Summit pictures

Wendy Morgan, Mary Ann Neely, Laura Patlove, Emily King


Eliza Vermillion, Jennifer Clymer, John Paul Moore, Matt Hollon


Kevin Thuesen, Ray Henning, Elizabeth Walsh, Walter Passmore


Susan Scallon, Margaret Russell, Bhasker Reddi, Scott Rwoin, Chris Riley


Beki Halpin, Gardtner Sumner, Michael Embesi

RE: Clean up comments

Is there anyway we can clean up the postings for the summit. It looks like HTML tags are visible for some groups.

R'

"Plant More Trees!" Group Comments

State of the Urban Forest Summit

Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Research Center

January 9, 2009

Breakout Group:

• Eliza Vermillion (University of Texas, co-organizer of Forest Summit)

• Jennifer Clymer (City of Austin, Austin Climate Protection Program)

• John Paul Moore (Hyde Park Neighborhood/ANC)

• Keith Babberney (Urban Forestry Board, private arborist)

• Linda Guerrero (Parks and Recreation Board, Chair)

• Matt Hollon (City of Austin, Watershed Protection & Development Review)

• Mitzi Cotton (City of Austin, Law Department)

Top Action Items identified by Breakout Group

1. Coordinate people and resources (programs, managing entities, and funding sources) and plant more trees.

2. Consolidate all existing ordinances and rules into one document with educational support materials.

3. Quantify and publicize diverse public and private benefits of Urban Forests.

Selected Option:

1. Coordinate people and resources and plant more trees:

1. Coordinate tree programs between City departments,[1] other agencies,[2] nonprofit organizations, neighborhoods, etc. (who is doing what with what resources).
2. Identify existing tree resources[3] and identify areas for additional tree plantings (e.g., parks, riparian areas, public right-of-way, TxDOT right-of-way, etc.).
3. Plant and maintain trees!

Tree Summit web site:

http://urbanforestsummit.blogspot.com/

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[1] Departments identified: Austin Energy (e.g., Climate Protection Program, Green Building Program), PARD, Watershed Protection & Development Review, Austin Water Utility (e.g., for watering, taps), and Public Works (e.g., Bicycle & Pedestrian Program—interest in shaded areas).

[2] For example, work with Urban Forestry Board’s Tree Oversight Committee.

[3] Seek City Manager and/or City Council to sponsor and support.

to sponsor and support.

"How the City Hurts your Brain" and other articles of interest

Here is a link to the article that Dean Fritz Steiner mentioned at the Summit
The following appeared on Boston.com:
Headline: How the city hurts your brain
Date: Jan 9, 2009

"THE CITY HAS always been an engine of intellectual life, from the 18th-century coffeehouses of London, where citizens gathered to discuss chemistry and radical politics, to the Left Bank bars of modern Paris, where Pablo Picasso held forth on modern art. Without the metropolis, we might not have had the great art of Shakespeare or James Joyce; even Einstein was ..."
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To see this recommendation, click on the link below or cut and paste it
into a Web browser:


http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/01/04/how_the_city_hurts_your_brain?s_campaign=8315

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