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IN THE NEWS
Salt Lake to Plant 1 Million Trees by 2017
Salt Lake City (September 11, 2007)- Salt Lake County Mayor, Peter Corroon, announced plans last week to plant a million trees in the Salt Lake Valley during the next decade- an ambitious aim that will take about 274 tree-plantings per day- seven days a week, 365 days a year.

SUCCESS STORY
Working with Major League Baseball's All Star Games
(Houston, TX)- Trees for Houston, with support from state sales tax revenue, helped to coordinate the planting of more than 4,000 trees in downtown Houston when the 2004 Major League Baseball All Star Game was held there.

RESEARCH
Urban Stormwater Retrofit Practices
Ellicott City, MD (August 2007)- Over the last four years, the Center for Watershed Protection produced a series of 11 manuals that describe the techniques to restore small urban watersheds. The entire series of manuals were written to organize the enormous amount of information needed to restore small urban watersheds. Manual 3: Urban Stormwater Retrofit Practices has now been released.

PUBLIC POLICY
Forest Service Chief Urges Using Forests to Power Cars and Fight Global Warming
Washington, DC (September 8, 2007)- U.S. Forest Service Chief, Abigail Kimbell, has proposed using national forests to fight global warming in two ways: using its wood as a biofuel and planting more trees to absorb CO2.

EVENTS
Getting Into Greenroofs- September 20
National Webcast hosted by ACT
Greenroofing offers an attractive alternative to the barren deserts 
of tar, gravel and asphalt usually seen from urban windows. Greenroofs can capture and evaporate up to 100 percent of rainwater in their space, making them ideal for urban settings in which high-density development offers few opportunities for rainwater to percolate into the soil during storms.

FUNDING
Funding to start a nonprofit organization- Deadline: Rolling
The Draper Richards Foundation will award four fellowships providing funding of $100,000 annually for three years to entrepreneurs starting new nonprofit organizations in the United States.