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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 |
The
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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NeighborWoods Month 101
September
11, 2008
1:00-
2:00pm EDT
National NeighborWoods Month is a united
campaign to celebrate trees and raise awareness for the value of urban
forests. Last year, NeighborWoods Month staged
235 events in 62 cities, engaging over 15,000 volunteers in hands-on
service to care for city forests. Join this special webcast to learn
how NeighborWoods Month can help you unite local efforts under a
national banner to gain greater attention and leverage resources. Also
come hear about this year's event tools and how to use them with your
community partners to expand your city's celebration of NeighborWoods
Month in 2008.
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SESSION TOPICS
Brown Bag attendees will learn:
* How to stage an event to help your local
urban forest.
* Using the NeighborWoods Month Planning and Promotion Kit.
* Funding resources available.
* Free downloadable tools, templates, and resources.
* NeighborWoods Month website.
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DEVELOPERS ROUNDTABLE
Patrice
Sheehan, Delaware Center for Horticulture (Wilmington, DE)
The Delaware Center for Horticulture (DCH) invited ten development
companies, fifteen community development organizations, the state
forester, ACT, the store manager of the local Home Depot, and
Wilmington Mayor James M. Baker to come together for roundtable
discussions about community trees. The purpose of the event was to
rally the support of various influential stakeholders by discussing the
benefits of trees and demonstrating how to join many others who already
incorporate trees into construction and redevelopment plans.
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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Claudia
Schenck, Tennessee Environmental Council (Nashville, TN)
Providence Park is a model affordable housing
community in southeastern Nashville-Davidson County developed by
Nashville Area Habitat for Humanity (NAHFH). Yet, despite its "green"
status, little consideration was given to the landscaping,
especially on homeowners' properties, and the consequences of having
few trees including noise from the nearby highway, excessive stormwater
runoff, poor energy efficiency due to lack of shade and windbreaks, and
increased health risks due to poor air quality.
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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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