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	Become a Friend of ACT 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 7.8 million trees in cities, with help from 450,000 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. Continue reading Become a Friend of ACT » Register for NeighborWoods Month 2008 October 1-31, 2008 National National NeighborWoods Month is a united campaign to celebrate trees and raise awareness for the value of urban forests. During October, ACT member groups across the U.S. will engage thousands of volunteers in stewardship events and educational programs, communicating a shared message that trees are essential to the health and livability of communities. Continue reading Register for NeighborWoods Month 2008 » NeighborWoods Month Photo Contest 2008 Win $500! Deadline: October 31, 2008 College Park, MD (July 1, 2008)- Grab your camera and document urban forestry in action during NeighborWoods Month. Send us your most dramatic, artistic, and heartfelt photographs that capture the spirit of volunteerism through NeighborWoods. If we pick your image, you will win $500. In addition, we will post your winning photo on our website and on future NeighborWoods promotional literature. Photos can be landscape or profile, action or portrait, individual or group, etc. Before submitting, please be sure to read the contest rules. Continue reading NeighborWoods Month Photo Contest 2008 » Tree Board Suggests New Policy for Schools Clarksville, TN (June 25, 2008)- Tree Board member Tracy Jackson pitched a proposal to the Clarksville-Montgomery County School Board at its Tuesday night meeting that would align its tree replacement policy with Clarksville's City Code. City Code Chapter 17 Section 1-1708 states whenever the city removes a tree on public property, the city should replace the tree's canopy area with trees that cover the same area. Continue reading Tree Board Suggests New Policy for Schools » In Brazil, Marrying Couples and Divorcees Could be Forced To Plant Trees By Paula Alvarado Sao Paolo, Brazil (June 24, 2008)- A project by Brazilian Deputy Carlos Humberto Mannato could establish that all people who want to get married or divorced, buy a new car, or build a house would have to plant a certain amount of trees to offset their activity. Continue reading In Brazil, Marrying Couples and Divorcees Could be Forced To Plant Trees » Charitable Giving Topped $306 Billion in 2007 Washington, DC (June 23, 2008)- U.S. charitable giving reached an estimated $306.4 billion in 2007, exceeding $300 billion for the first time, a new report from the Giving USA Foundation finds. According to Giving USA 2008, which is researched and written by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, every type of public charity saw gains in donations received during 2007, while giving to foundations decreased. The report attributes the increase in giving to charity largely to the strong stock market performance in the first half of the year, overall growth in the economy as measured by gross domestic product, and increases in corporate and personal income as reported at the end of the year. Continue reading Charitable Giving Topped $306 Billion in 2007 » Workers cut down tree in hopes of halting spread By Robert Mitchum Chicago, IL (June 20, 2008)- With the buzz of a chainsaw and a thick, short crack, the first Chicago victim of the emerald ash borer fell a few minutes after noon Thursday. The fallen green ash tree, which stood along a South Side stretch of State Street for almost 40 years, was in a grove where city, state and federal officials last week made the first discovery of the invasive Asian beetle within the city limits. Continue reading Workers cut down tree in hopes of halting spread » Residents say traffic calmers are good idea on the face, but ugly from the neck down Durham, NC (June 14, 2008)- The odd-shaped structures on the Anderson Street shoulders were not meant to be roadside attractions. The "neck downs," as the dirt-filled concrete collars are called, were installed last year to slow swift-moving traffic. But residents along the two-lane road rimming the eastern edge of Duke University's West Campus don't understand why they have to be so blooming ugly. Continue reading Residents say traffic calmers are good idea on the face, but ugly from the neck down » $1 Million Southern California Wildfire Grant Awarded to TreePeople by Boeing Los Angeles, CA (June 5, 2008)- TreePeople, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit, today announced that it has received a $1 million grant from The Boeing Company [NYSE:BA] to launch a comprehensive California Wildfire Restoration Initiative in response to the numerous wildfires that have ravaged Southern California in recent years. Continue reading $1 Million Southern California Wildfire Grant Awarded to TreePeople by Boeing » A walk through the treetops London, England (June 4, 2008)- London's Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) at Kew recently opened a new attraction which gives visitors the chance to walk among the treetops and examine tree canopies from a new perspective. Rising to a height of 18 meters and stretching across 200 meters, visitors can walk between 50 of Kew's mature broad-leafed trees. Continue reading A walk through the treetops » National park tree cutter must pay $100,000 By Scott Sonner Reno, NV (June 4, 2008)- A federal judge agreed Wednesday to spare a woman prison time after she admitted hiring a company to illegally chop down trees on national forest land at Lake Tahoe. Instead, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Sandoval accepted a plea agreement that ordered Patricia Vincent, 57, of Incline Village to do 80 hours of community service and pay $100,000 restitution, most of it to a nonprofit forestry organization. Continue reading National park tree cutter must pay $100,000 » David Forsell Receives 2008 Cultural Vision Award Indianapolis, IN (June 4, 2008)- David E. Forsell, president of Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, is among ten recipients of a 2008 NUVO Cultural Vision Award. Established ten years ago, the program recognizes individuals and organizations in Indianapolis doing innovative work and to celebrate the spirit of community. "The NUVO Cultural Vision Awards are about shining a light on the talented people and creative enterprises," write the weekly newspaper's editors. Continue reading David Forsell Receives 2008 Cultural Vision Award » Tree Proud By Randy Kennedy New York, NY (June 1, 2008)- LIKE most good Americans, I grew up thinking that figs- or more accurately "fig," as a non-discrete substance- was something made by man specifically to fill a soft rectangular cookie, probably manufactured in the same big Midwestern dessert mill that produced things like nougat and Twinkie filling and whatever sturdy white confection was used to make candy cigarettes. Continue reading Tree Proud » Urban Areas on West Coast Produce Least Emissions Per Capita By Felicity Barringer Los Angeles, CA (May 29, 2008)- The West Coast's metropolitan areas had among the lowest carbon emissions per capita in the country in 2005, according to a new ranking of 100 urban areas. The region's mild climates, hydropower, and aggressive energy-reduction policies give its residents smaller carbon footprints, on average, than those of their counterparts in the East and Midwest. Continue reading Urban Areas on West Coast Produce Least Emissions Per Capita » What Is a Green Collar Job, Exactly? By Bryan Walsh Washington, DC (May 26, 2008)- What do presidential candidates John McCain, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton have in common- aside from the obvious? They all love green-collar jobs. Obama promises to spend $150 billion over 10 years to create 5 million new green-collar jobs. Clinton references the term repeatedly on the trail, and says her energy plan will create millions of new green-collar jobs as well. McCain is less willing to cite numbers, but he too assures campaign audiences that action to decarbonize America's economy will produce "thousands, millions of new jobs in America." Continue reading What Is a Green Collar Job, Exactly? »