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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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NATIONAL NEWS
Economic stimulus doesn't have to mean
ecological disaster
By Andy Lipkis
(excerpt from a LA Times)
(Los Angeles, CA)- Jump-starting old construction projects to create
jobs would harm more than help us. We need to focus on 'smart green'
infrastructure. [There are] some good reasons... to support
President-elect Barack Obama's plan to spend hundreds of billions of
dollars on infrastructure projects. We need the employment, and our
cities needs rebuilding. It's true that the "New New Deal" offers a
fantastic opportunity to rebuild for the future, but this opportunity
also contains real dangers. If we don't make careful choices about what
kind of infrastructure we build, we will be hardening in concrete the
ecological mistakes of our past.
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LOCAL STORY
Neighborly woods
(Covington, GA)- In the fall of
2008, Keep Covington/Newton Beautiful's business
committee picked the Alliance for Community Trees' NeighborWoods
program as its "passion project" or project they wanted to see
implemented within the year. With financial support from the Home Depot
Foundation, the NeighborWoods program provides grants and training to
organizations and individuals dedicated to restoring urban canopy.
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