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The city of Cleveland is trying to address two big problems at the same time: climate change and racial and economic disparities.
On the corner of East 123rd Street and Imperial Avenue, in Cleveland, Shirley Bell-Wheeler watches over a community garden with freshly planted raspberries, purple asparagus, and a little apple tree. Trees are trees, but fruit trees are just better, she says with a hearty laugh. Bell-Wheeler is a full-time teacher aide, part-time gardener, and the guardian of all green things in this neighborhood. She wishes there were more of them. In other neighborhoods, say suburban neighborhoods, you would see a big beautiful tree on every tree lawn, she says, referring to the strip of land between the sidewalk and curb.
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