Planting trees
Our objective is to compensate in a living way for the unavoidable environmental damage caused when our conference guests travel by air and/or automobile from far away countries. The solution – one already in practice in countless places – is to plant trees for the sake of making a living contribution to the ecological footprint. Often, however, such plantings are anonymous and unmanageable. So we sought out initiatives that have arisen in connection with Anthroposophy and the Christian Community, which have an individual character and have been created by people with whom we can be in constant contact. This opened up a new outlook on the question of how to make a genuinely sustainable contribution – not only for the earth, but also for society – by planting trees. After all, nature and humankind belong together! In our search for personal initiatives, we were able to find three already existing projects, which we would like to present to you briefly: