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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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NATIONAL NEWS
2009 ACT Summit Recordings and Resources
Available
(Washington,
DC)- Last month, the Alliance for Community Trees organized
the first annual Green Infrastructure Summit and Urban Trees Forum. The
two days of Hill meetings, discussions, and a Congressional Briefing on
SmartGrowth took place on Capitol Hill. Presentations,
recordings, and downloadable resources are now available.
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LOCAL STORY
Shade-tree
mechanics
(Sacramento, CA)- With all the talk of
climate change and energy efficiency, Sacramento leaders-
including the Sacramento Tree Foundation and Congresswoman Matsui- are
once again making headlines as their local utility partner, SMUD,
details why they spend about $1.5 million annually ($30
million to date) on their shade tree program. Now the focus of
pending federal legislation, the idea is energy
conservation through trees... an idea that has already saved $128
million in energy costs in Sacramento alone since the program began in
1990. That added shade has saved enough electricity to allow
SMUD to skip building another power plant. Ask
your Congressman to support the Energy
Conservation through Trees provision in H.R. 2454.
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