A visitor giveback scheme that captures carbon.
Glenorchy, Otago
The best souvenirs are the ones we grow for you to leave behind.
The Glenorchy Community Native Plant Nursery is unashamedly quantifying the carbon produced by our visitors and residents and providing means to counter it that also supports skilled, high value, and worthwhile employment in our community. A not for profit, nature based solution where everyone’s a winner!
This isn’t about becoming part of a formally certified offset scheme - we’re not that - its’ just about doing the right thing and making a difference.
Every $ you donate will be used to capture carbon and be magnified by the work of our local volunteers.
It takes 5 native trees 50 years to capture 1 tonne of CO2e . It costs $25 to grow one from locally ecosourced seeds, nurture it in our nursery and then, having planted it locally, give it love and attention for the next 3 years.
$2 will capture the carbon produced by the average car driving from Queenstown to Glenorchy and back.
$3.50 will capture the carbon produced by the average car driving from Queenstown to the Routeburn and back.
$5 will capture the carbon produced, on average, by a passenger enjoying a jet boat tour on the Dart River
$10 will counter the carbon produced, on average, by a passenger enjoying a 20 minute Heli flight
We love our visitors and we’d love you to help us take care of your carbon.
Paying people in our community to grow and plant native trees and shrubs to capture carbon, improve biodiversity and create worthwhile employment.
Nursery update Spring 2024 19 August 2024
A huge thank you to all who have donated to this page, it is greatly appreciated. We are re-opening this page as there is still work to do over the coming years and we have 8ha of land to revegetate around the village.
We’re nearly out of the winter and getting ready for the coming tree planting season. All the funds received to date have been used to support the nursery and we have around 1500 plants in the nursery ready to be planted this year and have planted around a 1000 to date.
Your ongoing support will help us lock in the gains to date, continue to restore our native landscape and sequester more carbon.
Thank you for supporting our work, it’s greatly appreciated.
Hi Kathryn, thank you very much from the nursery team for making this donation - it’s so appreciated.
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