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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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The Value of Shade: Energy and Climate Impacts
October
15, 2009
1:00-
2:00pm EST
Concern about carbon emissions and associated
climate change, along with rising fuel costs, have made energy
conservation a pressing public policy issue. Increased planting of
urban shade trees has been suggested as one way of conserving energy by
reducing the demand for heating and cooling. Indeed, some utility
companies offer customers free or reduced-cost trees. However, no
studies of utility billing data had shown that trees reduce energy
consumption.
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SESSION TOPICS
Webcast attendees will learn:
* The effect of trees on carbon emissions.
* Siting trees for energy savings.
* How shade tree programs benefit utilities.
* Working with developers for energy considerations.
* Making the case to homeowners who experience virtually none of the carbon and stormwater benefits of tree planting.
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SHADE TREE CURRENT RESEARCH
Geoffrey Donovan, Research Forester, Portland Forestry Sciences Lab
New research now closes the literature gap that links energy savings and urban trees. Come hear more.
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ENERGY CONSERVATION IN ACTION
Misha Sarkowitz (SMUD) and Jacobe Caditz (Sacramento Tree Foundation)
Each
year, SMUD invest over $1 million into the Sacramento Shade program
through which the Sacramento Tree Foundation hires staff,
purchases trees, and provides other support to ensure success. In
addition, SMUD gives out 4,000 strategically placed shade trees that
will return long-term rewards and engages thousands of volunteers in
the planting and care of trees.
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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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