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Monday, 08 December 2008 06:19 |
Cities, Enlisted Community Support to Receive Largest Portion of $1 Million Tree Planting Grant American Express announced today that it is giving the City of Atlanta $300,000 for tree-planting projects as part of the American Express Root for Our City Challenge, an initiative designed to help make eight U.S. cities cleaner, greener and more beautiful. The “City of Trees” will receive funding for tree planting programs led by Trees Atlanta, which will support the planting of 300 trees and their maintenance in residential neighborhoods and retail districts throughout the city. Through the Root For Our City Challenge, American Express has committed $1 million toward tree planting projects for further expansion of the nation’s urban tree canopies, with Atlanta securing the largest portion of the $1 million. The additional participating cities, which included Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington DC, will each receive $100,000 for tree planting projects in those cities that will be spearheaded by local environmentally-focused organizations. |
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The City of Decatur hosted their annual Holiday Tour of Homes. This year's tour features homes with the theme of Living Green. Southeast Green was the only publication allowed to take pictures of the homes. Granted most of ours were of fixtures in the bathrooms and ceiling insulation…not your usual interest in the home decorations and holiday greenery. The Living Green tour definitely proves that having a house and it being green does not sacrifice these families sense of home.
