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'Plant a Tree in Merrylee’
and
reduce your carbon footprint
Click the button below to see details of trees and to donate.
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 carbon footprint are your travel needs and your electricity demands at home. We know cars, buses and aeroplanes burn fuel and your home uses a lot of electricity that generally comes from fossil fuel burning power plants. All these actions contribute to global warming and climate change.
Why do you
need to offset your carbon emissions? Everyone has a responsibility to the world we live in now and a responsibility to future generations. Reducing our carbon emissions is obviously important in slowing down or even reversing climate change and there needs to be an easy and effective way to do it. Given that we all contribute to the problem, we should all contribute to a solution. Evidence of climate change can be seen now, this means we need to act now.
The role of
trees in offsetting your emissions. Trees act as natural filters of our air. Through the process of photosynthesis they absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in their trunk, branches, leaves, roots, soil and foliage, while releasing oxygen back out. Not only are trees an effective means for absorbing and storing the carbon you emit, they are also a source of beauty, give great spiritual benefit while helping to regulate local and regional rainfall and providing essential habitats for native wildlife.
Reduce your
carbon footprint – Plant a tree in Merrylee. You could help reduce your carbon footprint and offset your own personal carbon emissions by ‘planting a tree in Merrylee’. Merrylee Primary School has been selected to incorporate a natural play environment within their new playground. What this means is that the school will have an area within its playground for natural play allowing children to connect with the natural environment; create their own play; increase levels of activity and develop social and interpersonal skills. This is a unique and wonderful opportunity for Merrylee Primary who really believe in the ethos of ‘natural play’ and have worked hard to seek guidance and secure the funding for this project. The project will be used as a pilot which will form a template for future playgrounds at schools in the Glasgow area and will inform future natural play developments in school playgrounds throughout Scotland and beyond.
In practice the natural play area will incorporate the following features instead of the usual level tarmac playground: -
You can offset your carbon emissions while helping to fund a local project by sponsoring a tree in the new playground or making a donation towards planting. Click the button below to see details and donate.
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