• Congressional Briefing

The Alliance for Community Trees (ACT), in cooperation with Congressman Blumenauer’s office, invite you to the briefing, Achieving SmartGrowth Policies with Green Infrastructure.  Learn how trees and green infrastructure may be used to improve the environment where 80% of Americans live: our cities, towns, and villages.  Even more so now as a recession encourages innovative thinking, urban forests offers cross-bottom-line solutions that impact neighborhood stabilization, highway safety, energy efficiency, public health, and investments in small business.

This briefing will describe what makes green infrastructure essential when planning and implementing traditional infrastructure projects, and how early and collaborative designs that include green infrastructure are often safer, more efficient, and cheaper.

Invited speakers for this event include:

* Moderator
Jared Liu, Director of Programs, Alliance for Community Trees

* Enhancing State and Federal Highways
Anne Canby, President, Surface Transportation Policy Partnership

* Determinants of Neighborhood Transformation
Kevin Gillen, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business

* Neighborhood Parks and Public Health
Deborah Cohen, Senior Natural Scientist, RAND Corporation

* Energy Conservation through Trees
Zack Hill, Manager of Federal Government Affairs, Alliant Energy


This briefing is free and open to the public.  No RSVP required.

For more information, contact Jared Liu at jared@actrees.org or (301) 277-0041.