The Webcast Series is a bimonthly webcast held at the lunch hour. The goal is to provide informal training opportunities for local urban and community forestry practitioners. The trainings highlight successful programs and practices that you may want to adopt in your community.

ACT member organizations engage thousands of volunteers nationwide to transform cities for the better. Together, members of Alliance for Community Trees have planted 14.9 million trees in cities, with help from 4.3 million volunteers. We're proud of our collective achievements, but there is much more work to be done to make our cities healthy, sustainable, and successful.

Bette Midler's New York City community gardening, tree planting, and environmental education nonprofit seeks candidate to lead organization into its next 15 years. New York Restoration Project (NYRP), an environmental, nonprofit organization that is co-leading the MillionTreesNYC initiative with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and the New York City Parks Department has launched a national search for a new executive director. The new director will play a significant role in advocating for the greening and programming of New York City community gardens, parks and open space.

The U.S. EPA created the Pollution Prevention (P2) Grant Program (formerly Pollution Prevention Incentives for States) under the authority of the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990. The grant program provides matching funds to State and Tribal programs to support P2 activities across all environmental media and to develop State-based programs. EPA believes these environmental programs have the best opportunity to promote P2 because States have closer, more direct contact with industry and are more aware of local needs.

Portland, OR (March 6, 2010)- I was visited by a happy, talkative group called Friends of Trees on Saturday morning. They poured out of three trucks, one of which had our two trees and several others slated for plantings elsewhere. Shovels, buckets, trees and people made a beeline for my backyard and they showed us the best places to plant the three-year-old trees, they're are hardly bigger than saplings, yet old enough to be sturdy on their own. It was fun and educational, both.

Lompoc, CA (March 6, 2010)- About twice a year, the members of the Lompoc Beautification and Appearance Commission take their monthly meeting on the road. "It's just so much easier to get out and see what we're talking about," said city Parks and Urban Forestry Manager Cindy McCall after she finished driving a van full of commission members around the city Friday.

Washington, DC (March 5, 2010)- OK, so maybe it isn't exactly in the curriculum... but DC Public Schools is continuing to make a difference in the community by planting numerous trees throughout the city. Students, faculty, and staff in our nation's capital have the opportunity to partner with an organization called Casey Trees in an effort to take some time out of the school day to plant trees around many of the district's schools.

Greenville, S.C. (March 4, 2010)- It's appropriate that Joelle Teachey's name contains the word "teach." That's a big part of her mission as executive director of TreesGreenville, the non-profit organization that since its founding in 2005 has planted more than 1,500 trees in Greenville.

Washington, DC (March 2, 2009)- Yesterday, Sen. Bob Casey introduced the companion bill to Rep. Allyson Schwartz's Green Communities Act (H.R. 2222). As cities across the United States are looking for new effective, low cost strategies that will grow their economies, the implementation of green infrastructure is one of the most effective ways to improve quality of life, attract new business, and improve the general environment.