Team Blog: AG's big day out
I grew up near Nimbin. I’m a vegetarian. I love Leonard Cohen. It follows then, that a trip out to Botany Bay to spend a day in the sunshine planting trees sends my inner hippie dancing in tie-dyed flares with glee around her Kombi.
The newest member, the AG family adopted me from my Brisbane base, where I was working as a sub-editor for a daily metro newspaper. Now, I’m gonna level with ya – although I knew of Australian Geographic, and its shops with their giant inflatable penguins, croaking frogs and telescopes, I knew nothing about the AG Society when I started.
Until I met one Kylie Piper.
You’d remember Kylie if you met her. A bubbly, blonde bombshell, she is passionate about all things Society to say the least. Her enthusiasm and boisterous laugh are infectious and she soon got me up to speed with what the AG Society was all about. I was amazed. Blown away. And, quite frankly, shocked.
Very rarely in this modern world of bottom dollars and spreadsheets do you find organisations putting back in what they get out. If it weren’t for the AG Society, hundreds of research projects, adventures, conservation efforts and community improvements would still be but a dream.
And, if it weren’t for the AG Society, I wouldn’t be able to come up with feasible ways of escaping from behind my desk and enjoying what all of us here at AG love most of all: the great outdoors.
We passed around our cyber caps and cajoled friends and family to donate to Team AG Society as part of Enviroweek. Our mission? To raise money towards buying trees to be replanted at Kurnell Peninsula (between Towra Point Nature Reserve and Botany Bay National Park), and help wangle those pesky city CO2 levels under some sort of control.
Thanks to everyone who contributed – there’ll be photos to prove we didn’t just run off with the money and buy a few rounds of frosty beer at the pub.
So, tomorrow, the SCG-end of level 20 will be quiet as we all head out to do our part for conservation and the environment. Putting back what we’re getting out and loving every, dirty minute of it. Peace, man.
Photos coming soon! Follow updates against hashtag #treeday on Twitter (via @ausgeo).