American Forests Celebrates Infrastructure Week 2019 It’s Infrastructure Week! This is the seventh year in a coalition-led effort to stress rebuilding and modernizing America’s infrastructure. The message is clear: America’s future will be shaped by the infrastructure choices we make today. And forests ARE infrastructure. It’s a critical topic
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Partner of American Forests Issues First Urban Forest Preservation Carbon Credits in the World On May 9, King County announced that it had developed and sold the first city forest preservation carbon credits in the world. The buyer was a woman-owned, King County-based fishing company that had recently commissioned
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Game of Ungrowns – Promoting New Forests and Protecting Old Forests Much like the popular television series Game of Thrones, disparate players in the war against climate change have spent much of history largely at odds, sometimes forming alliances but generally working toward their own ends, each believing that
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American Forests National Tree Register, Species: Chinaberry (Melia azedarach), State: VADescription Tree is located in Blandford Cemetery, one of the oldest and largest in America, which is the resting place of some 30,000 Confederate soldiers who lost their lives during the Siege of Petersburg. The tree has pushed up and toppled a grave stone dated
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American Forests Responds to the Recent UN Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Report Much is being said about the UN’s recently released report on climate change and biodiversity. The most comprehensive assessment of its kind, the report claims that one million species are threatened with
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A bimonthly open thread on climate solutions and policies. If you want to discuss climate science, please use the Unforced Variations thread instead.
This month’s open thread about climate science topics. For discussions about solutions and policy, please use the Forced Responses open thread.
American Forests and Alcoa Foundation Announce 2019 Grant Awards Washington, D.C. (April 30, 2019) — American Forests and Alcoa Foundation announce ten new grant recipients in the final year of a three-year partnership to enhance biodiversity and combat climate change in key areas across the globe. New projects will
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Job Title: Rhode Island Climate & Health Fellow Location: 235 Promenade Street Providence, Rhode Island 02908 Department: American Forests Programs Reports to: 1. Director of Urban Forestry, American Forests (Washington, DC). 2. Deputy Chief, Rhode Island DEM Division
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Governor Raimondo Marks Arbor Day with Grant Awards Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, American Forests Praise RI’s Resilient Rhody Strategy WOONSOCKET, RI – Governor Gina M. Raimondo today joined state officials, the City of Woonsocket, RI Tree Council, American Forests, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, National Grid, and other partners at
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