Million Metres Stream Project
Tuesday, March 31, 2015 -
Chow:Hill commits to regeneration of the Waikohu River Tributary project - Gisborne.
This is our fifth year of reporting through our Company Social Responsibility framework - the report illustrates the impacts our activities have on the environment, and in one particular indicator, our CO2 emissions. Previously we had participated in the Sustainable Business Network's Carbon4Good scheme for our carbon offsets.
The latest initiative, the SBN’s Million Metres Stream Project, enables us instead to offset our carbon footprint by contributing to the planting of a specific length of public or private waterways in New Zealand. In our case this is the Waikohu River Tributary project in Gisborne. For the six months just gone this will result in the planting of some 52 meters of river, and over a year a little over 100 metres. While over time we are working to reduce our CO2 emissions, the MMS project provides us the opportunity to maintain or increase our contributions if we wish.
The drive behind MMS is to improve water quality, reduce erosion and create habitats for both plants and aquatic animals. Their ambition is the restoration of one million metres of New Zealand’s riparian waterways.
As a team of designers, and specifically including a team of landscape architects, the project fits perfectly with our company values and ethos. We are happy to support a world first initiative and hope it encourages more New Zealanders to get involved.
Donations can be made on the MMS website at the following address http://millionmetres.org.nz/
For further information please contact Maurice Kiely - mauirce.kiely@chowhill.co.nz
Maurice is a Director of Chow:Hill and leads our company sustainability programme and CSR reporting.
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