Photo Credit: Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center At the Arbor Day Foundation, we know that trees have superpowers: they protect us from the harmful increases in carbon emissions and provide us with…
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The Arbor Day Foundation partners with Taking Root through its CommuniTree program in Nicaragua. A certified Plan Vivo project, its model has been used as a best-practice reforestation solution by organizations including the United…
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Focus on Low- to Moderate- Income Tree Planting Can Lead to Large-Scale Impact Traditionally, urban areas with the lowest canopy cover are low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. People living in these areas don’t have the…
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One Tree City USA community is integrating the Foundation’s Community Canopy program to reach their tree canopy goals. Trees are something the people of Spokane, Washington, are passionate about. They embrace the benefits trees…
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By Bob Cunningham There are countless ways trees benefit urban communities and society as a whole, but they also come with a built-in hindrance: They are expensive. U.S. cities lose an average 36 million…
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Urban and Community Forestry
Featured Partner: England’s Community Forests Transform Landscapes and Communities
With urban populations continuing to expand and more people living and working in cities and towns, trees and forests play an increasingly important role in improving health and happiness in communities.…
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The institution launched the YSU Legacy Forests project with the goal of planting a tree for every freshman who enrolls in the university to leave a legacy for them and for the community to…
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Corporate Partnerships Replanting Our National Forests
El Yunque National Forest Advances with the Arbor Day Foundation
In 2017, Puerto Rico’s El Yunque National Forest experienced long-lasting damage from Hurricanes María and Irma.…
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Corporate Partnerships Replanting Our National Forests Wildfire Recovery
The Arbor Day Foundation and Quilted Northern®, Planting Two Million Trees Together
Written by Todd Wingfield, Sustainability Strategy Director at Georgia-Pacific As a sustainability professional, I’ve noticed in recent years that many consumers have become increasingly interested in more sustainable alternatives within the consumer packaged goods…
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Critical work continues in Madagascar with a focus on safety. Like almost everything else, tree planting has been greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic that began sweeping the globe in the early months of…