CommuniTREE Newsletter: Your Source for Urban Forestry News
CommuniTREE News is PlanIT Geo’s monthly newsletter where we share the latest urban forestry news, explore cutting-edge technology, and share educational resources.
September 2024
☑️ CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: Street Tree Trials: Cultivating Urban Forests Across Australia with TREENET
☑️ FREE EBOOK: Having a Tree Champion in Government Can Transform Urban Forestry
☑️ ARTICLE: Tree San Diego Aiming to Increase Tree Canopy from 13% to 35% by 2030
☑️ CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: Transforming Houston’s Urban Heat Landscape
☑️GUIDE: 10 Ways Planting More Trees in Cities Makes People Healthier
☑️ ARTICLE: Helping Teens Fall in Love with the Outdoors and Find a Career
☑️LIVE EVENT: TreePlotter Tuesdays: Work Order Management
☑️ BLOG: Loneliness in a Connected World
☑️ ARTICLE: Urban Forestry Accelerator Launches in Phoenix
☑️ BLOG: Enhance Urban Forest Planning with a Focus on Equity
☑️ ARTICLE: Philadelphia is Taking an Innovative Approach to Urban Forestry and Sustainability
☑️ ARTICLE: Pioneering Forest Resilience at the University of Minnesota
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August 2024
☑️ LIVE EVENT: TreePlotter Tuesdays: Work Orders
☑️ ARTICLE: Securing the Future of American White Oak
☑️ GRANT: Center for Regenerative Solutions Grant Opportunity
☑️ ON DEMAND WEBINAR: Tree Inventory Services You Never Knew You Needed
☑️ ARTICLE: Dogs Helping to Rewild Lewes
☑️ ARTICLE: Is Your Community Trying to Establish an Urban Forestry Program?
☑️ GRANT: EPA Grant Opportunity
☑️ ON DEMAND WEBINAR: New Data For Equitable Urban Forest Planning
☑️ ACTION GUIDE: Urban Wood Use Action Guide
☑️ ARTICLE: The Resilient Canopy
☑️ ARTICLE: Sidewalk Diet
☑️ ARTICLE: Empowering Forest Landowners Against Climate Change
JUNE 2024
☑️ BLOG: Advantages of a Statewide Tree Inventory
☑️ UPCOMING WEBINAR: New Data for Equitable Urban Forest Planning
☑️ ARTICLE: Milan’s Vertical Forest
☑️ ARTICLE: The Man Behind Philadelphia’s Green Future
☑️ ARTICLE: 5 Opportunities for Micro-Greening in Low-Income Urban Settlements
☑️ ARTICLE: Green Infrastructure Plans Need to Consider Historical Racial Inequalities
☑️ UPCOMING WEBINAR: Tree Inventory Services You Never Knew You Needed
☑️ ARTICLE:Promoting Environmental Justice in Urban Tree Plans
☑️ TREE INVENTORY REPORT: Kirkland, Washington Tree Inventory Summary Report
JUNE 2024
☑️ BLOG: A New Tool For Equitable Urban Forest Planning
☑️ UPCOMING WEBINAR: Florida Statewide Urban Tree Canopy Assessment
☑️ ARTICLE: Burn It Where You Buy It
☑️ UCFS NOMINATIONS: Would You Make a Great UCFS Board Member?
☑️ CASE STUDY: Tree Health Care Company Thrives With Software
☑️ ARTICLE: City Trees Save Lives
☑️ ARTICLE: Promoting Environmental Justice in Urban Tree Plans
☑️ ARTICLE: 91% of European cities are implementing nature-based solutions
☑️ ARTICLE: Park Proximity and Older Adults’ Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors in Dense Urban Areas
☑️ GUIDE: 2024 IRA Urban Forestry Grants
May 2024
☑️ BLOG: Urban Forestry’s New Benchmark: The 3-30-300 Rule
☑️ UPCOMING WEBINAR: Authors in Urban Forestry
☑️ ARTICLE: Shade Most Often Goes to the Privileged
☑️ TREEPLOTTER UPDATE: The New and Improved TreePlotter Photo Viewer
☑️ PODCAST: UNESCO Green Citizens Podcast: At the Forest School
☑️ ARTICLE: The Impact Trees Have on our Health
☑️ ARTICLE: Free Food Forests
☑️ ARTICLE: Tree-Removal Laws Must be Tightened if We Want our Cities to be Liveable and Green
☑️ ARTICLE: How Satellites and AI Ignite Hope in Canada’s Battle Against Wildfires
☑️ ON-DEMAND WEBINAR: Mapping the 3-30-300 Rule
April 2024
☑️ ANNOUNCEMENT: PlanIT Geo Announces a New COO and President
☑️ BLOG: California IRA Urban Forestry Grant Guide
☑️ UPCOMING WEBINAR: Mapping the 3-30-300 Rule for Actionable City Greening
☑️ ARTICLE: 7 Common Nature-In-Cities Myths
☑️ ARTICLE: City Launches New Tool to Preserve and Nurture Tree Canopy
☑️ PODCAST: Water Smarts Podcast
☑️ ARTICLE: Urban Forestry Roundtable Works to Cool America’s Hottest City
☑️ ARTICLE: What is a food forest?
☑️ ARTICLE: MSU Providing On-Ramp to Careers in Forestry
☑️ ARTICLE: A Radical Plan for Christchurch
March 2024
☑️ BLOG: How Oxfordshire Utilizes Urban Forestry Data
☑️ ARTICLE: Planting Trees for the Next 100 Years
☑️ UPCOMING WEBINAR: CRM Integration & Project Management through TreePlotter
☑️ ARTICLE: Residents Protest a ‘Silent Deforestation’
☑️ ARTICLE: Train Station In The Forest
☑️ TREEPLOTTER: 12.5 Million Trees
☑️ ARTICLE: Train Station In The Forest
☑️ GUIDE: Best Time to Prune a Maple Tree: How and When?
☑️ ARTICLE: Racism and Unequal Access to Green Spaces
☑️ ARTICLE: Transforming Past Gas Station Site into Future Forest
☑️ ARTICLE: Midwestern States Consider Bans of the Popular – but Invasive – Bradford Pear
☑️ ARTICLE: Hot? Hungry?
☑️ ARTICLE: Tree Inventory Highlights Aging Trees
February 2024
☑️ CONFERENCE: TreePlotter User Conference 2024
☑️ ARTICLE: What is Nature Based Social Prescribing?
☑️ ARTICLE: Atlanta Needs More Trees AND Dense Housing
☑️ WEBINAR: Planting Priorities: How Technology Informs Equitable Canopy
☑️ BLOG: The 10-20-30 Rule For Tree Diversity
☑️ GRANTS: 2024 TREE Fund Research Grants
☑️ ARTICLE: $1M Grant to Address Savannah’s ‘Tree Inequity,’ Offer Non-Traditional Job Path
☑️ NEW TOOL: Tree Equity Score UK
☑️ ARTICLE: Better Mental, Physical Health in Older People Tied to Living Near Nature
☑️ ARTICLE: Do Cities Have to be Green to be Great?
☑️ ARTICLE: Planting a Yard-Sized Urban Forest
☑️ VIDEO: How University of Kentucky Cares for Over 13,500 Trees
December 2023
☑️ CONFERENCE: TreePlotter User Conference 2024
☑️ ARTICLE: Urban Nature Visitation, Accessibility, and Impact of Travel Distance for Sustainable Cities
☑️ ARTICLE: Finding Local Solutions to Climate Change
☑️ DISCUSSION: How Do You Incentivize Tree Preservation in Your Community
☑️ ARTICLE: Sucking up Toxins: Using Trees to Clean Up Contamination Goes International
☑️ CASE STUDY: Perceptions, Practices, and Needs of Urban Forestry: A Case Study from Tennessee, United States
☑️ STUDY: Charlottetown Experiments with Mini Forests to Speed up Growth
☑️ ARTICLE: Let Forests Grow Old to Store Huge Volume of Carbon
☑️ ARTICLE: Protecting Trees on Private Land
November 2023
☑️ ARTICLE: A Time to Invest: Advocates Call for Tree Equity in Black Neighborhoods
☑️ ARTICLE: Verra Announces Innovative, High-Integrity Afforestation, Reforestation and Revegetation Methodology
☑️ ARTICLE: Discovering the Impacts of Urban Walking on Well-Being in Africa and Asia
☑️ WEBINAR: How to Prepare Shovel-Ready Projects to Maximize IRA Funding Opportunities
☑️ LISTEN: Listen to the Sounds of the Largest Tree on Earth
☑️ ARTICLE: Stabenow Restores Funding for Urban Agriculture in Senate-Passed Bill
☑️ AWARD: Elizabeth Schulte is This Year’s Urban and Community Forestry Society Award of Achievement Winner
☑️ ARTICLE: $1B Will Bring More City Trees. But It’ll Take More Than Seedlings to Grow Urban Forests.
☑️ GUIDE: What’s a nature-based solution? An explainer.
☑️ ARTICLE: Inside the 350-year-old ‘Elder Grove’ of Paul Smiths
☑️ ARTICLE: Bringing Back Trees To ‘Forest City’s’ Redlined Areas Helps Residents and The Climate
☑️ ARTICLE: A Need for Green: Cities Look to Trees to Improve Health, Climate Justice
October 2023
☑️ ARTICLE: Setting Intentional Climate Solution Goals As A Corporate Leader
☑️ JOB OPENINGS: PlanIT Geo is hiring a COO and multiple positions
☑️ARTICLE: 10 Stories from the Earth’s Hottest Summer on Record
☑️ BLOG: Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Training and Gender Issues in Tree Climbing
☑️ COURSES: Test Your Urban Forstry Knowledge
☑️ ARTICLE: Go See Trees Challenge, A Tree-Centric Scavenger Hunt
☑️ ARTICLE: How We Brought Mistletoes Back to the Trees of Melbourne
☑️ TREES + TECH SUMMIT: Register for Trees + Tech Summit at TCI Expo
☑️ GUIDE: Urban Forestry And Heat Mitigation 101
September 2023
☑️ ARTICLE: Largest Known Eastern White Pine Found in the Southern Adirondacks
☑️ JOB OPENINGS: PlanIT Geo is Hiring for Multiple Positions
☑️ARTICLE: One Neighborhood, 90 Trees and an 82-Year-Old Crusader
☑️ BLOG: Crowdsourced Urban Heat Maps Reshape Opinions and Landscapes
☑️ ARTICLE: Urban Ashes Launches the Circular UrbanWood Triconomy™ in Ann Arbor
☑️ ARTICLE: US Conference of Mayors Adopts New City Park Resolution, Urges “Robust” Federal Investment
☑️ ARTICLE: USDA Forest Service Invests $20M to Restore Forests, Reduce Wildfire Risk, and Create Jobs in 18 States
☑️ TREES + TECH SUMMIT: Register for Trees + Tech Summit in Washington D.C.
☑️ ARTICLE: Mapping Urban Heat Islands Is Helping These Neighborhoods Adapt
☑️ ARTICLE: How These Entrepreneurs Are Bringing Green Solutions To Our Cities
August 2023
☑️ CONTEST: CommuniTREE Tree Selfie Contest
☑️ON DEMAND WEBINAR: Managing Your Urban Forest From a Statewide View
☑️ BLOG: Integrating CRM Software and TreePlotter™
☑️ ARTICLE: Texas Needs to Tackle Historic Inequalities Affecting who is Most Impacted by Excessive Heat
☑️ ARTICLE: Town of Vienna’s Trees are Unusually Healthy
☑️ ARTICLE: ICROA Endorses Standard for Urban Forest Carbon Offsets
☑️ ARTICLE: Edmonton Targets 2030 for Two Million New Trees
☑️ TREES + TECH SUMMIT: The Future of Urban Forestry conference hosted by PlanIT Geo
☑️ STORYMAP: NYC Parks’ StoryMap “Our Urban Forest”
July 2023
Trees + Tech Summit: The Future of Urban Forestry-REGISTER NOW
Mapping Connecticut’s Understory from Outer SpaceAIPH World
Green City Awards 2024 Accepting Submissions
Your Trees Need a Little Love (and Water) During Dry Spells
The Little-Known Physical and Mental Health Benefits of Urban Trees
Creating the Right Change With Urban Forestry Funding
To Feel Less Heat We Need More Trees
Brewing a Better Urban Forest
Neighborhoods in Mass. Could Get More Shade from Trees Under New Climate Bill
Can Cities Make Room for Woodpeckers?
June 2023
Trees + Tech Summit: The Future of Urban Forestry-REGISTER NOW
Stillmeadow Peace Park
Internet of Nature Season 5 Podcasts
Natural Climate Solutions: Linking Urban Forestry and Climate Action
Association of Tree Officers in the National Diversity and Inclusion Report
Managing Your Urban Forest from a Statewide View
PowerCorps Boston Provides Training in Arboriculture and Urban Forestry
Planting Trees to Fight Pollution and Racism in Bayview Hunters Point
We’re Going to Need So Many Seedlings for the Reforestation Push
Residents are Helping Catalog Charlotte’s Shrinking Tree Canopy