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.

CommuniTREE News January 2024

February 2025

 

☑️ ARTICLE: Branching Out or Taking Root? Your Urban Forestry Program’s Health Check
☑️CASE STUDY: Green Spaces in Schools: Nurturing Minds and Well-being
☑️ON-DEMAND WEBINAR: Harnessing Urban Forests for Natural Disaster Resilience
☑️ARTICLE: Palm Springs: Mandating 2-for-1 Replacement Ratio in Proposed Tree Ordinance
☑️ ARTICLE: Pathways for Inclusive Urban Climate Resilience
☑️ PODCAST: Urban Forests: A Nature-Based Solution to Climate Breakdown and Inequality
☑️ ON-DEMAND WEBINAR: Gardening the Globe: Tech’s Impact on Urban Forestry & Horticulture for The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
☑️ ARTICLE: Oklahoma City Using GIS Technology to Tackle Extreme Heat Challenges
☑️ ARTICLE: Future Woodlands Scotland and BP
☑️ GUIDE: Cultivating Tree Advocates on City Council
☑️ ARTICLE: Green Infrastructure in Flood Mitigation: Why it’s Critical Now More Than Ever
☑️ ARTICLE: One Tree at a Time: A Plan for Reviving Kansas City’s Urban Forest

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CommuniTREE News January 2024

January 2025

 

☑️ ARTICLE: Healing Together: Insights into Urban Forest Management from LA’s Fires

☑️ ARTICLE: The Los Angeles Fires: Is Climate Change a Scapegoat for Poor Policy?

☑️ UPCOMING WEBINAR: Harnessing Urban Forests for Natural Disaster Resilience

☑️ARTICLE: Annapolis is Positioning Itself at the Forefront of Urban Forestry Management

☑️ ARTICLE:17 Minutes and 9 Seconds in Nature Daily Can Significantly Boost Mental Health and Well-Being

☑️ ARTICLE: Greening Brisbane’s Streets: We Need Action for a Cooler, Walkable City

☑️ UPCOMING WEBINAR: Gardening the Globe: Tech’s Impact on Urban Forestry & Horticulture for The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

☑️ ARTICLE: Trees Can Be Secret Weapons for City Budgets and Public Health

☑️ ARTICLE: Tell a Story, Rally Local Support, and Unlock Smarter Funding

 

CommuniTREE Dec 2024

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

 

CommuniTREE Newsletter 2024

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

 

CommuniTREE News September 2024 from PlanIT Geo

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

CommuniTREE News from PlanIT Geo and TreePlotter August 2024

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

CommuniTREE Newsletter JULY 2024 from PlanIT Geo

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 CommuniTREE News

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

CommuniTREE News May 2024

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

CommuniTREE News April 2024

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

 

CommuniTREE News March 2024

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

 

CommuniTREE News Februaru2024

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

 

CommuniTREE News December 2023

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