[ACT] Treebune News- Summit Recordings and Shade-tree mechanics

[Jared Liu]

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	June 15, 2009	 	
		
  	


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NATIONAL NEWS
2009 ACT Summit Recordings and Resources Available
(Washington, DC)- Last month, the Alliance for Community Trees  
organized the first annual Green Infrastructure Summit and Urban Trees  
Forum. The two days of Hill meetings, discussions, and a Congressional  
Briefing on SmartGrowth took place on Capitol Hill. Presentations,  
recordings, and downloadable resources are now available.

  	


  	
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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.

  	



  	
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