[ACT] Treebune News- Green Cities Report and TreeVitalize Statewide Program

[Jared Liu]

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	May 18, 2009	 	
		
  	


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NATIONAL NEWS
Green Cities Report- How Key Cities are Combating Climate Change
(Washington, DC)- A new report released today called Green Cities is  
one of the first assessments of exactly how 40 of the country's  
largest cities are trying to limit their carbon footprints and take  
the steps needed to raise these efforts to the next level. According  
to the survey, cities have generally fallen short in their ability to  
create an equitable green economy- one that connects low-income people  
and under-invested urban communities to the economic mainstream.

  	


  	
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LOCAL STORY
Aid for shade: Municipalities eyeing money to buy trees
(Johnsontown, PA)- Pennsylvania communities are lining up to take  
advantage of a state initiative to increase the number of trees along  
urban streets and in parks. The state Department of Conservation and  
Natural Resources is making available funds to purchase trees.  
Volunteers will be enlisted to plant and maintain the trees for years  
to come.

  	



  	
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