travel needs, and your electricity demands at home. However, all your actions have a direct or indirect impact, including your diet, and the clothes you wear. We know cars, buses and aeroplanes burn gasoline, public transport may use gasoline and electricity and your home uses a significant portion of your personal electricity needs that generally comes from fossil fuel burning power plants. All these actions contribute to accelerating global warming and climate change.

The role of trees in offsetting your emissions

Trees are green machines that act as natural filters of our air. Through the process of photosynthesis they absorb carbon dioxide (a key GHG and principle contributor to global warming) from the atmosphere and store it in their trunk, branches, leaves, roots, soil and foliage, while releasing oxygen back out.
Whereas deforestation, degradation and poor forest management reduce carbon storage in forests, sustainable management, planting, and rehabilitation of forests can increase carbon sequestration. In fact the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation states “global carbon retention resulting from reduced deforestation, increased forest regrowth and more agro-forestry and plantations could make up for about 15% of carbon emissions from fossil fuels over the next 50 years (2006).”
Not only are trees an effective means for absorbing and storing the carbon you emit, they have far reaching benefits that extend well beyond that of filtering the air. Sustainably managed forests and urban forestry projects have multiple environmental and socio-economic functions important at the global, national and local scales, and play a vital part in sustainable development. Forests are sources of wood products. They help regulate local and regional rainfall. And forests are crucial sources of food, medicine, clean drinking water, and immense recreational, aesthetic, and spiritual benefits for millions of people.

Why offset?

Everyone has a responsibility to the world we live in now and the world we leave future generations. As Mahatma Gandhi once said “one must care about a world one will not see”.
Reducing our emissions is obviously important in slowing or even reversing climate change — but with world economies booming our carbon emissions are on the rise – Britain’s CO2 levels rose about a quarter of a percent between 2004 and 2005 (BBC, 2006). And as your average person doesn’t wield the power to influence huge companies or governments to change their environmental policies, there needs to be an easier and more effective solution for concerned individuals to take action on a personal level. Given that we all contribute to the problem, we should all contribute to a solution.
Effects of climate change can be seen now, this means we need to ACT NOW.

Support Us

We are also looking for a large corporate sponsor, if you feel that your organisation could do more in terms of its social responsibility then supporting the SBC Plant A Tree is a perfect opportunity.
Please contact us for further details using our contact form.

Offset Your Carbon Emissions!

SBC also provides an easy and convenient way to donate to offset your personal carbon emissions or that of your company or organisation. This enables individuals to make a difference on a personal level. Our projects have far reaching effects beyond simply planting trees to absorb carbon, however, as we work with experienced and reputable implementation organisations to restore degraded forest areas, provide economic sustainability to rural villages through tree planting and establish educational forest centres.

Online writers wanted

We are looking for online writers & editors, who can write good articles. All those articles should contain the latest information on topics like climate change, climate research, rain forests and boreal forests, timber use, illegal cuttings of trees as well as about all local or international actions that might help to save our environment, stop the climate change and provide our users with scientific background information.
Scientific experience plus a good portion of writing experience (i.e. blogs, articles, editorials, whitepapers) are important. Students specializing in ecology, climate research, agriculture and forestry are heartily invited to join our project. Lets talk about the details directly, please send us an Email… We will get back to you immediately.
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You want to help us?

  • Go out and Plant Trees! Don’t drive 300 miles to plant one.
  • If you know of places, where we can plant in significant numbers (starting from 1 ha - approx. 2.000 trees) please let us now.
  • If you are a tree nursery - please contact us and register to become a partner.
  • If you are a land owner - sell us land for acceptable prices.
  • If you are part of a government - and you know how we can cooperate - let us know.
  • If you like the idea - spread the word! To Friends, Companies, Land Owners, Governments, Tree Nurseries, etc.
  • Join us to help promoting the site in other languages. We are seeking people who write or translate articles in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindi, Urdu, Arabic, etc.

Deforestation

The world is losing 70 acres of forests every minute.

Climate
Change

Already, sea levels are rising as polar ice caps melt.

Loss of
Diversity

We are losing a species every hour. Extinction means forever!

Plant a Tree, Build the Forest, Sustain our Earth, and Enlighten our Future.
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