$7.34 million in Environmental Justice Community Impact Grants is available to help communities most vulnerable to the impacts of pollution and climate change address environmental concerns and legacy pollution. Grants will support community-based organization projects that engage their communities around environmental justice issues and deploy community-driven solutions. This funding [...]
Guest Contributor: Ruby A. Olisemeka, Director of Urban Engagement, Westchester Land Trust Photos by John Zeiger What is a vision? It’s a thought or image that captivates the mind, demanding the use of our human creative capacity to bring it into existence. [...]
Guest Contributor: Jessica Pyrda, District Forester, Oneida County Soil & Water Conservation District It was a pleasure working as a mentor with Eric Bugbee and Angela Martin, the TREE TEAM from the Mount Markham Central School District, and Arborist Terry Hawkridge on [...]
ACT’s next environmental justice training will be held on Tuesday, July 9 from 10:30am to 12:00pm Central Time. This month's session is titled Community Outreach Using Lessons from Public Health Communication and will be facilitated by Dr. Christine Carmichael of Fair Forests Consulting. In this 90-minute training, Alliance [...]
Contributing Writer: Aelwen Johnstone, Millennium Kids Youth Board Member Millennium Kids (MK), is an environmental youth organisation based in Australia. We have been championing youth empowerment and environmental advocacy since 1996, inspiring youth-led initiatives and leaving an indelible mark on the [...]
New York State Urban Forestry Council (NYSUFC) invites your school to participate in an exciting new program: the TREE TEAM! The TREE TEAM is a collaboration between K-12 schools and tree professionals, with the goal of moving schools toward recognition as an Arbor Day Foundation Tree Campus [...]
Would you like to make a difference in helping kids to grow up appreciating, valuing, and knowing something about trees? NYSUFC is currently enrolling mentors for a pilot grant program called the TREE TEAM, which has been initiated to help winning New York State schools move [...]
Contributing Writer: Marc Ferris, author of Star-Spangled Banner: The Unlikely Story of America's National Anthem (Johns Hopkins University Press); contributor, River Journal, Highlands Current, Chronogram and Albany Times Union. Reprinted from River Journal. Irvington Woods Park is a special place. Beyond being the [...]
EPA Invites Youth to Serve on Agency’s First-Ever National Environmental Youth Advisory Council The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the formal establishment of the agency’s first-ever National Environmental Youth Advisory Council (NEYAC). The NEYAC will provide independent advice and recommendations to Administrator Michael S. Regan on [...]
The Village of Hempstead Arbor Day Celebration took place on Saturday, April 22, 2023, at the Village of Hempstead Park, Denton Green located on James A. Garner Way in Hempstead, New York. The Arbor Day event provided community members and students an opportunity to become involved in [...]