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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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Erb Family Foundation Makes 2010 Grants
Birmingham, MI (June 8, 2010)- The Erb Family Foundation has awarded nineteen grants totaling $1.23 million for environmental and arts/cultural initiatives in the metropolitan Detroit region, Crain's Detroit Business reports. Among the grants is $160,000 to Greening of Detroit for a pilot project to plant urban forests as a way to mitigate storm water runoff.
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Tree-planters sweat for shade in Jacksonville's Klutho Park
By Steve Patterson
Jacksonville, FL (June 3, 2010)- A canopy of leafy shade trees might cover Klutho Park some day. But Thursday, a sea of blue T-shirts covered the turf. Volunteers sporting the shirts fanned out across blocks of the Springfield park, digging holes and toting mulch in a drive to plant 100 new trees on a sunny, hot afternoon. People were eager to see the results.
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Creating Communities
Atlanta, GA (June 1, 2010)- The Home Depot Foundation has awarded grants to build affordable homes for working families, create children's play spaces and help cities develop sustainable communities. In April, The Home Depot Foundation's board of directors announced 10 first cycle grants for building affordable homes for working families, creating play spaces and helping cities develop sustainable communities. According to Home Depot, the grants totaled $3.7 million.
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Forestry awards recognize Oregonians committed to community tree care
Salem, OR (May 28, 2010)- Ambitious tree planting efforts and innovative approaches to community development are among the success stories that will be recognized at this year's Urban and Community Forestry conference. Now in their 17th year, the awards, jointly hosted by Oregon Community Trees (OCT) and the Oregon Department of Forestry, recognize the accomplishments of individuals, groups and businesses who go the extra mile to enhance and maintain healthy community forests.
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Environmental Indicators: Trees
By K. Gray, M. Naud, A. Marino
The Ann Arbor Chronicle
Ann Arbor, MI (May 28, 2010)- This is the fourth in a series of Chronicle pieces on the environmental indicators used by the city of Ann Arbor in its State of Our Environment Report. The report is developed by the city's Environmental Commission and designed as a citizen's reference tool on environmental issues and as an atlas of the management strategies underway that are intended to conserve and protect our environment. The report is organized around 10 Environmental Goals developed by the Environmental Commission and adopted by city council in 2007.
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Denver tree program trains veterans to be urban foresters
By Colleen O'Connor
Denver, CO (May 26, 2010)- Desert Storm cap planted on his head, Dan Higginbotham installed free shade trees Tuesday in front yards along Zuni Street, hauling mulch and watering the roots. "It's nice to have work," the veteran of the 1990s Persian Gulf War said. Higginbotham and six other homeless veterans are part of Veterans City Canopy, a new program that is training them to be urban foresters. "It's a wonderful trade to get into because nothing stops growing," said Dyana Lynch, an Army Gulf War veteran.
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Daley to hold line on property taxes, halt tree planting
By Gran Spielman
Chicago, IL (May 25, 2010)- Mayor Daley will hold the line on property taxes and declare a one-year moratorium on one of his pet projects- tree planting- to ease the worst budget crisis in Chicago history. Daley is scheduled to announce the belt-tightening during a luncheon speech today at the City Club of Chicago.
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Pilot Projects Put Sustainable Landscape Rating System into Action
Washington, DC (May 24, 2010)- The Sustainable Sites Initiative has selected pilot projects to test a national rating system for sustainable landscape design, construction and maintenance.
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CSX joins near-southeast residents in planting 50 trees to transform gateway
Indianapolis, IN (May 22, 2010)- CSX Corporation, in partnership with Alliance for Community Trees, City Year, and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful will plant 50 large trees and shrubs in an area city officials say is very much "in need of green." The trees selected for planting, which include Serviceberry, Winter King Hawthorne, Northern Red Oak and Sugar Maple are all native and well adapted to the climate and soil conditions of Indiana.
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Iowa communities work to prevent spread of emerald ash borer
By The Iowa Department of Natural Resources
Henderson Island, IA (May 22, 2010)- The recent confirmation of four emerald ash borer (EAB) larvae at Henderson Island on the Mississippi River, near New Albin, will step up Iowa's efforts to prevent the spread of the invasive pest. A quarantine prohibiting the movement of firewood, ash nursery stock, ash timber, or any other article that could further spread EAB is pending from the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. A federal quarantine would follow the state quarantine.
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Urban trees help migrating birds
By Mark Kinver
London (May 21, 2010)- Even a small urban forest can help migrating birds, a study has said. US researchers found that birds used the patches of greenery to rest and refuel in the middle of their journey between winter and breeding sites.
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