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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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Heading Towards Sustainability- Part II:
Community Orchards
September
17, 2009
1:00-
2:00pm EST
Think globally, eat locally. A ready supply of
fruit is more than just healthy. Community orchards may be part of the
solution to helping reduce our footprint in several ways. For starters,
having locally grown food nearby supports the immediate economy, saves
a drive to the store, and less fossil fuel is burned. Combine a
community garden with homeowners in a low-income neighborhood and you
have a community-building, social-network-building, crime-fighting unit
on your hands. There is a need for local tree organizations not only to
operate community orchards and seed such programs, but also to help
residents find high quality trees and revitalize blighted municipal
land.
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SESSION TOPICS
Webcast attendees will learn:
* Gaining buy-in and tapping volunteers (and
trees).
* Finding space, funders, and other partners.
* On-going maintenance and educational programs.
* How fruit trees differ from street trees.
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COMMUNITY IMPACT
Ashley
Atkinson, The Greening of Detroit (Detroit, MI)
A five-year collaboration of The Greening of Detroit, Capuchin Soup
Kitchen, O.W. Holmes Elementary School, and the Detroit Agricultural
Network has developed an extraordinary public park around a centerpiece
5 acre farm and fruit orchard. This urban farm provides increased
access to food and promotes nutritional awareness among neighborhood
residents by creating a mixed-use community farm surrounded by athletic
fields and playgrounds.
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EXPERT INSTRUCTION
Karen Tillou, Home Orchard Society
(Portland, OR)
If you are a
serious orchardist or perhaps a curious hobby gardener, Home Orchard
Society provides the best source of technical, historical, and
practical information and knowledge to make fruit growing an enriching
experience. Home Orchard Society is a nonprofit educational
organization dedicated to assisting both novice and expert growers and
promoting the science, culture, and pleasure of growing fruit.
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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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