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As Seattle summers warm, neighborhoods in South Seattle where there are fewer trees are whole degrees hotter than their northern neighbors.

City Plants is helping local LA residents get their start as a plant parent with all the tips and resources to grow plants and trees in their communities.

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examining the map and the details show that the same "wedge and crescent" pattern that governs most of the city’s socioeconomic and equity distribution also applies to tree canopy. Tree equity scores for neighborhoods in the southern "wedge" are 100, or in the high 90s. Neighborhoods everywhere else, in the overarching "crescent," score much lower. People of color or low income are far more likely to live in neighborhoods with inadequate tree canopy. Charlotte needs to plant 28,000 trees to raise the score of all neighborhoods to a score of 75, according to American Forests. Dukes and Myers...

Portland on List of Cities With Tree Canopy Inequity Published: 28 June 2021 WASHINGTON, DC – American Forests, the nation’s oldest national conservation organization, last week released its first nationwide tally of Tree Equity Scores (TES), which document that Black and low-income neighborhood have significantly fewer trees than wealthier, whiter communities, even in the same cities. The findings confirm a disturbing pattern of inequitable distribution of trees that has deprived communities of the health and other benefits that sufficient tree cover delivers. In fact, neighborhoods ...