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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Celebrating Excellence in Nonprofit Management
By Lisa Cremin, director of community advancement, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta has a powerful annual award, Managing for Excellence. It is given to two nonprofit organizations that are exceptionally well-run in their operations, management and governance, and exhibit innovation, among other criteria. Now in its 33rd year, the […]
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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.
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Atlanta to invest nearly $1 million in tree planting, programs about urban forest
Trees Atlanta is slated to plant about 4,000 trees throughout Atlanta and provide various programs to teach people about the importance of trees, according to legislation pending before the Atlanta City Council.
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Third graders to plant trees as Atlanta’s proposed tree ordinance revision remains mired in politics
In a simple gesture of respect for the environment, third-grade pupils at Milford Elementary School in Cobb County are to plant 41 trees Friday.
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Atlanta plans to plant 4,000 new trees, use hungry goats and sheep to eat invasive plants on public land
Atlanta’s famed and beloved urban forest is to be expanded by about 4,000 trees by April 15, 2015 under an agreement with Trees Atlanta the Atlanta City Council is slated to adopt Monday.
Sheep and goats are to be grazed on public lands in an effort to combat invasive plants, according to another part of the pending legislation. Trees Atlanta promises that the grazing will be overseen by trained volunteers at no cost to the city.
The planting comes at a time Atlanta’s trees have been stressed by years of drought, followed by a summer of exceptionally high amounts of rainfall that has saturated the soil.
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Atlanta BeltLine a path for private entities to partner for public good
By Guest Columnist VALARIE WILSON, executive director of the BeltLine Partnership, a private, non-profit organization dedicated to fostering support for Atlanta’s BeltLine
Standing on the playground at Historic Fourth Ward Park on a weekend afternoon, surrounded by young families, you look down into the park, past the amphitheater toward the water and see others walking their dogs and generally moving at the sort of leisurely pace inspired by such havens within a city.
You’re in the shadow of hundreds of new apartment and condominiums built in the midst of the worst economy in a generation, filled with residents who want to live in proximity to the park and the Atlanta BeltLine Eastside Trail on the horizon.
