[ACT] ACT Webcast

[Jared Liu]

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	September 11, 2008	 	
		
  	

Session

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Second Segment

Network Exchange

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ABOUT US
  	Alliance for Community
Trees is dedicated to improving the environment where 80% of Americans  
live: our cities, towns, and villages. Together, ACT's national  
network of members have planted and cared for 7.8 million trees with  
help from 450,000 volunteers.	

ABOUT WEBCASTS
The Brown Bag Lunch Series is a monthly webcast held at the lunch  
hour. The goal is to create informal trainings for local urban and  
community forestry organizations. The trainings leverage local  
successes by amplifying to a larger audience the model organizations'  
methods, materials, and approaches.

NATIONAL SPONSOR



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NeighborWoods Month 101
September 11, 2008
1:00- 2:00pm EDT

National NeighborWoods Month is a united campaign to celebrate trees  
and raise awareness for the value of urban forests. Last year,  
NeighborWoods Month staged 235 events in 62 cities, engaging over  
15,000 volunteers in hands-on service to care for city forests. Join  
this special webcast to learn how NeighborWoods Month can help you  
unite local efforts under a national banner to gain greater attention  
and leverage resources. Also come hear about this year's event tools  
and how to use them with your community partners to expand your city's  
celebration of NeighborWoods Month in 2008.

  	
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SESSION TOPICS
Brown Bag attendees will learn:
* How to stage an event to help your local urban forest.
* Using the NeighborWoods Month Planning and Promotion Kit.
* Funding resources available.
* Free downloadable tools, templates, and resources.
* NeighborWoods Month website.

  	
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DEVELOPERS ROUNDTABLE
Patrice Sheehan, Delaware Center for Horticulture (Wilmington, DE)

The Delaware Center for Horticulture (DCH) invited ten development  
companies, fifteen community development organizations, the state  
forester, ACT, the store manager of the local Home Depot, and  
Wilmington Mayor James M. Baker to come together for roundtable  
discussions about community trees. The purpose of the event was to  
rally the support of various influential stakeholders by discussing  
the benefits of trees and demonstrating how to join many others who  
already incorporate trees into construction and redevelopment plans.

  	

  	

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HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Claudia Schenck, Tennessee Environmental Council (Nashville, TN)

Providence Park is a model affordable housing community in  
southeastern Nashville-Davidson County developed by Nashville Area  
Habitat for Humanity (NAHFH). Yet, despite its "green" status, little  
consideration was given to the landscaping, especially on homeowners'  
properties, and the consequences of having few trees including noise  
from the nearby highway, excessive stormwater runoff, poor energy  
efficiency due to lack of shade and windbreaks, and increased health  
risks due to poor air quality.

  	



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NEIGHBORWOODS NETWORK EXCHANGE
Extended Learning- On the Ground

There is so much more that can be learned in a week than in an hour,  
and on the ground as opposed to on a webcast. So here is your chance!  
Join the webcast to learn more about the NeighborWoods Network  
Exchange and how you can spend a week shadowing another ACT member.

  	



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REGISTER FOR THE WEBCAST:

http://actrees.org/site/stories/neighborwoods_month_101_1.php

  	
  	
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Please use and share ACT's materials freely with anyone interested in  
urban forestry, but with this copyright notice intact. Send a copy of  
the cited publication to:
Alliance for Community Trees • 4603 Calvert Road • College Park, MD  
20740 • info at actrees.org
Copyright (c) 2008 Alliance for Community Trees

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