Rotary tree planting project in Australia by

1. Introducing
GroTrees
A project of the Rotary Club of Chatswood Sunrise
G’day from

2. What is Chatswood Sunrise’s GroTrees Project?
• It supports Rotary International’s Sustainability aims
• It works with government and non-government partners
• It benefits local communities and the environment
• It encourages others to reduce their carbon footprint
• It provides opportunities for people to hug a tree and feel good about it!

3. WHY GIVE A ROTREE?
Several Rotary Clubs, ours included, give RoTrees to their guest speakers – here the District
Governor at the time, John Cameron, is getting his “thank you” from President Eleanor Wu.
A guest speaker gets his RoTree
“thank you”

4. WHY GIVE A
GROTREE?
A GroTree for
a birthday.
Hopefully his
parents will
take him to
see the tree!

5. A right
Royal tree!

6. We’ve had many reasons for Grotrees to be
planted:
• Thanks for a job well-done
• To honour a person who has passed away
• To thank a retiring employee (he and and his
wife travelled from The Netherlands and
visited the tree!)
• (Best one yet) In honour of a removed gall
bladder!

7. We change the world one tree at
a time.
This is a bush fire resistant
eucalypt planted by
Landcare, Australia in the Rotary
Grove on its site at Teralba, near
Lake Macquarie, north of Sydney

8. In the beginning: Bingara 2007
At Bingara Central School – the preparations

9. Our first planting was done in 2007 in the grounds of Bingara Central School by
students in Year One. Bingara, near Inverell in northern NSW, is a sister-town with
Willoughby City. Chatswood is the central suburban area of Willoughby City

10. Seven years on, the students are now in their first year of High School and
the trees are somewhat bigger as well!

11. The official launch – February 2008.

12. The second planting site: Teralba, near
Lake Macquarie, north of Sydney
This case study can be accessed via
our web site:
www.rotarychatswoodsunrise.org.au
The site for the Rotary International
Convention Commemorative Grove
will be at Mulgoa, west of Sydney.

13. Mulgoa……… Chatswood
Sydney

14. Want to save the planet one tree at a
time?
The details at www.rotarychatswoodsunrise.org

15. Details are
on
Chatswood
Sunrise web
site
Trees are an
investment
in a
sustainable
future
Want a RoTree for yourself? Go to www.rotarychatswoodsunrise.org
Better still, use the QR code on our card.

17. When Paul Harris visited Australia in 1935 he planted trees in various cities –
Sydney has at least two: at North Sydney and at Parramatta. (That’s not your
mother over on the right, is it?)

18. There are twenty thousand here at the Convention. We can make a difference.
“Trees play an important role in addressing climate change and assisting our
agricultural areas to be more sustainable. They do this by helping to reduce
atmospheric CO2 levels. They can also assist in preventing salinity and soil
erosion, provide shade, shelter, food and habitat to native animals.”
http://www.carbonneutral.com.au/climate-change/role-of-trees.html
Further details at
www.rotarychatswoodsunrise.org

19. Branching out ….
Please consider starting up GroTrees in your Club
and your District when you return home.
Let us know how you get along with this project.
Perhaps GroTrees will become an international
success story?
You can help – go to
www.rotarychatswoodsunrise.org
(Take a card to remind you – it’s got the QR code for direct access!))