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Tree Twinning -
A connected world
We live in a very connected world - International trade, rapid communications and affordable travel have brought us closer together. But nature has been globally connected for millions of years. Everything in nature affects something else which means that green issues have to be addressed globally.
Our lives and businesses may seem local but our commercial choices and western standards of living create global impacts on economies which effect peoples’ lives and the environments in which they live.
We have to face the fact that we live in a global community. This gives us global responsibilities for people’s lives and the environments they live in.
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What is Tree Twinning?
Tree Twinning offers Tree Appeal partner companies the opportunity to twin the trees they are planting at home with trees in developing countries.
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Why should a company tree twin?
• The environment is a global issue and must be addressed globally
• Developing countries have the need and desire to conserve and plant trees but lack the financial resources to do so
• Trees create vital habitat and promote biodiversity - a valued global inheritance and future asset. We all have a responsibility to be global stewards.
 Reducing our environmental impact
People have to live and their lives will always create an environmental impact. The challenge for us all is how to reduce that impact while helping developing countries to develop financially, raising the standards of living of their people. For many people this means introducing things we in the West would consider standard – clean water, sanitation, proper nutrition, health care and decent education.
A lack of understanding of environmental stewardship has caused today’s global environmental problems with many species becoming extinct and many more now on the endangered list.
The way forward is to replace that lack of understanding with enlightenment through education, engendering the need to carry out our global business practices in environmentally sustainable ways. Tree Appeal believes the future lies in the education of children at home and abroad so that they gain an appreciation of the global connectedness of nature and people.
By linking education to tree planting activities we are growing trees and minds, making, ‘a greener world and a better life for all’.
In developing countries poverty is still very prevalent and education is by no means accessible to all. The quality of education can also be poor. The two most valuable resources a country has are its people and its environment. The way to harness and preserve both is through education which brings knowledge and the desire to create change.
By working with developing countries through their education we can give them the benefit of our experience. An important lesson is how we in the West got it wrong by not making the environment integral to our business activities.
Tree Appeal assists developing countries by making education accessible to all, improving its quality and linking it to environmental education through the growing and planting of trees.
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