Tentsile Blog
#ChallengeTony: Finland Leads The world; Tentsile Experience Camp Brings Together UNESCO and National Park
The Tentsile Experience camp at Repovesi, otherwise known romantically as TEC No. 2 out of 10, promises to pack a punch when it comes to experiencing nature in its purest form and areas of historical interest. This pristine area of Finland, with its lakes, wildlife, trees and tranquillity, is just two hours from Helsinki International Airport and easy to reach from all over the world.
#GetOutAndGO: 40 Days Celebrating America's Outdoors (and Trees!)
This spring, we've teamed up with TheDyrt.com to embark on a 40-day journey with a simple mission: to celebrate outdoor spaces.
Proud Partners of Leave No Trace
We’ve always encouraged our customers to be conscious of their eco-footprint when enjoying the great outdoors. After all, our Tree Tents inspire campers to tread lightly on the earth, and help minimise the environmental impact of their adventures.
That’s why we’re very proud to announce Tentsile’s second year of partnership with Leave No Trace Centre for Outdoors Ethics. Together, we work to protect the natural environment, and share learning on how best to treat the great outdoors with the love and respect it deserves.
#EchoChamberDisruption: A Journey Across Africa In Search of Success
James Borrell is a conservation biologist with a passion for expeditions and adventure. He’s currently travelling across Southern Africa on a journey to uncover conservation success stories. With a huge fondness for forests, James and Tentsile are working together to help make the world a more optimistic place, one seedling at a time...
#BecomeOneOfTheMillion: If You Go Down To The Woods Today…
Our “Selfie In A Tree” competition on International Day of Forests was a real success, with people from all over the world sending in selfies of themselves in or at various tree locations from across the globe. Check out the wonderful and whacky photos on our Instagram by visiting this link: #BecomeOneOfTheMillion
#ChallengeTony: Time To Catch Your Breath
We are now a few months into Tony’s challenge of setting up 10 Tentsile Experience Camps (TECs) around the world, and it seems like a timely pause to recap on where we are. Things have been busy, and ideas for the future continue to look rather exciting!
#BecomeOneOfTheMillion: International Day of Forests!
So where are we three months into this campaign? Well, as one might hope, there is lots of good news! We continue to grow the three projects we support in Africa, closely working with WeForest and The Eden Projects, planting just over 50,000 trees to date. For this small team of tree-hopers, this is definitely something we are proud of!
#ChallengeTony: Costa Rica on the Horizon
2017 just seems to be getting more and more exciting! Certainly, in the world of Tony and his global challenge, things are getting off to a flying start...
#EchoChamberDisruption – Expand Your Tree Knowledge
As promised, this series - #EchoChamberDisruption - is about recommending organisations, groups and individuals for you to follow / like / share, who are doing amazing work in this field, so that you can discover more. This month we have the first 3 recommendations for you. We sincerely hope that you learn something – we certainly did!
#EchoChamberDisruption
Last year we all became aware of the “Echo Chamber” effect, when we find ourselves presented on social media only with news and posts that closely align with our existing views and beliefs - thus reinforcing them. This year, we are going to smash that Echo Chamber!!! Join us, for #EchoChamberDisruption.
#BecomeOneOfTheMillion - Who To Pick To Plant?
So it’s one thing saying we want to plant trees; it’s quite another actually doing it. Turns out, repopulating the planet with trees is not as straight forward as one initially thinks – even for people in the tree-loving business!
#ChallengeTony - Nordics. Beach. Jungle. Mountain.
So, as you will know from the launch of #ChallengeTony, we’ve challenged Tony to set up 10 Tentsile Experience Camps by the end of 2017...
