BBC Breathing Places: 'Tree O Clock' - Growing something groundbreaking

On December 5th 2009, BBC Breathing Place’s Tree O’Clock wanted to get everyone in the UK to plant as many trees as possible in just one hour.

BBC Breathing Places: ‘Tree O Clock’ - Growing something groundbreaking

Environment

Elmwood

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Tree O'Clock was created by BBC Breathing Places to get people planting trees. But this was no ordinary environmental campaign. The BBC wanted to appeal to everyone in the UK to plant as many trees as physically possible in just one hour on December 5th 2009. As well as boosting the environment by making the UK a leafier, lovelier place, the aim was to break up to two Guinness World Records™ for the ‘greatest number of trees planted within one hour'.

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