In summer 2019, Madison's Urban Forestry Task Force recommended doubling our city canopy as a primary method of fighting climate change and maintaining quality of life. The New York Times reported a new study suggests planting trees and restoring forests worldwide could help reverse global warming. Clearly, our communities and our planet could benefit from more trees. We want to provide you with options to support the effort.
Urban Tree Alliance
We also have been volunteering with the Urban Tree Alliance and Jeremy Kane to plant trees here in Madison, mainly at schools. We love supporting their efforts because they are focused on planting in parts of the city that needs trees the most such as schools, playgrounds and parts of the city with poor canopy cover. Follow this link to learn more about their organization and how you can help.
Team Trees
Of course, a teenager had to be the push to get the adults to have a look. Team Trees is an effort to plant 20 million trees by 2020 and they are working with the Arbor Day Foundation to make that come true. Watch this video about their collaboration to learn more. Heartwood was impressed so we put some money into their efforts. We really liked the effort and wanted to join, but we also wanted to give funds more locally.
