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Do you like clean air, green streets, and healthy neighborhoods? We do!
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.
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ACT Announces Volunteer of the Year Winner
College Park, MD (March 15, 2010)- In collaboration with ServiceNation, the Alliance for Community Trees (ACT) is pleased to announce this year's national Volunteer of the Year, Bill Pardue, who volunteers with Trees Atlanta.
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YARDS Youth Landscape Training Program
Tucson, AZ (March 8, 2010)- Tucson Clean & Beautiful and Pima County Juvenile Court, Community Service Unit are proud to announce that certificates of achievement will be presented to the first graduating class of the YARDS (Youth Achieving Resource Development Skills) youth landscape training program for juveniles at risk. Participating youth are recommended for selection by their probation officers.
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Portland gets new trees from Friends of Trees
By Sandy McCollum
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.
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Commissioners Tour Trees
By Glenn Wallace
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.
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DC Public Schools Adds a Little Greenery to the Curriculum
By Eric Waldstein
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.
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KIB Lands Grant For 2012 Super Bowl Tree Project
Indianapolis, Ind. (March 4, 2010)- Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc. announced today that it will receive a $10,000 grant from Alliance for Community Trees and The Home Depot Foundation in support of its "2012 by 2012" tree planting initiative. For this program, Keep Indianapolis Beautiful has partnered with the Indianapolis 2012 Super Bowl Host Committee and the Near Eastside Legacy Project to achieve the goal of planting 2012 trees on the Near Eastside of Indianapolis by the 2012 Super Bowl.
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TreesGreenville's impact just keeps growing
By Ann Green
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.
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Alliance for Community Trees Announces $100,000 National Grant Program Recipients
College Park, Md. (March 1, 2010)- The Alliance for Community Trees, in partnership with The Home Depot(r) Foundation, is pleased to announce the recipients of over $100,000 in grants awarded by the National NeighborWoods Program(tm). NeighborWoods is a nationwide initiative that engages the public in hands-on action to produce tangible improvements to community health through tree planting and stewardship. Eleven organizations were honored in the national competition, which promotes strategic partnerships between greening organizations and affordable housing providers. Grant funds will support tree planting to enhance the health and livability of affordable homes.
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Big Town, Going Green: Trees bring green benefits to the city
By Holly Reich
New York, NY (February 24, 2010)- One million trees for New York City by 2017! A tall order? Not when you consider the source. MillionTreesNYC, a citywide, public-private program has green as its goal with plans to plant and care for one million new trees across the city's five boroughs within the next decade. As a result, New York City's urban forest- made up of street trees, park trees, and trees on public, private and commercial land- will increase by 20 percent.
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Council should heed nonprofits' idea
Tucson, AZ (February 21, 2010)- A group of 25 nonprofit agencies has put forward a plan that would require the Tucson City Council to triage community needs and make logical and effective decisions about how to spend limited dollars for human services. The plan is doable and it makes good business sense. The City Council should adopt it in quick order.
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Shoppers get free trees at weekend farmer's market
By Lauren Bowar
Montgomery, AL (February 21, 2010)- What looked like boxes of sticks at the Montgomery Tree Committee's booth at the curb market on Madison Avenue on Saturday were actually various types of oak, crape myrtle, zelkova and other tree varieties to be given away. In celebration of Arbor Day, Feb. 24, the Montgomery Tree Committee, the Alabama Forestry Commission, the Montgomery Clean City Commission and the city of Montgomery are distributing free trees throughout the city.
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Business consortium wants blooming boulevards downtown
By Meelah Maynard
Minneapolis, MN (February 19, 2010)- Landscaping and urban planning firms look to attract shoppers, businesses. Minneapolis is known as a city with a lush urban forest that includes stately and beloved trees, like elms, maples, lindens and ash. Walking around downtown, though, it's hard to find evidence of the reasons for this verdant reputation, seeing as there is so much more gray everywhere than green. But that's going to change this spring when the Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District (DID) adds a new greening program to its current focus of making downtown cleaner and safer, said Sarah Harris, DID's chief operating officer.
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Friends of the Urban Forest to hold 1000th planting
San Francisco, CA (February 17, 2010)- One of San Francisco's best-loved nonprofit groups will achieve a big milestone this Saturday, February 20 when it leads a team of volunteers in planting trees in the Western Addition neighborhood. The event marks the 1000th time that Friends of the Urban Forest (FUF) has planted trees in San Francisco since it was founded in 1981.
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A green city plan to reduce storm water runoff
By Sandy Bauers
Philadelphia, PA (February 5, 2010)- Storm water is nasty and dirty and can cause flooding. So the sooner it gets off a property, the better. But it's about to become valuable stuff in Philadelphia. Businesses can make money by embracing it. Or face losing money if they let it go. This week, the Water Department is sending notices to 79,000 commercial customers about a new billing structure for storm water that will begin in July.
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Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities Gets Funding
Washington, DC (February 4, 2010)- An unprecedented level of collaboration is now underway at the federal level in support of sustainable urban regions. At a major address on February 4, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced that the new Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities will now manage the new $150 million Sustainable Communities Initiative and will focus on initiatives to promote livability, sustainability, and affordability for the nation's households and urban regions.
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ACT Represented on National Tree Care Standards Committee
Washington, DC (February 4, 2010)- In the fall of 2009, the American Standards Committee A300 (ASC A300), the committee that writes the A300 standards, voted to provide the General Interest Consumer/Community seat on the committee to ACT. This is the first time in the history of the standards that nonprofit tree groups have been represented on the committee. ACT is being represented by Mike Galvin from member organization, Casey Trees, in Washington, DC.
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