Employee Legacy Award Program: Planting Trees for the Future
Interface Americas employees now have the option of having trees planted to celebrate their years of service with the company, in lieu of traditional service awards like watches, pen sets and plaques.Interface has expanded its partnership with American Forests to include this employee recognition program in addition to the already established Trees for TravelTM and Cool Co2mmuteTM programs.
Those employees choosing the Legacy Award option are able to sponsor the planting of 80-400 trees, depending on their years of service with the company. They receive a certificate stating where the trees are planted that recognizes them for their personal commitment to the environment. Since January 2004, employees at Interface's Troup County, Georgia plants have sponsored the planting of more than 3,100 trees in the Texas Lower Rio Grande Valley Region and the Forest Lawn Scout Reservation near Lake Arrowhead, California through their employee recognition gifts.
In 2006, Interface’s trees will be planted through American Forests’ Global ReLeaf program in The Nature Conservancy's Emiquon Preserve in Illinois. Located along the Illinois River south of Peoria, Emiquon represents the largest private conservation purchase in the history of the state. For sheer biological diversity and cultural importance, Emiquon’s pre-European-settlement landscape of backwater lakes, wetlands and forests was virtually unmatched in the Midwest. During much of the turn of the last century, farmers’ row crops replaced Emiquon’s native vegetation and lakes. American Forests the Nature Conservancy of Illinois plan to begin restoration of this site planting 160,000 quality bottomland hardwoods in 2006 and reintroduce over ten different hardwood species once found on the Illinois River floodplain including: green ash, white ash, pin oak, northern pecan, black walnut, sycamore, river birch and swamp white oak.
For more information, click here and read the article from ForestBytes.
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