Friday, March 11, 2022 - "M'illumino di meno 2022"
The Municipality of Bologna, with the European project LIFE Clivut and in collaboration with Legambiente arboretum, distributed 400 free plants to citizens, associations and apartment buildings.

Friday, March 11, 2022, on the occasion of the eighteenth edition of the radio campaign of Rai Radio2 "M'illumino di meno", which this year has provided awareness initiatives to plant more trees, the team of LIFE Clivut has delivered free 400 trees to citizens, associations and condominiums who have applied for adoption: an original action that lasts over time and is good for the planet.

The large number of requests confirms that the historical moment we are living makes citizenship more active in wanting to contribute to the environment and climate change, even by planting trees.

Applicants can plant trees in exclusively private areas, suitable for planting, in the city of Bologna and within the metropolitan area of the city of Bologna.

Species of trees being distributed
The trees that were distributed are plants that best respond to the ordierna challenge of climate change.

Fifty plants of each species were distributed, including:

Field maple (Acer campestre)
Mountain maple (Acer pseudoplatanus)
Bagolaro (Celtis australis)
White hornbeam (Carpinus betulus)
English Oak (Quercus robur)
Southern Ash (Fraxinus angustifolia)
Plane Tree (Platanus x acerifolia)
Japanese Zelkova (Zelkova serrata)

The Clivut LIFE project team has prepared a brochure with the characteristics of the plant and a quick guide of how to manage it, with the techniques of planting and preparation of the hole for planting.

Each plant is accompanied by an information label, made of ecological paper, which contains this information: family of belonging, type of stem, type of bark, type of declaration, size of the plant when adult, photograph of the Habitus, description of the leaves, description of the fruits and description of the environment suitable for the plant.