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NATALIE PLANTS MORE DAC TREES! To celebrate the Year of Biodiversity |
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2010 is
the Year of Biodiversity, so when John Buckley, MD of
Carbon Footprint Ltd invited me to join him in the London
Tree Planting event at the West London Academy, I was more than
happy to accept the invitation. Out of the 2,500 trees that have been planted at the Academy, Dial-a-Cab has contributed almost 1,000 of them over the past three years as part of a larger project to offset the climate change and carbon-offsetting programme. As there were over 100 trees to plant on this occasion, I enlisted the assistance of Caroline McGowan, Dial-a-Cab’s Customer Service Manager, to come along with me. Also joining the event was |
 Natalie, Caroline, John Buckley and David Bellamy togther with some of the Academy Children |
calculate how many different
species of wild plants were growing among the trees,
whilst explaining the purpose of every tree to us. Tree planting, is part of a larger offsetting project that Dial-a-Cab have in place. In addition, DaC are also funding reforestation projects in Kenya and Guatemala, along with helping renewable energy projects in developing countries through the purchasing and cancelling of carbon credits from projects such as a Small Hydropower Plant in Guizhou Province of China. For more info, take a look at this website: HERE. Natalie Ezekiel |
| none-other than David Bellamy, who gave a short and informative talk on what this means to the UK. Then along with some young volunteer pupils from the Academy, it was off to plant some trees and of course many stops en route as our famous botanist took every opportunity to stop and | ||
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