By George Dusenbury, Executive Director, The Trust for Public Land in Georgia Not much happens in Atlanta without Marcia Bansley noticing. In the early 1970s, long before becoming the first executive director of Trees Atlanta, she saw bulldozers chewing through green hills on the south side of Interstate 285, making way for a new development. […]
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HARD WORK TAKES MANY HANDS
By George Dusenbury, Georgia State Director, The Trust for Public Land 2017 was a bit of a transitional year for The Trust for Public Land in Georgia. We spent a lot of time renewing ties with old acquaintances and building ties with new ones. As an organization, we have big dreams, and we know that […]
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The Importance of Vision
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” Proverbs 29:18 By Michael Halicki, Park Pride’s Executive Director People often think of nonprofits as mission driven organizations. While mission is vital to defining what an organization does, it is the vision that defines what you aim to achieve. In these uncertain times, it is vision, not mission, […]
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The Future of Atlanta is Green
Since the Mayoral Forum on Greenspace, many of the candidates responded to a questionnaire with questions related to greenspace policy and what the future of Atlanta’s parks, trees, trails, and watersheds would look like under their respective administration. Read the candidates’ responses on Park Pride’s website, and vote for the greener good! Below is a column […]
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9 Ways You Can Save a Tree
By Judy Yi, Director of Education, Trees Atlanta Why not 10 ways? Why not save a whole forest? We offer 9 simple ways you can save a tree as a reminder that protecting our urban forest does not have to be a perfect or complex solution. It just takes you and me doing what we […]
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CLIMATE CHANGE, PARIS ACCORD, AND ATLANTA’S TREES
By Joe Thomas, Donor and Public Relations Coordinator, Trees Atlanta In the wake of the federal government’s withdrawal from the Paris Accord—the historic worldwide agreement addressing climate change signed by then-President Obama — we have to get serious about the climate crisis at the local level. Now is the time for states, municipalities, and neighborhoods […]
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Green Return: How Investing in Trees Benefits Atlanta
By Dave Simpson What if Trees Atlanta gave a gift valued at $10 Billion to the people of Atlanta? By at least one measurement, we’ve done just that. A single street tree can provide over $90,000 of direct benefits over the course of its lifetime (Burden, 2006), and Trees Atlanta has planted and distributed over […]
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Entering the World of Work
Modeled after an initiative in Indianapolis, Trees Atlanta’s first high school training program, Youth Tree Team, provided a small hourly wage, free lunch, and professional development to students.
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Mindful Awareness of Shifting Baselines
Can you imagine if Atlanta’s grand old trees looked puny next to even taller, larger giants? With Trees Atlanta, I see first-hand signs of shifting baselines in our relationships with tree size.
