Below is some reading material we've come across about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and especially how it plays out in the workplace. We encourage you to read and think about how this could affect your organization. Green 2.0 Leaking Talent – How People of Color...
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Funding for FY 2019-20 State Budget
Urban forestry, urban greening, and other natural resources investments gained ground yesterday in the ongoing discussion of project priorities within the next Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) Expenditure Plan. In the Assembly Budget Subcommittee for Resources,...
Green Gentrification Panel Presentation
Panel from the 2018 Partners in Community Forestry Conference Facilitator: Cindy Blain, Executive Director, California ReLeaf, Sacramento Speakers: Winifred Curran, Associate Professor & Chair, Dept. of Geography, DePaul University, Chicago Enrique Huerta,...
Community-Based Social Marketing & Overcoming Barriers in Tree Care
TreePeople and Koreatown Youth and Community Center (KYCC) presented about how they used the Community-Based Social Marketing approach to engage an environmental justice community in southeast Los Angeles County to water and care for newly-planted street trees. Common...
Facilitating for Difference Resources
This year we hosted two Facilitating for Difference workshop, led by Amanda Machado and Jose Gonzalez. Here are the resources they passed along for further learning. Resources provided by Amanda Machado & Jose GonzalezApproaches to Power Inequities – Moving to a...
Re-Oaking California
Re-oaking your community: 3 ways to bring oaks back to California cities by Erica Spotswood Could restoring native oak trees to cities create a beautiful, functional, and climate-adapted urban forest for our children? In the newly released report “Re-oaking Silicon...
Supporting Ourselves as Community Activists
Supporting Ourselves as Community Activists - with the work of Joanna Macy Based on eco-philosopher Joanna Macy’s books, “The Spiral of the Work that Reconnects” and "Coming back to Life," Adélàjà Simon and Jen Scott facilitated a session of empowering dyad exercises...
How to Use ReLeaf’s Twitter Lists
Have you ever used Twitter Lists? Lists are an AMAZING way to filter which tweets you’re scanning. For example, you can click on the ReLeaf Network list (once you've subscribed to our list) and then you'll see only ReLeaf Network member organization posts. A good way...
Growing the Canopy: Racial Justice
Presentation with Leo Buc of Common Vision (August 2016) Watch the video: See the PowerPoint presentation (PDF format):
Get your Tree Care Cue Cards!
The Urban Tree Foundation has produced a series of “cue cards” with basic information related to various aspects of tree care, including: Tree Planting Tree Quality Tree Training (Pruning) Root Management Structural Pruning Restoring Topped Trees Pruning at Planting...