The Neighborhood Trees Act of 2023 & Excess Urban Heat Mitigation Act will help deliver shade, cooler temperatures and cleaner air in the communities that need it most, moving us closer toward #TreeEquity. Joel O. Pannell bit.ly/3nggyIP

🙏 Ben Jealous for naming the role of #TreeEquity in #ClimateJustice. The historic $1.5B in Inflation Reduction Act is the 🚀🌗 launch for what must be relentless investment in equitable 🌳 cover as a heat shield for our 🌆. American Forests Sierra Club chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/202…

Lancaster, CA transformed its downtown in just 8 months by redesigning it's main street from a mini-highway to a tree-lined boulevard. For the cost of just $11.5M, the project has generated $273M in economic output since 2010, creating 800 jobs, and nearly doubling tax revenue!

Hear the ⏰? Extreme heat is our top #climate threat, hitting hardest on people who live in urban heat islands and have vulnerabilities like pre-existing health conditions and lack of AC. That’s why #TreeEquity🌳 is a life-saver for #Detroit and other cities. American Forests

Great ⁦Fast Company⁩ piece has the formula to cool our overheated 🌆 & it includes #TreeEquity🌳! Appreciate the shout out to ⁦American Forests⁩ Tree Equity Score as a tool for cities to get this right. fastcompany.com/90927586/8-cre…

Shading our 🌆 from life threatening heat is the most 🚨 reason we must make #TreeEquity a reality. That’s why my fave feature of TreeEquityScore.org 2.0 is better heat analytics showing how many degrees F hotter in each neighborhood lacking 🌳. American Forests 1t.org US Chapter

Happy 🎂 Inflation Reduction Act! Amidst the hottest summer ever recorded, American Forests is 🙏 Sen. Cory Booker made sure IRA includes largest #TreeEquity🌳 investment in 🌎 history to cool our cities. Read about this & more in The White House progress report: whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

You ever heard this one? “Sure, we can plant more 🌳 in cities, but it will be decades before they do any good.” Not even close to true. Just ask my 6 year-old redbud planted as a seedling. Further, most 🌳 we plant in 🌆 are already saplings like this. American Forests

Hey 🇺🇸, I've got 🌳-mendous news! After the hottest summer ever, @ForestService is using $1B of IRA funds to bring natural cooling & clean air from 🌳 to the neighborhoods that need it most. Give a listen for more on this🌎-leading move. American Forests #TreeEquity President Donald J. Trump Dept. of Agriculture

Tree equity, a term coined by American Forests, is the idea that all residents deserve the same access to tree cover and the health and infrastructure benefits it confers. grist.org/looking-forwar…

We’re so excited to announce that American Forests has just signed a 5-year agreement with the National Park Service to help restore threatened whitebark pine! bit.ly/3PSs88r #SaveTheWhitebarkPine #SeedSeptember 🧵

“You can have a photo-op and get a lot of trees in the ground, but that’s not going to be successful without all the other investments that have to go with that.” Hear more from Joel O. Pannell👇 Stateline || bsky @stateline.org Alex Brown stateline.org/2023/10/04/1b-…

We can’t just AC our way out of #Climate. 🌳 provide carbon negative cooling that will help save lives, money & GHGs. #TreeEquity brings cooling & other benefits of 🌳 where needed most, and 🇺🇸 is showing the 🌎 how to do it. My take in ⁦TIME⁩. time.com/6336537/americ…

Is your community climate resilient? Having natural cooling & clean air from 🌳 in every neighborhood is a big factor--just ask USA TODAY. We're proud they used American Forests Tree Equity Score to help rank 🇺🇸's most climate resilient 🏙️. Read here: usatoday.com/money/homefron…

FACT SHEET: President Biden Announces Over $3 Billion to Reconnect Communities That Have Been Left Behind and Divided by Transportation Infrastructure | The White House whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

The 🇺🇸 is cool! Listen to John Podesta from ⁦The White House⁩ outline 🇺🇸’s 3-pronged action for equitable heat resilience at Global Extreme Heat Summit led by ⁦USAID & ⁦IFRC⁩, including our $1.5B investment to bring natural cooling from urban 🌳 where needed most.

🌳 are Nature’s AC + air filter for our 🏙️. That’s why we MUST plant #TreeEquity for #HealthEquity, including parks like this one in #Detroit where young athletes play. 🙏 ⁦NFL Green⁩ ⁦Detroit Lions⁩ ⁦VerizonGreen⁩ #EarthDay #NFLDraft fox2detroit.com/video/1444937

Hey 🇺🇸, Happy #ArborDay! I’ve got the reason why this Arbor Day is unlike any other thanks to historic 🌲🌳🌲 investments from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law & Inflation Reduction Act. American Forests President Donald J. Trump The White House John Podesta Brenda Mallory Sen. Debbie Stabenow Sen. Cory Booker

Thank you to everyone who tuned in to our #ExtremeHeat Briefing today! A special thank you to our moderator, Joel O. Pannell, Jad Daley for his remarks and our panelists Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman @RepRubenGallego GreenLatinos GroundworkUSA Chispa LCV 🌳Watch it here: bit.ly/4dT61ZJ

Join us for a briefing tomorrow about nature-based solutions in cities. Panel: 🏙️ Peyton Siler Jones, National League of Cities 🏙️ Joel O. Pannell, American Forests 🏙️ Becky Daggett, City of Flagstaff 🏙️ Karen Sughrue, @EPAwater Intro by Rep. Emanuel Cleaver RSVP: ow.ly/Vzrv50RQVx2