Designed to preserve and protect, each handcrafted Tom Raffield piece boasts sustainable credentials and an ethical design journey. Whether we are reducing waste in our wooden workshop, or working with likeminded partners, we do everything we can to ensure our journey is as planet friendly as possible. Our dedication to environmental responsibility extends beyond our products to the partnerships we've forged. Read on to discover news from our ecological projects, and why mindful shopping is so important this Black Friday.

Ecologi

We have hit a huge milestone in our Ecologi forest – funding over 10,000 trees to be planted globally. From Madagascar to our home base in the UK, we have proudly supported the reforestation of many regions. Here are just two tree planting projects we have helped along the way:

Mangrove planting in Marotaola, Madagascar. In recent years, vast areas of Madagascar’s original forests have been destroyed, displacing entire animal species and diminishing local people’s ability to farm and live on the land. The reforestation team are replating mangrove trees and nurturing estuaries to ensure the rare wildlife continues to thrive, and biodiversity blossoms.

Reforestation projects in the UK. The right trees planted in the right places can provide protection from our ever-more erratic weather conditions, protecting us from flooding, providing shade to keep us cool in hotter months, reducing the impact of strong winds by providing wind-breaks, and holding moisture in environments that are becoming increasingly drier due to climate change.

Through Ecologi, we have also supported the prevention of 791.97 tCO2e from being emitted through 51 verified carbon avoidance projects. 

Avoiding methane emissions from landfill in Brazil. The majority of this waste ends up in landfills, where it decomposes and releases methane gas. The main objective of the project is to prevent emissions of methane gas into the atmosphere from the landfill through the installation of new active LFG extraction, flaring and electricity generation systems.

Generating clean electricity from hydropower in India. Coal continues to be India’s primary source of electricity, and the contribution of renewables to India’s energy mix has grown only slightly in the last 20 years, from 1% to 3%. This small hydropower project is located in the lesser Himalayas, in the state of Himachal Pradesh in northern India. Water in the form of snow-melt and rain, as well as water from nearby springs, feed the catchment area. This is a run-of-river scheme, with 2 turbines placed in the river that are rotated by the flowing river water.

Cornwall Wildlife Trust

We proudly partnered with Cornwall Wildlife Trust this year, who do tireless work to protect Cornwall’s wildlife and wild places on land and sea. You can spot some of this beautiful wildlife, photographed fantastically, in their 2025 calendar. We have 20 month-view calendars to gift to our customers that shop sustainably this Black Friday.

Place an order between 29th November – 1st December 2024, you could be randomly selected to win one of these beautiful calendars.

Temperate Rainforest Appeal. Cornwall is home to some of the last remaining areas of temperate rainforest in the UK - and, with your support, CWT have a chance to restore this magical and important habitat at West Muchlarnick, near Looe. Cornwall Wildlife Trust has a unique opportunity to restore a lost habitat: a temperate rainforest which will create more space for wildlife.

WWF 2030 Circle

Our collaboration with WWF 2030 Circle forges on to support the Trillion Trees project. With the world far off track to reverse decades of damage, WWF work tirelessly to act with significant projects that will resort the natural world to it’s true, beautiful form. In 2025, the WFF 2030 Circle’s priority areas will be to create effective community management, that will benefit both wildlife and local communities.

Posted: 29.11.24
Updated: 29.11.24