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April 20, 2017

Communities Across the Country Prepare to Celebrate the 145th Arbor Day

April 28, 2017 marks the 145th celebration of Arbor Day. A holiday established in 1872 in Nebraska City to inspire people to plant trees, it became a legal holiday in 1885.

March 17, 2017

TD Bank and Arbor Day Foundation Announce Winners of TD Green Streets Grants

Today, TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank® and the Arbor Day Foundation announced the 2017 recipients of TD Green Streets.

October 6, 2016

NeighborWoods® Month Survey Reveals How Important Trees Are to Home Owners

Alliance for Community Trees, a program of the Arbor Day Foundation encompassing a collective of local tree planting non-profits, kicks-off NeighborWoods month, the annual celebration of trees and green communities.

September 14, 2016

Arbor Day Foundation Lands a Grant toward Hybrid Hazelnut Research

The Arbor Day Foundation is proud to announce the organization is a recipient of a three million dollar USDA grant as part of the Hybrid Hazelnut Consortium to expand research on hybrid hazelnuts.

Inc.

Let's Reject Greenhushing and Put Corporate Climate Action in the Spotlight

Corporate green commitments, once proudly announced from the rooftops, are now quietly whispered about and often tucked from view.

Grist

The secret ingredient in Biden’s climate law? City trees.

Planting trees in cities sounds simple. Here's why the Forest Service is spending $1.5 billion on it.

Washington Post

Mapping America’s access to nature, neighborhood by neighborhood

A city is a science experiment. What happens when we separate human beings from the environment in which they evolved?

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