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Master Garderner’s Nate Picken, Frank Amaro along with Pembroke Kentucky Mayor, Judy Peterson help Avery Grace select trees to be planted at Pembroke School. (Photo by Toni Riley)
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Trees Bring Hope, Healing, and a Look to the Future for Western Kentucky Tornado Victims

  • Toni Riley, The Daily Yonder
  • December 27, 2022
A tree grower joins forces with a local organization to replant some of the trees lost in Kentucky during tornadoes of late 2021.
Three people holding shovels planting trees.
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A Plan to Grow 90,000 Trees in Los Angeles

  • James Fallows
  • May 17, 2021
Using tree planting as an axis to connect job creation, climate sustainability, urban renewal, and economic equity and inclusion.
Mehmet McMillan, founder of WildPlaces, and Shelley Forbes, of Otis College, at the seedling-shipping ceremony last week.
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Planting a ‘Trail of Giants’

  • James Fallows
  • November 11, 2019
Last month, as part of a “Big Little Ideas” series, I mentioned a surprisingly valuable short-term step that communities can take, on their own, for positive climate effects. That is to start planting…
People planting a tree.
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Start Planting Trees

  • James Fallows
  • October 13, 2019
Recently Deb Fallows kicked off a series of “Big Little Ideas”—innovations or reforms that could be applied fairly easily at the local level and that might have cumulatively very important effect.…

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