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Greening Southside Richmond

Chesapeake Bay Foundation

In formerly redlined neighborhoods, how can trees bring peace, provide health benefits, and reduce pollution?

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April 9, 2021, Chesapeake Bay Foundation

In formerly redlined neighborhoods, how can trees bring peace, provide health benefits, and reduce pollution?

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Community, Volunteers Kick Off Southside Greening Effort

VPM

Volunteers and community members planted 50 trees at Swansboro Park on Saturday. They dug holes, spread mulch and watered the new additions around the mostly empty field.

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March 14, 2021, VPM

Volunteers and community members planted 50 trees at Swansboro Park on Saturday. They dug holes, spread mulch and watered the new additions around the mostly empty field.

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Williams: Climate equity is a social justice issue. Four Richmond nonprofits with a federal grant are building resiliency

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Black lives matter to the extent that green life flourishes around us. But Richmond and other cities, by design, planted people of color in less verdant neighborhoods.

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October 9, 2020, Richmond Times-Dispatch

Black lives matter to the extent that green life flourishes around us. But Richmond and other cities, by design, planted people of color in less verdant neighborhoods.

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Bringing Greenery to Richmond’s Hottest Neighborhoods

RVA Magazine

The Greening Southside Richmond Project is looking to tackle the issues of extreme heat and socioeconomic disparities caused by racist, discriminatory housing practices in Richmond’s vulnerable neighborhoods — one tree at a time.

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October 7, 2020, RVA Magazine

The Greening Southside Richmond Project is looking to tackle the issues of extreme heat and socioeconomic disparities caused by racist, discriminatory housing practices in Richmond’s vulnerable neighborhoods — one tree at a time.

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Richmond Tree Initiative to Combat Heat, Pollution, Inequity

Chesapeake Bay Magazine

A new project in Richmond will tackle three big issues—excessive heat, pollution, and redlining— with one simple solution: planting trees.

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September 7, 2020, Chesapeake Bay Magazine

A new project in Richmond will tackle three big issues—excessive heat, pollution, and redlining— with one simple solution: planting trees.

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Editorial: New tree project will add green spaces in hottest neighborhoods

Richmond Times-Dispatch

On Aug. 24, The New York Times published a report titled, “How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering.” The study outlined how in the 1930s, city planners and federal officials redlined lower-income and Black neighborhoods across the nation, marking them as likely investment risks.

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September 3, 2020, Richmond Times-Dispatch

On Aug. 24, The New York Times published a report titled, “How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering.” The study outlined how in the 1930s, city planners and federal officials redlined lower-income and Black neighborhoods across the nation, marking them as likely investment risks.

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Nonprofits to plant 650 trees in formerly segregated neighborhoods impacted by extreme heat

Richmond Times-Dispatch

In the sea of asphalt and low-slung strip mall buildings along Jefferson Davis Highway, it’s nearly impossible for pedestrians to find a shady place to cool off on a hot day.

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September 2, 2020, Richmond Times-Dispatch

In the sea of asphalt and low-slung strip mall buildings along Jefferson Davis Highway, it’s nearly impossible for pedestrians to find a shady place to cool off on a hot day.

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