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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
Volunteer Time Worth More Than $20/Hour
(Washington,
DC)- The average value of donated time by volunteers was $20.25 per
hour in 2008, according to a new study by Independent Sector. The study
based its data on average hourly earnings for all hourly-wage, nonfarm
workers gathered by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, increasing
figures by 12 percent to estimate for fringe benefits.
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LOCAL STORY
Cisterns save
rainwater, quench environmental thirst
(Los Angeles, CA)- Exploding
populations from Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas, to suburban
Los Angeles have turned the issue of water supply from problem to
crisis. "There is so much demand for water, it already exceeds
supply," says Andy Lipkis, President of TreePeople. Based in Los
Angeles, the organization's primary purpose has been to
educate communities on the planting and care of trees and to work with
government agencies on issue No. 1 in the West: water.
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