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Become a Friend of ACT
Do you like clean air, green streets, and healthy neighborhoods? We do!
ACT member organizations engage thousands of volunteers nationwide to transform cities for the better. Together, members of Alliance for Community Trees have planted 7.8 million trees in cities, with help from 450,000 volunteers. We're proud of our collective achievements, but there is much more work to be done to make our cities healthy, sustainable, and successful.
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Virginia Fights Climate Change With Trees
By Christian Trejbal
Roanoke, VA (December 14, 2008)- Last week, I urged readers to use live holiday trees suitable for planting as an environmentally friendly alternative to chopping down conifers. Individual effort, even collectively, can only go so far.
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Economic stimulus doesn't have to mean ecological disaster
By Andy Lipkis
Los Angeles, CA (December 11, 2008)- Jump-starting old construction projects to create jobs would harm more than help us. We need to focus on 'smart green' infrastructure. In his Nov. 24 Op-Ed article, "Depression-era projects, again," Bill Boyarsky outlines some good reasons for Los Angeles residents to support President-elect Barack Obama's plan to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on infrastructure projects. We need the employment, and our city needs rebuilding. It's true that the "New New Deal" offers a fantastic opportunity to rebuild for the future, but this opportunity also contains real dangers. If we don't make careful choices about what kind of infrastructure we build, we will be hardening in concrete the ecological mistakes of our past.
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Cownie supports boost in 'green' aid
By Jason Pulliam
Des Moines, IA (December 11, 2008)- Des Moines Mayor Frank Cownie said the federal government needs to increase by $2 billion annually its assistance to help local governments pay for environmental initiatives. Cownie made the pitch Wednesday to about 20 residents at the new shelter at Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 1640 Garfield Ave. The outline of climate change and environmental initiatives endorsed by Cownie comes from Climate Communities and ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability. The two organizations are pushing for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
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Report Rates Corporations on Climate Change Efforts
New York, NY (December 11, 2008)- The investor coalition group Ceres released a report called Corporate Governance and Climate Change: Consumer and Technology Companies, which evaluated how well tech, consumer products, leisure, and drug companies implemented policies to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Among the highly-ranked companies were Tesco PLC, Nike, Wal-Mart, Dell, Intel, and Johnson & Johnson.
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Donate to Our Nation's Urban Forests and the Tree Stewards Who Care for Them
College Park, MD (December 11, 2008)- Thanks for a great year Of making cities Cleaner, Greener, and Healthier! As this exciting year draws to a close, the Alliance for Community Trees would like to thank you for your support. Together, through ACT's National NeighborWoods Program and other initiatives, we have achieved a great many important milestones in just three years:
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Thousands of trees help make Tampa Super Bowl a 'green' event
Tampa Bay, FL (December 10, 2008)- More than one thousand trees will take root in Tampa Bay on Thursday as part of the National Football League's greening of Super Bowl XLIII. Dozens of volunteers and area youngsters will join staff from the NFL Environmental Program to plant trees at two different sites in the Bay area.
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Andy Lipkis Named Ashoka Fellow
Los Angeles, CA (December 9, 2008)- Today, Andy Lipkis, President of TreePeople (an ACT member), was inducted as a North American Ashoka Fellow. In addition to the great work that Andy and TreePeople do, this is a big deal because it is the first time that Ashoka has selected anyone involved in urban forestry.
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Carbon Tree Calculator Quantifies Carbon Sequestration of Urban Trees
Davis, CA (December 9, 2008)- U.S. Forest Service scientists at the Center for Urban Forest Research have launched their online software that can show users how much carbon dioxide an urban tree in California has sequestered in its lifetime and the past year. The Tree Carbon Calculator is free and programmed in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that provides carbon-related information for a single tree in one of six California climate zones. It is the only tool approved by the California Climate Action Registry's Urban Forest Project Reporting Protocol for quantifying carbon dioxide sequestration from tree planting projects.
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Class Helps NYC Plant One Million New Trees
By Joshua E. Brown
New York, NY (December 4, 2008)- An urban forest might sound as far-fetched as a rural subway. But New York City already has more than five million trees, and these create a canopy that shades 24 percent of the city according to a 2006 study by the US Forest Service and UVM's Spatial Analysis Laboratory. While not a moose-filled wilderness, New York's urban forest exists now: cooling city streets, soaking up rainfall and carbon, reducing pollution that triggers asthma, and making twiggy homes for New Yorkers' beloved birds.
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Korean Air Partners With Los Angeles to Plant and Care for Urban Trees
Los Angeles, CA (December 4, 2008)- Korean Air today announced that it is donating $160,000 to the Million Trees Los Angeles (MTLA) initiative developed by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to create and sustain urban forestry. Korean Air made this donation as part of its international commitment to reforestation and tree preservation throughout the world. The Korean Air partnership in Los Angeles will help plant, water and care for urban trees throughout the City.
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County is investing in trees
By Cathy Zollo, page BN1
Sarasota, FL (December 1, 2008)- Over the next two years, the county will spend $1.2 million on trees along county roads, and it is not just to make Sarasota pretty. Demetra McBride, the county's urban forestry program manager, said the effort is more of an investment for the county than a mere sprucing up of its roadways. "Inside the county, we know that we do it for specific reasons and to exploit a number of benefits that trees are able to provide," she said. Once mature, trees cost $30 to $40 each to maintain each year in return for the millions of dollars in services they collectively provide, studies show.
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Green Infrastructure CoP Portal
Washington, DC (December 1, 2008)- The Green Infrastructure Community of Practice (CoP) Portal is now live. It is an open and active community where you can learn from and contribute to the collective understanding of all things green-infrastructure-related. See where green infrastructure is happening across the U.S., connect with other organizations working on green infrastructure projects, learn what resources are available to you as a green infrastructure practitioner, and find out about green infrastructure events taking place across the country.
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Weeping for willow's demise
By Danielle Dreilinger
Boston, MA (November 30, 2008)- Zen monks have long asked: If a tree falls in a forest and no one sees it, does it make a sound? In Somerville's urban forest, the answer is clear. It seems as if no tree falls without neighbors seeing- and raising a ruckus.
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Faith Leaders Urge Climate Curbs
Uppsala, Sweden (November 29, 2008)- Interfaith leaders from seven religious delegations concluded a two-day summit on climate change in Uppsala, Sweden by signing a declaration urging "governments and international organizations to prepare and agree upon a comprehensive climate strategy for the Copenhagen Agreement." The declaration was to be presented on behalf of Christian, Buddhist, Daoist, Sikh, Muslim, Jewish, and Native American leaders at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Poznan, Poland that began on December 1.
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Rochester officials consider tree-planting ordinance
By Jeffrey Pieters
Rochester, MN (November 28, 2008)- Should Rochester developers be required to pay to plant street-side trees in new neighborhoods? It's the question at the heart of talks- ongoing for two years- whether to enact an ordinance including that requirement. Owatonna and Kasson are two nearby cities that have similar ordinances.
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