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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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SmartGrowth and Urban Forestry- Part II:
City Planning
March
19, 2009
1:00-
2:00pm EST
Smart Growth intersects with urban forestry on
many levels: energy costs, crime, livability/sustainability, and more.
Urban design is no longer isolated solely to buildings. Trees are part
of the natural infrastructure, and their beneficial effects on urban
landscapes are becoming better known. Understanding SmartGrowth trends
can help you position your projects and programs to better integrate
with building and land use trends. "Green infrastructure" is a term
that is appearing more and more frequently in land conservation and
development discussions.
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SESSION TOPICS
Webcast attendees will learn:
* What is green infrastructure, urban greening, and land banking.
* Challenges of creating attractive and healthier built environments.
* Financial sustainability and how these programs are cost effective.
* What authority and partnerships are necessary.
* Why include trees in planning..
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Strategies to Manage Underused Property
Dan Kildee, Treasurer, Genesee County, MI
Facing shrinking populations and declining investments in center
cities, Genesee County aggressively targeted empty lots and vacant
properties with innovative strategies to reclaim underused property,
redevelop it with public capital, and sell it- improved and at a
profit- to property managers and homeowners. Some of the strategies
included green infrastructure and urban greening, land banking, land
trusts, and collaborative community planning processes.
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Communicating with Planners and Engineers
Dan Staley, City Planner, Castle Rock, CO
Tree
people don't typically speak planning-ese and engineering-ese, so in
the Town of Castle Rock, the planners and engineers are approaching the
tree people and working with them on how to talk to planners and
engineers about strategies to overcome the challenges of denser
development.
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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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