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People are used to thinking about the city's "grey" infrastructure, such as sewers and roads, but this "green" infrastructure is also important and worth managing, said Jenny Wheeler, Edmonton's principal of forestry.

The Canadian Institute of Forestry is partnering with several other groups, including the World Clean Air Forest Initiative, with Clean Air Tree Kits offered through its Forests Without Borders program.For every tree planted in Canada and registered online, an international partner plants a tree in countries such as Ghana, India and Zambia.

There is unequivocal evidence that the concentration of CO2 is increasing in the atmosphere. This increase is being driven by the burning of fossil fuels and the conversion of forested to non-forested land uses

TreeLink provides the knowledge and local TreeBanks offer a proactive way for anyone to act on their green intentions and support local community trees. Dollar for dollar, there is no better investment in the local environment.

Trees in urban areas provide a number of important benefits. They help to clean the air, curb stormwater runoff, raise property values, sequester carbon, and reduce energy costs.

The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) assists developing countries in their efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation--called REDD--by providing value to standing forests.

Street trees in the City of Toronto have a life expectancy of 5 to 7 years due to the stresses placed on the tree such as concrete planting containers, hard and/or very compacted surface area, and the stress of high volumes of vehicle and pedestrian traffic.

The Tree Benefit Calculator allows anyone to make a simple estimation of the benefits individual street-side trees provide. this tool should be considered a starting point for understanding trees’ value in the community, rather than a scientific accounting of precise values

The Forestry Futures Trust Committee is pleased to invite Sustainable Forest License holders and Managers of Crown units to participate in the twenty-ninth call for applications under the recently announced Silviculture Job Stimulus Program

In a call to further individual and collective action, UNEP has set a new goal of planting 7 billion trees by the end of 2009. The campaign strongly encourages the planting of indigenous trees and trees that are appropriate to the local environment.

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The Northern forest industry has benefited the province and beyond for a long time “and this is the time where we need to have some special consideration to make sure we don’t lose something that’s an integral part of Northern Ontario,” she said.
Mayors from around the region share the same concerns, she said.