It s Arbor Day, Michiganders.
Arbor Day, a day dedicated to public tree-planting and celebrated every last Friday in April, was first featured in the 15th animated TV special It s Arbor Day, Charlie Brown in 1976 based on the Peanuts comic strips created by the late Charles M. Schulz, also known as Sparky. The Peanuts Arbor Day special, that was done decades ago, and it just seemed kind of like a natural fit to work with the Arbor Day Foundation, said Melissa Menta, senior vice president of marketing and communications for Peanuts Worldwide. Sparky sort of created social media way back before social media existed. If you look at the comic strip, it s a four-panel, bite-sized message. The Arbor Day messages of planting trees were actually in the strip long before our partnership with Arbor Day (Foundation).
Mayor Weinberger and partners plant trees in the Old North End
Vermont Business Magazine Mayor Miro Weinberger announced that the City of Burlington received a $20,000 TD Green Space Grant from TD Bank Group (TD) and the Arbor Day Foundation to support innovative urban greening and tree planting projects in Burlington.
The City of Burlington plans to use the grant to plant 210 trees the Old North End. Burlington was one of 20 U.S. and Canadian cities selected to receive a grant.
Today, Mayor Weinberger will joined City Arborist V.J. Comai, Burlington Parks, Recreation and Waterfront Director Cindi Wight, and members of Branch Out Burlington to plant trees at 711 Riverside Avenue.
In fact, some political experts thought we’d lose two.
“We’ve lost two or more seats every Census since 1950,” said Dan Lamb, lecturer in Cornell’s Institute for Public Affairs. “This is a break in the trend line that’s positive for New York. We’re not losing as much clout as we have in prior cycles.”
Losing only one representative seemed to be good news for the Empire State, until we heard that the difference between losing one seat and keeping our 27 representatives came down to fewer than 100 people filling out the census last year.
Yes. If 89 more people had responded to the once-a-decade nationwide count, we would have kept our seat in the House.
University Park campus earns distinction for campus forest management for a fifth consecutive year
Penn State s University Park campus is home to more than 17,000 trees, including over 200 species. Image: Michelle Bixby
Penn State earns 2020 Tree Campus Higher Education recognition
April 20, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. For the fifth consecutive year, Penn State’s University Park campus has been honored by the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective campus forest management. The campus recently garnered a 2020 Tree Campus Higher Education recognition by the foundation.
“From providing shade and instilling beauty, to storing carbon and recycling stormwater, the trees around campus offer innumerable benefits to people, animals and ecosystems,” said Bill Sitzabee, Penn State’s vice president of facilities management and planning and chief facilities officer. “The recognition from the Arbor Day Foundation is icing on the cake.”