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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 7.8 million trees with help from
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| ABOUT WEBCASTS |
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Brown Bag Lunch 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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SESSION DESCRIPTION
A Sensible
Partnership
The utility sector is the largest single source
of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. today, where heating and
cooling homes accounts for nearly 60 of residential electricity usage.
Needless to say, the utility sector is a major focus of climate change
and energy security discussions. However, if you think that markets,
incentives, prizes, and entrepreneurs are the answer to energy
efficiency, then the partnership between tree organizations and utility
companies makes sense. Trees clean ozone and CO2 from the air while
providing shade and ultimately cutting energy usage by up to 30%. Trees
also cool cities by 10-20 degrees, helping cities to meet air quality
standards for federal highway dollars..
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SESSION TOPICS
Brown Bag attendees will learn:
* How the programs got started.
* What partnerships were/are key.
* Design and maintenance.
* Cost and coverage.
* Financial sustainability.
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RESIDENTIAL TREE PLANTINGS
Joan
Lionetti, Executive Director, Trees for Tucson (Tucson, AZ)
Since 1993, Trees for Tucson has planted 55,000
trees through their partnership with Tucson Electric Power. Through
this $90,000 annual program, Tucson metropolitan area residents can
receive up to two trees (five and fifteen gallon), delivered directly
to their homes, for $6.00 each, if they agree to plant them on the
east, west, or south side of their home. As a result of this
partnership, Trees for Tucson went on to host the first Cool
Communities Conference in 1998, talking about parking lots and rooftops.
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FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
Patty Petersen, Field
Coordinator, Trees Forever (Marion, IA)
In 1991, Iowa established a law that energy
companies had to dedicate a certain percentage of their conservation
dollars to trees. While some companies do tree giveaways, Trees Forever
established a relationship with Alliant Energy and Aquila that
continues today. The programs are called We Dig Your District and
Branching Out. Through this program, the energy companies support Trees
Forever with funds that are passed-through in increments of $500-10,000
to municipal committees (nonprofit or governmental) to plant trees.
Trees Forever provides the expertise and support.
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