来自 DHL Supply Chain 的 70 多名志愿者、俄亥俄州立大学费舍尔商学院的学生和来自 Alum CreekTributaries (FACT) 之友的社区志愿者拿起了铁锹，以支持更健康、更环保的中心俄亥俄州。
DHL Supply Chain 向绿色哥伦布捐赠了 17,600 美元，为大哥伦布地区提供了 6,000棵树木。这些资金是通过员工筹款活动和公司匹配筹集的。志愿者们共同努力，在韦斯特维尔市公园的土地上种植了捐赠的树苗总数中的 1,000株。种植地点毗邻 DHL Supply Chain North America 目前的总部，靠近该公司计划于 2019 年 12月开业的耗资 2000万美元的新总部。今天种植的区域正在恢复中，将被允许归化为一个完全树木繁茂的洪泛区，为社区提供许多环境效益，包括碳储存和改善空气质量。
“随着今年晚些时候我们新的 Westerville 总部的开业，DHL Supply Chain已经牢牢地植根于这个社区。我们为志愿者们今天的精力和努力感到自豪，并很高兴为我们经营所在社区的更大利益贡献这些雄伟的树木并称之为家，DHLSupply Chain North 人力资源**副总裁 Tim Sprosty说美国。今天，俄亥俄州立大学的学生加入我们，推动了我们与该大学合作招募人才的承诺，并鼓励学生将物流行业作为未来的职业选择。
树木对每个城市的基础设施都至关重要。植树可以改善空气质量、节省能源成本、提高财产价值、减少水污染和降低水处理成本，并支持当地动物和社区居民的身心健康。我们很高兴有重视这个社区健康的当地合作伙伴，韦斯特维尔市公园和城市森林 Ulrey 说。今天的植树造林将继续使韦斯特维尔成为一个健康美丽的生活和工作场所。
这个大型植树活动是我们地球日志愿者周开始的完美方式，”绿色哥伦布志愿者委员会成员埃里希·海纳 (Erich Hiner)说。“由于 DHL 供应链的赞助和支持，今年俄亥俄州中部的生态系统将增加 6,000 多棵树木。”哥伦布地球日是一项由社区范围的志愿者领导的绿色和清洁俄亥俄州中部的活动，每年由绿色哥伦布组织，这是一家投资于促进可持续生活、环境教育和社区合作的当地非营利组织。
Today, ahead of Earth Day Columbus Service Week (April 13-20),more than 70 volunteers from DHL Supply Chain, students from TheOhio State University’s Fisher College of Business and communityvolunteers from Friends of Alum Creek Tributaries (FACT), picked upshovels in support of a healthier and greener central Ohio.
DHL Supply Chain presented a $17,600 donation to GreenColumbus, providing 6,000 trees for the greater Columbus area. Thefunds were raised through employee fundraising efforts and acompany match. The volunteers worked together to plant 1,000 of thetotal donated tree seedlings on Westerville city park land. Theplanting site is adjacent to DHL Supply Chain North America’scurrent headquarters and in close proximity to the company’s new$20 million headquarters scheduled to open in December 2019. Thearea planted today is being restored and will be allowed tonaturalize to a completely wooded floodplain, providing manyenvironmental benefits to the community including carbon storageand improved air quality.
“With the opening of our new Westerville headquarters laterthis year, DHL Supply Chain is firmly planted in this community. Weare proud of our volunteers for their energy and efforts today andthrilled to contribute these majestic trees for the greater good ofthe community in which we operate and call home,” stated TimSprosty, Senior Vice President of Human Resources for DHL SupplyChain North America. “Having students from The Ohio StateUniversity join us today furthers our commitment of working withthe university to recruit top talent and encourage students toconsider the logistics industry as a future career option.”
Trees are crucial to every city’s infrastructure. Plantingtrees can improve air quality, save on energy costs, improveproperty values, reduce water pollution and lower water treatmentcosts as well as support local wildlife and the mental and physicalhealth of the people living within the community. “We are gratefulto have local partners who value the health of this community,”stated Matthew Ulrey, Parks and Urban Forest Manager for the Cityof Westerville. “Today’s tree planting will continue to makeWesterville a healthy and beautiful place to live and work.
“This large tree planting event was the perfect way to kickoff our Earth Day volunteer week,” stated Erich Hiner, volunteerboard member of Green Columbus. “The sponsorship and support of DHLSupply Chain will result in the addition of over 6,000 trees to thecentral Ohio ecosystem this year.” Earth Day Columbus a,community-wide volunteer led effort to green and clean centralOhio, is organized annually by Green Columbus, a local non-profitinvested in promoting sustainable living, environmental educationand community collaboration.
In support of Earth Day Columbus community events, DHL SupplyChain employees along with local community volunteers will gatheragain on Saturday, April 20, to plant another 1,000 of the totalDHL donated trees in Nafzger Park. The remaining donated trees willbe distributed to other community volunteer projects during EarthDay Columbus volunteer service week.
DHL Supply Chain employees have a long history of volunteeringwith the City of Westerville to clean up parks and plant trees,providing nearly 2,500 volunteer hours since 2008. The DHL SupplyChain’s effort in the greater Columbus, Ohio, area is in additionto its 2019 tree planting activities in several operating areasthroughout the Americas. By April 20, 2019, DHL Supply Chain, andits associates will have donated close to $50,000 to local treeplanting organizations, providing for more than 8,000 trees in theregion. Additional events are being planned for this fall. Also in2019, as part of its goal to plant a million trees each year,Deutsche Post DHL Group donated 570,000 trees in the Americasregion through its global partnerships.