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Green Street Workplace Badges
Planting Improving our forests and natural habitats
  • Planting Badge
Trees help the environment in many ways – they soak up carbon, beautify the environment, support wildlife and provide food or leisure resources for the community. Your workplace can plant or sponsor trees and get involved in local volunteer organisations.

How to earn this badge

If you do four or more of these, you will earn a Planting Badge (Workplace).

  1. We plant at least 10 trees or shrubs per month, or organize others to do so on our behalf
  2. We plant trees indigenous to our location
  3. Our workplace sponsors staff to work for volunteer organizations responsible for tree planting, seed gathering, native plant propagation or regeneration of natural resources
  4. We plant fruit trees
  5. We plant bush tucker trees
  6. We follow First Nations peoples’ approaches to growing, harvesting and using bush tucker
  7. We practice relevant First Nations approaches to caring for land and resources
  8. We donate to or are members of at least two organizations advocating for improving our forests and natural habitats

How to add a badge to your profile

Sign in and go to your member profile page, then select 'Review my badges'. Follow the 'Read more' links to check the actions for each badge, and tick checkboxes for any badges you have earned. Once you've clicked the 'save' button, the selected badges will display on your profile.

Remember, Green Street Badges rely on each member's honest declaration of what they are doing to be sustainable, so check the actions for each badge carefully!