{"id":694,"date":"2022-04-26T08:35:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T08:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/217.144.56.49\/~buildext\/?p=694"},"modified":"2023-01-18T07:07:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T07:07:26","slug":"130-trees-planted-ybl-professional-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/130-trees-planted-ybl-professional-day\/","title":{"rendered":"130 trees were planted after the YBL professional day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>We exhibited at YBL&#8217;s Professional Day on 14 April, but instead of investing in plastic pens, branded mugs, and fridge magnets that don&#8217;t last two minutes, we used the budget to plant a tree in the MyForest community forest on behalf of the students.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n<p>Our initiative has been a huge success, and Hungary will soon have 130 trees that we can thank the new generation for.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"540\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 960 \/ 540;\" width=\"960\" controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/buildext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/BuildEXT-stand-YBL-szakmai-nap-2022.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption>We had not prepared any promotional material for the YBL Trade Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>And why is this important?<\/p>\n\n<p>Because one of the most important causes of global warming is the fact that<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"cover-mobile-p has-white-color has-black-background-color has-text-color has-background has-large-font-size\"><strong>two-thirds of the world\u2019s forests have disappeared <br\/>since the beginning of industrial civilization.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>And the remaining one-third of forests are no longer able to absorb the CO2 emitted by human activity, leading to global warming and the eventual destruction of human civilization (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myforest.hu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">source<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n<p>Another major cause of climate problems is the construction industry, which contributes 38% of CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"593\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/buildext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Global-share-of-buildings-and-construction-final-emissions-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buildext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Global-share-of-buildings-and-construction-final-emissions-2019.jpg 593w, https:\/\/buildext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Global-share-of-buildings-and-construction-final-emissions-2019-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><figcaption>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/globalabc.org\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-files\/2020%20Buildings%20GSR_FULL%20REPORT.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Globalabc.org<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<p>One such organization is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myforest.hu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MyForest<\/a>, which has set a goal of doubling the number of forests on the ground; roughly 200 trees per person on the planet would need to be planted to double the size of current forests and restore at least two-thirds of the forests that existed in the 1700s-1800s.<\/p>\n\n<p>This can be greatly reduced through the efficiency of digitization tools (we talk about this in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portfolio.hu\/ingatlan\/20220412\/igy-lehet-kevesebb-penzbol-es-villamgyorsan-megepiteni-barmilyen-epuletet-536297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a> with Portfolio.hu), but we also regularly support other organizations working towards similar goals.<\/p>\n\n<p>So there is work to be done, as a company, we are also looking at <a href=\"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/sustainability\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sustainability<\/a>, not producing unnecessary marketing material, not printing, and trying to restore the ecological balance wherever possible &#8211; so do the same for you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We exhibited at YBL&#8217;s Professional Day on 14 April, but instead of investing in plastic pens, branded mugs, and fridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,371],"tags":[173,36,39,38,37,40],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-publicity","tag-buildext-csr-en","tag-co2-emission","tag-environment-protection","tag-sustainability","tag-tree-planting","tag-ybl-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8697,"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions\/8697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buildext.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}