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Alliance for Community
Trees is dedicated to improving the environment where 80% of Americans
live: our cities, towns, and villages. Together, ACT's national network
of members have planted and cared for 14.9 million trees with help from
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| ABOUT WEBCASTS |
The
Third Thursday Webcast Series is a monthly
webcast held at the lunch hour. The goal is to create informal
trainings for local urban and community forestry
organizations.
The trainings leverage local successes by amplifying to a larger
audience the model organizations' methods, materials, and
approaches.
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'Planning' Your Way to the Best Urban Forest
August
20, 2009
1:00-
2:00pm EST
The physical framework of a community is called
its infrastructure, and can be divided into two types: green and gray.
Gray infrastructure refers to areas of buildings, roads, utilities, and
parking lots; green infrastructure includes areas covered with trees,
shrubs, and grass. A community can accurately measure its
green infrastructure and calculate the
public utility functions these areas perform.
For local public policymakers making decisions affecting
urbanization, the problem is not solely about planting more trees, but
rather about balancing gray and
green infrastructure.
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SESSION TOPICS
Webcast attendees will learn:
* Why tree canopy in many U.S. metropolitan
areas is declining
* Rationale of adopting a green infrastructure planning approach
* Presenting urban forestry to professional and lay public
officials
* Strengthen relationships among planners, foresters, and others
* Exchanging knowledge between urban professional fields
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PLANNERS PERSPECTIVE
Jim
Schwab, American Planning Association (Chicago, IL)
The American Planning Association has released a state-of-the-art best
practices manual about how urban and community forestry can best be
integrated into long-range and current municipal planning activities in
the U.S. This Planning Advisory Service report includes forestry case
studies and a literature review.
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PLANNING CASE STUDIES
Cheryl Kollin, Consultant (Washington, D.C.)
Communities can
offset the ecological
impact of land development by utilizing the urban forest's natural
capacity to mitigate environmental impacts. While both gray and green
infrastructure are important in a city, communities that foster green
infrastructure wherever possible are more livable, produce fewer
pollutants, and are more cost-effective to operate.
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NEIGHBORWOODS NETWORK EXCHANGE
Extended Learning- On the Ground
There is so much more that can be learned in a week than in an hour,
and on the ground as opposed to on a webcast. So here is your chance!
Join the webcast to learn more about the NeighborWoods
Network Exchange and how you can spend a week shadowing another ACT
member.
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