Evergreen Summer

Summer is the best time for Evergreens!
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Exposure to Plants and Parks Can Boost Immunity

"In a series of studies, scientists found that when people swap their concrete confines for a few hours in more natural surroundings — forests, parks and other places with plenty of trees — they experience increased immune function."

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Green Streets for All

"The National Building Museum’s Smart Growth lecture series featured Adam Ortiz, Mayor of Edmonston, Maryland, who put forward his community’s innovative green street as a model, saying that the time has come for green infrastructure best practice to become common practice. Edmonston’s green street, which cost some $1.3 million and took 2-3 years to complete, represents his community’s attempt to “take responsibility” for remedying unsustainable stormwater managment practices. “If a small town can do this, anyone can.”"

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Two groups ring up dollar value of local trees

In an attempt to educate the public about the monetary value of trees, 2 groups in Liberty, MO recently fastened oversized price tags to trees around the downtown area bearing a monetary value on the potential lifetime benefits the tree will pay back to the community.

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Tree census: Chicago-area trees to be counted

"Working in close collaboration with the Forest Service, arboretum census takers are counting the trees in the Chicago region this summer. The aim is to get an accurate count of each species living in yards, parkways and parklands in every city, town and unincorporated area of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will counties."

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Denver tree program trains veterans to be urban foresters - Alliance for Community Trees

Veterans City Canopy is a new program training homeless veterans to be urban foresters. Veterans Green Jobs, a Denver nonprofit that helps homeless veterans get the skills and experience to join the green-jobs economy, has a contract to plant free shade trees in homeowners' front yards.

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Urban trees help migrating birds

"Even a small urban forest can help migrating birds, a study has said. US researchers found that birds used the patches of greenery to rest and refuel in the middle of their journey between winter and breeding sites."

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Trees Mean Jobs

The proposed reauthorization of a national tree-planting program will produce an estimated economic impact of $741 million over the next five years according to a recent study. In addition, the program would create a total employment impact of more than 6,000 jobs during those five years, generating more than $87 million in revenue for federal, state and local governments at a time when municipal greening budgets continue to be cut.
The Small Business Environmental Stewardship Assistance Act (SBESA) is currently being considered in both chambers of the U.S. Congress. Read more about how you can help ANLA's effort to reauthorize the national tree planting program at www.treesmeanjobs.com."
ANLA.org American Nursery and Landscape Association