From jared at actrees.org Mon Jun 1 11:44:10 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 11:44:10 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Treebune News- ACT Member Report & FUF Executive Director Search Message-ID: Trouble viewing this? Go to: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/treebune_09jun1.html June 1, 2009 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. NATIONAL SPONSOR SUPPORT ACT NATIONAL NEWS ACT Member Report (College Park, MD)- The Alliance for Community Trees is engaging in a comprehensive process to identify national and local successes in urban and community forestry. On a base benchmarking level, it is helpful to know what your peers look like and what kind of programs they operate. This information can be as difficult to come by as it is important in strategic growth. Through the open sharing of the urban forest community and the support of The Home Depot Foundation, ACT is able to provide this data. We hope this report has applicability to your everyday work. Read the full story LOCAL STORY Executive Director Search: Friends of the Urban Forest (San Francisco, CA)- Friends of the Urban Forest is seeking an experienced, entrepreneurial, visionary leader. Since 1981, FUF has grown to become San Francisco's leader in promoting and creating a larger, healthier urban forest as part of the City's urban ecosystem, through community planting, maintenance, education and advocacy. Read the full story 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 ? 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QUICK LINKS Join ACT Resources Newsroom NATIONAL SPONSOR CONTRIBUTORS GIVE TO ACT CFC#12402 SUCCESS STORY Landscape Services (St. Paul, MN)- Tree Trust has created a fee-for-service, landscape services division to provide earned income to help support the operational costs of its other programs. Projects provide training opportunities for unemployed young adults to learn skills that help them become independent and self-sufficient. Find out how IN THE NEWS ACT Member Report 2008 Goleta Valley Beautiful Receives $10,000 Grant Philadelphians create a green, sustainable city Women Play A Prominent Role In Philanthropy See more News RESEARCH With Plants in Mind: Social Benefits of Civic Nature Community Nature & Network Community Action Guide State of the Urban Forest Final Report Released Community-based Forestry Demonstration Program See more Research PUBLIC POLICY Green Communities Act 21st Century Green High-Performing Public School Act GREEN Act for Affordable Mortgages American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 includes Matsui Amendment See more Public Policy EVENTS Bareroot Trees Webcast Green Infrastructure Summit Resources Available Call for Papers: New Partners for Smart Growth Register for NeighborWoods Month 2009 See more Events FUNDING Economic Development Recovery Act Funding Kodak American Greenways Program Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program Grant KIDS Consortium: Green Schools Mini-Grants See more Funding 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) 2009 Alliance for Community Trees To Subscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends To Unsubscribe: Reply to this email with the subject "remove" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jared at actrees.org Mon Jun 8 14:28:30 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:28:30 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Treebune News- GREEN Act for Affordable Homes and San Antonio Tree Ordinance Message-ID: <70CF4E2F-19BB-4473-88D7-0A7C973EAAA3@actrees.org> Trouble viewing this? Go to: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/treebune_09jun8.html June 8, 2009 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. NATIONAL SPONSOR SUPPORT ACT NATIONAL NEWS GREEN Act for Affordable Homes Hearing (Washington, DC)- On Thursday, June 11, the House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity will hear testimony regarding the GREEN Act of 2009 (H.R. 2336). Please let your Representative know- before Thursday's hearing- that this bill is important to you, and ask him/her to be a co-sponsor. Read the full story LOCAL STORY Tree Rules OK in Zone Outside City Limit (San Antonio, TX)- For years, developers have tried to ignore San Antonio's tree preservation ordinance on the city's outskirts. And for just as long, City Attorney Michael Bernard and other officials have insisted San Antonio has a right to protect trees in a 5-mile buffer zone outside city limits known as the extraterritorial jurisdiction. Last week, the 4th Court of Appeals weighed in on the debate and sided with the city. Read the full story 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) 2009 Alliance for Community Trees To Subscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends To Unsubscribe: Reply to this email with the subject "remove please" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jared at actrees.org Wed Jun 10 10:58:53 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:58:53 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Root Issue Research- Climate Action Reserve and Tools for Educators Message-ID: Trouble viewing this? Go to: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/rootissue_09jun10.html June 10, 2009 Issue Audience 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. QUICK LINKS Join ACT Resources Newsroom SUPPORT ACT SPOTLIGHT ISSUE Climate The Climate Action Reserve Forest Project Protocol provides guidance for developing urban tree planting and stewardship projects that can be registered as carbon offsets. The protocol establishes eligibility rules, methods to calculate reductions, performance-monitoring instructions and procedures for reporting project information. The protocol applies to tree planting projects on urban landscapes within municipalities, educational campuses, and utility service areas. Read more FEATURED AUDIENCE Educators Students who are the best informed about environmental science and the geosciences are also the most realistic about the environmental difficulties facing the world over the next 20 years, new research has found. But students who are least informed are the most wildly optimistic that things will improve. Read more 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) 2009 Alliance for Community Trees To Subscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends To Unsubscribe: Reply to this email with the subject "remove" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jared at actrees.org Thu Jun 11 13:42:21 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:42:21 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Celebrate NeighborWoods Month 2009... FREE T-Shirts! Message-ID: <33BCEC7E-6E0C-48AE-A5D2-41DA795D068F@actrees.org> Trouble viewing this? Go to: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/nwm_09jun11.html June 11, 2009 Spotlight About NeighborWoods E-Tools Mini-Grant Promotional Gear Register 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. QUICK LINKS Join ACT Resources Newsroom NATIONAL SPONSOR CONTRIBUTORS SPOTLIGHT FREE NeighborWoods Tshirts! It pays to register early... literally. Register your October event by August 1 and, in addition to being eligible for a $500 Mini-Grant, ACT will send you up to 25 FREE NeighborWoods Month Tshirts. Professionally designed Tshirts are a great way to brand your event as part of the national effort and recognize volunteers. What are you waiting for? Find out more ABOUT NEIGHBORWOODS October is National NeighborWoods Month NeighborWoods Month is a united campaign to celebrate trees and raise awareness for the value of urban forests. During October, tree advocates 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. Learn more E-TOOLS Electronic Outreach Tools (E-Tools) The webs tools are fun, friendly, and easy to fit into your existing outreach materials. We've created colorful NeighborWoods Month banners, ribbons, and logos for you to use. THe tools do not require advanced technological knowledge to employ, and will overlay one corner of your webpage without altering it. Just past a one line script into your HTML to add the desired image. It's that easy! Get connected MINI-GRANT Up to $500- Deadline: Sept. 1 Make your event more memorable and successful. Request up to $500 in financial assistance as a way to accomplish something extra, such as purchasing marketing, media, or additional promotional items, hiring a photographer, creating awards, or making your event kid-friendly. Apply for a Mini-Grant FREE GEAR AND MATERIALS Order NeighborWoods Promotional Gear By registering your October event with ACT, you will receive free professionally designed marketing materials including T-shirts, posters, banners, door hangers, toolbelts, and kids' activity cards. See samples and order additional quantities! Order free gear REGISTER YOUR EVENT Join the Campaign! 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Presentations, recordings, and downloadable resources are now available. Read the full story LOCAL STORY Shade-tree mechanics (Sacramento, CA)- With all the talk of climate change and energy efficiency, Sacramento leaders- including the Sacramento Tree Foundation and Congresswoman Matsui- are once again making headlines as their local utility partner, SMUD, details why they spend about $1.5 million annually ($30 million to date) on their shade tree program. Now the focus of pending federal legislation, the idea is energy conservation through trees... an idea that has already saved $128 million in energy costs in Sacramento alone since the program began in 1990. That added shade has saved enough electricity to allow SMUD to skip building another power plant. Ask your Congressman to support the Energy Conservation through Trees provision in H.R. 2454. Read the full story 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) 2009 Alliance for Community Trees To Subscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends To Unsubscribe: Reply to this email with the subject "remove please" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jared at actrees.org Tue Jun 16 11:11:15 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:11:15 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Network Update- June 16, 2009 Message-ID: <87DB6D42-F7BB-49FD-8CF1-98D32D8DA1CF@actrees.org> Trouble viewing this? Go to: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/network_09jun16.html June 16, 2009 Success Story In the News Research Public Policy Events Funding 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. QUICK LINKS Join ACT Resources Newsroom NATIONAL SPONSOR CONTRIBUTORS GIVE TO ACT CFC#12402 SUCCESS STORY Send us your story Do you have a successful program, project, or partnership that you'd like to share with the larger ACT community? Over 2,000 urban forestry leaders want to know what works in your community. Tell us about your most successful program, best fundraiser, greatest advocacy victory, most innovative partnership, or smartest management decision. ACT will turn your stories into: case studies, newsletter articles, webcasts, and more. Tell us what you're most proud of, and help the alliance grow stronger, together. Find out how IN THE NEWS ACT Member Report 2008 The Dirt: Mapping the urban forest Up With Trees Receives NeighborWoods Grant Nonprofit works to restore green canopy to Detroit See more News RESEARCH Why Shade Streets? The Unexpected Benefit Volunteer Management Best Practices Study Urban Forestry Strategic & Management Plans Beetles Cellulosic Ethanol Production See more Research PUBLIC POLICY ACT Legislative Priorities for 2009 Green Communities Act GREEN Act for Affordable Mortgages FY10 Forest Service Budget See more Public Policy EVENTS Remaking Policy and Practice in a Time of Transformation Adaptive Management of Water Resources II Sailing into the Future of Arboriculture Register for NeighborWoods Month 2009 See more Events FUNDING NeighborWoods Month Mini-Grant 2009 Environmentally Sustainable Affordable Design Program Ameriprise Financial Community Giving Program Operation Green Plant- Free Seeds See more Funding 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 ? 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NATIONAL SPONSOR SUPPORT ACT NATIONAL NEWS Guidelines for Eco Friendly Service Projects (Washington, DC)- KaBOOM! and The Home Depot Foundation are excited to present the first comprehensive guidelines on how to make playspace service projects as eco-friendly as possible. The guidelines are the result of interview research, workshops, and surveys including dialogue with ACT. As part of a broader partnership with KaBOOM!, we hope that these guidelines are a useful tool in your outreach locally. Read the full story LOCAL STORY Nonprofit works to restore green canopy to Detroit (Detroit, MI)- A batch of trees that will soon be planted on a wild, overgrown patch of land near a Detroit neighborhood is expected to be a step toward bringing back a vibrant, green canopy to the Motor City. The nonprofit group Greening of Detroit is pushing urban reforestation- even during a tough economy. "The need is expanding, so we're trying to keep pace," said Rebecca Salminen Witt, the organization's president. Read the full story 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) 2009 Alliance for Community Trees To Subscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends To Unsubscribe: Reply to this email with the subject "remove please" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jared at actrees.org Thu Jun 25 14:16:27 2009 From: jared at actrees.org (Jared Liu) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:16:27 -0400 Subject: [ACT] Webcast- Urban Landscaping- Part II: Tree Stock Message-ID: <9BC0BBEB-69C4-4CFB-8C0D-7980760648DD@actrees.org> Trouble viewing this? Go to: http://actrees.org/files/Newsletter/bbls_09jul16.html July 16, 2009 Session Topics First Segment Second Segment Network Exchange Register 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 14.9 million trees with help from 4.3 million volunteers. ABOUT WEBCASTS The Third Thursday Webcast 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 CONTRIBUTOR Urban Landscaping- Part II: Tree Stock July 16, 2009 1:00- 2:00pm EST Millions of dollars are spent each year designing, implementing, and maintaining urban landscapes. Urban landscaping presents a variety of challenges, including physiological problems; working with municipalities; developing technologies for city use; and utilizing methods beyond field work to promote environmental care. Yet the quality of life benefits of proper urban landscaping are dramatic. By using sustainable landscape practices, cities and towns can avoid or reduce serious problems, in part by transforming their urban forests into major rainwater mitigation assets. Tree stock selection can play an important role in the long-term success of urban landscaping. Register now SESSION TOPICS Webcast attendees will learn: * Understanding the process from design to care. * Species selection based on rainwater, UHI, water temperature. * Selecting for rooting area, utility conflicts, project budget. * Factoring in social and economic health of urban communities. * Species selection for size, volunteer abilities, and maintenance. Register now RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE Jim Urban, JimUrban Associates (Annapolis, MD) Jim Urban's work is constantly evolving the field of urban landscaping. A recent advancement that he is now pioneering is the Silva Cell, a modular, pre-engineered cell system designed specifically to meet the needs of water management soil and tree roots. The system is designed to create large spaces under the pavement, and the pavement is supported and protected from root damage by the cell structure. Register now ON THE GROUND Sue Probart, Tree New Mexico (Albuquerque) Tree New Mexico operates one of the most successful tree stewardship operations in the country. Annually, they're responsible for the planting and care of 3,000 to 5,000 trees in collaboration with communities, neighborhood associations, public housing, highways, and public green spaces. Selecting tree stock is a major decision that affects successful plantings. Learn why Tree New Mexico uses containerized trees. Register now 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. Register now REGISTER FOR ALL WEBCASTS: http://actrees.org/site/stories/act_webcast_series.php 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 ? 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NATIONAL SPONSOR SUPPORT ACT NATIONAL NEWS Trees for Healthy Homes Award (College Park, MD)- Trees for Healthy Homes is a national honor given by the Alliance for Community Trees. The award recognizes cities and counties for improving the environmental health and livability of affordable housing through investments in trees and community forest stewardship. The goal of the award is to recognize and promote the utilization of trees as a strategic tool to improve the health of low- income residents' home environment. Read the full story LOCAL STORY Tree Planting in SoCal Connects Community with Environment (Los Angeles, CA)- Years ago, as a 15-year-old camper in the San Bernardino Mountains, he'd noticed pine trees ravaged by smog and fire and had mobilized friends to plant a smog-tolerant variety in their place. A lifelong mission was born. As the president of TreePeople, a nonprofit organization he founded in 1973, Lipkis, now 54, has inspired hundreds of thousands of volunteers to plant more than two million trees throughout Southern California. Read the full story 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) 2009 Alliance for Community Trees To Subscribe: friends at actrees.org an announce-only list for ACT's NeighborWoods Network http://actrees.org/site/lists/friends To Unsubscribe: Reply to this email with the subject "remove please" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: