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Trees make good neighbors.

Trees make good neighbors.

Greenroofs and green buildings return many benefits for residents, owners, and the larger community through energy efficiency, profitability, and, environmental health. Greenroofs are an attractive and energy-saving alternative to a conventional rooftop. They can keep buildings cooler, save energy, and extend the useful life of the roof, while adding beauty and useable space.

Trees and landscape features located within the public right-of-way and adjacent to roadways in urban environments are often perceived by transportation officials as a safety risk. However, evidence from national and local studies reveal that the inclusion of trees and other streetscape features actually reduces crashes and injuries on urban roadways.

A collaborative effort is underway to promote the benefits of using green infrastructure to protect drinking water supplies and public health, mitigate overflows from combined and separate sewers, and reduce stormwater pollution. Thank you for your interest in finding solutions to urban water quality, supply, and protection issues.

Shoppers like to stroll among the urban trees as they browse for purchases. And they're willing to spend more to do so. Also, properties along tree-lined streets rent for higher prices and with less turnover.

By helping families and individuals secure dependable, healthy, affordable housing, we increase their chances of success in all areas of their lives. Part of that equation calls on housing developers to go beyond just addressing the affordability issue to include a focus on the health and environmental impacts of housing design and construction. Housing should be built in a sustainable manner that also allows for immediate operating efficiencies to keep the housing affordable over the long-term.

The business model is one in which corporate, social, and environmental interests increasingly overlap in the provision of services. Through integration and collaboration, businesses can not only increase profits, but also satisfy customer's needs and solve environmental and social problems.

ACT members include the most innovative nonprofit tree conservation organization in the country.

Did you know that kids in tree-lined neighborhoods play outside 10% more and have lowers rates of ADD and asthma?

Ever wonder why cities are warmer than their surrounding towns? Think it might have an adverse affect on your health?... The answers are Keep reading for heat island basics. and Yes, in cities with fewer trees.

ACT members include the most innovative nonprofit tree conservation organization in the country.

In some sectors of the economy, such as urban forestry, there is a job for every trained worker. So why aren't more people talking about real green jobs (jobs that are actually about greening)? Job seekers click here... Everyone else, read on to find out about local training and how to get involved.

Many cities have lost more than a third of their forest canopy in recent decades. So in 2005, with generous support from The Home Depot Foundation, the Alliance for Community Trees launched its National NeighborWoods Program - dedicated to helping communities restore tree canopy.

Can urban greening really reduce crime by 50%? Efforts in Chicago, Jacksonville, St. Louis, and Minneapolis are proving just that. Greener communities are victim to significantly less crime.

What does the U.S. Forest Service have to do with city trees?

ACT members include the most innovative nonprofit tree conservation organization in the country.

Don't believe that energy security is linked to the environment?... Tree shaded homes use 30-50% less energy.

Chicken Little once said, "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" While that may not have been true then, it is not far off today. If climate change is not the most serious issue of your lifetime, then its consequences will be the most serious issues of your children's lifetime. Not quite doomsday material, but do we really need to prove that we're media obsessed before we act?

Say you are a musician on tour, a researcher who needs to attend a conference on the opposite coast, or you are just making your daily Beltway commute, you're probably more aware of your carbon impact these days. Since 'An Inconvenient Truth' and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many of us have become more sensitized to the serious threats of climate change. With the dramatic weather patterns that most of the country is feeling- both in the winter and summer (and shortening of spring and fall), you're probably all too aware of the amount of energy you're using to stay warm or cool, respectively. Luckily, there are several carbon curbing solutions. One is to plant a tree.