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Street tree planting

An Unusual Leadership Style

On an early Monday autumn morning, with leaves changing colors and dropping across the city of New Haven, I found myself driving through The Hill neighborhood in the Urban Resources Initiative (URI) delivery truck, the bed full of 300-pound trees ready to be planted by the Greenskills/EMERGE planting crew. I pulled over to the side […]

Volunteers planting a street tree

From Rainsoaked to One Hundred

Have you ever judged a neighborhood by its trees? I have. Without even realizing it, I’ve felt happy walking down an alley of green trees in the summer, in the filtered light of their giant canopies. I’ve also felt that a block is gloomy or deserted before noticing what makes it that way: the dead, […]