[ACT] NeighborWoods Network Update Sep 19

[Alice Ewen Walker]

	September 19, 2007

		
  	

In the News

Success Story

Research

Public Policy

Events

Funding




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IN THE NEWS
Salt Lake to Plant 1 Million Trees by 2017
Salt Lake City (September 11, 2007)- Salt Lake County Mayor, Peter  
Corroon, announced plans last week to plant a million trees in the  
Salt Lake Valley during the next decade- an ambitious aim that will  
take about 274 tree-plantings per day- seven days a week, 365 days a  
year.

  	


  	

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SUCCESS STORY
Working with Major League Baseball's All Star Games
(Houston, TX)- Trees for Houston, with support from state sales tax  
revenue, helped to coordinate the planting of more than 4,000 trees  
in downtown Houston when the 2004 Major League Baseball All Star Game  
was held there.

  	



  	

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RESEARCH
Urban Stormwater Retrofit Practices
Ellicott City, MD (August 2007)- Over the last four years, the Center  
for Watershed Protection produced a series of 11 manuals that  
describe the techniques to restore small urban watersheds. The entire  
series of manuals were written to organize the enormous amount of  
information needed to restore small urban watersheds. Manual 3: Urban  
Stormwater Retrofit Practices has now been released.

  	
  	

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PUBLIC POLICY
Forest Service Chief Urges Using Forests to Power Cars and Fight  
Global Warming
Washington, DC (September 8, 2007)- U.S. Forest Service Chief,  
Abigail Kimbell, has proposed using national forests to fight global  
warming in two ways: using its wood as a biofuel and planting more  
trees to absorb CO2.

  	


  	

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EVENTS
Getting Into Greenroofs- September 20
National Webcast hosted by ACT
Greenroofing offers an attractive alternative to the barren deserts
of tar, gravel and asphalt usually seen from urban windows.  
Greenroofs can capture and evaporate up to 100 percent of rainwater  
in their space, making them ideal for urban settings in which high- 
density development offers few opportunities for rainwater to  
percolate into the soil during storms.

  	
  	

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FUNDING
Funding to start a nonprofit organization- Deadline: Rolling
The Draper Richards Foundation will award four fellowships providing  
funding of $100,000 annually for three years to entrepreneurs  
starting new nonprofit organizations in the United States.

  	
  	
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