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How planting trees fights racial inequity and climate change in Twin Cities' poorest neighborhoods

Residents in neighborhoods with less tree cover face hotter summers, higher bills and more health complications. Several metro cities and nonprofits are working to repair this gap in the canopy.

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In search of tree equity

The Twin Cities have serious livability problems that stare us in the face every damn day. They can be refined through the filter of statistical disparities, but most of us can see what it's all about with such analysis as framed by the left. Indeed, the analysis presented by the left obfuscates the problems. Today's Star Tribune delivers one such statistical disparity that might be at the the bottom of

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