Posted on February 23, 2010 at 3:07 pm
The iPhone application for street tree lovers finally exists. Of course, presently, it only exists for New York City street tree lovers.
Trees Near You chronicles all of the 500,000 street trees in New York City, providing species type, size and the estimated environmental and economic benefits provided.
As shown on the application’s Web site, users can [...]
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Tags: carbon, runoff, street trees
Posted on February 23, 2010 at 9:12 am
For the first time since 1980, the City of Portland is rewriting its codes and policies, including urban forestry.
Eric Engstrom of the Portland Bureau of Planning & Sustainability (BPS)—the bureau spearheading the all-encompassing Portland Plan—presented to the Urban Forestry Commission last Thursday on their specific topic and the overall status of the project.
Calling it the [...]
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Tags: BPS, carbon, development, policy
Posted on February 17, 2010 at 1:00 pm
What do you get when you cross an American Sycamore with an Oriental Sycamore?
The answer is not ‘Mixed-race Sycamore.’
According to The Los Angeles Times, the result is “probably the most planted urban street tree in the world.”
This big tree, found in London, Paris, New York and Los Angeles, tolerates polluted air, compacted soil and hard [...]
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Posted on January 25, 2010 at 4:36 pm
A group of investors is planning to build a green oasis in a desert this year and are naming it the Sahara Forest Project, according to National Geographic.
The project is meant to create not only a green oasis in the desert, but also a completely sustainable living model that provides its own energy and food.
Trees [...]
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Tags: carbon, planting
Posted on January 20, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Thanks to its two programs (Neighborhood Trees and Green Space Initiative), Friends of Trees has already planted 5,440 trees and shrubs this planting season. The same planting season that started Sept. 26.
With 32 plantings left, there is still plenty of time to roll up the sleeves and contribute to cleaning our communal air and water, [...]
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Tags: canopy, carbon, Gift Trees, I-205, planting, runoff
Posted on January 18, 2010 at 1:29 pm
According to many recent studies, slowly rising temperatures, carbon starvation and subsequent droughts are killing trees across Earth landscapes, reports The New York Times.
An excerpt: “Ecologists know how to grow trees, but we don’t know how to kill them realistically,” said Allen. “We don’t know the thresholds of tree mortality.”
The particular reasons a plant dies [...]
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Posted on January 13, 2010 at 1:49 pm
A new report made available today cites “strong evidence” that exposure to traffic can produce new cases of asthma and heart ailments, reports The New York Times.
An excerpt from the story:
Exhaust from cars and trucks exacerbates asthma in children and may cause new cases as well as other respiratory illnesses and heart problems resulting in [...]
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Tags: carbon, EPA, I-205, Metro, ODOT, planting
Posted on December 21, 2009 at 12:45 pm
A biking geophysicist at Western Washington University is studying the effect street trees have on reducing the amount of harmful particles in the air, reports The Olympian.
In an interview with Friends of Trees, Bernard Housen described how he has found urban street trees to be good monitors of airborne pollutants, because of their ability to [...]
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Posted on October 14, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Circa the 1990s, this video produced by PGE and featuring narration by the great James DePreist, outlines Portland’s street tree history from day one to the creation of Friends of Trees.
Watch our other videos on our Youtube page.
–TS
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Tags: canopy, carbon, habitat, planting, runoff, Seed the Future, shade, street trees, video
Posted on September 25, 2009 at 1:02 pm
In a study of sold homes on the east side of Portland, a new report says street trees add an average of $8,870 to sales prices and reduce time-on-market by almost two days.
The report, which will be published in Landscape and Urban Planning, is the first of its kind to examine the “effect of urban [...]
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Tags: canopy, carbon, G2G, planting, runoff, street trees
Posted on September 4, 2009 at 2:37 pm
The BBC and London Times report this week that the Institute of Mechanical Engineers has a new study on geo-engineering. One main tenet of the report: artificial trees have the potential to remove CO2 thousands of times faster than real trees—those pretty green things that also absorb runoff, provide habitat, create shade and generally [...]
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