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.
December 2024
☑️ ARTICLE: Urban Forests: A Tale of 8 Global Cities- Mapping 3+30+300
☑️ ARTICLE: The Tree Army Embarks on Critical Mission
☑️FREE DOWNLAOD: Turning Government Leaders into Tree Supporters
☑️ UPCOMING WEBINAR: Harnessing Urban Forests for Natural Disaster Resilience
☑️ARTICLE: Tiny Forests: Big Potential, Bigger Challenges?
☑️ ARTICLE: A Groundbreaking Study by USC and the South L.A. Tree Coalition
☑️ ARTICLE: Aspen Tree-Inspired Eco Hotel
☑️ ARTICLE: Urban Forests: More Than Just Trees
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November 2024
☑️ NEW FEATURE: TreePlotter Projects
☑️ ARTICLE: Tech Meets Trees!
☑️ CLIENT SPOTLIGHT: Austin’s Tree Ordinances: A Growing Success Story
☑️INFOGRAPHIC: Transforming Tree & Infrastructure Management
☑️ ARTICLE: Green Space Exposure Benefits Study
☑️JOB OPPORTUNITY: PlanIT Geo is hiring a Product Manager
☑️ CASE STUDY: Revolutionizing Urban Forest Management: Basalt’s Success with TreePlotter
☑️ BLOG: Urban Forests: A Strategy for Sustainable Cities
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
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