Just published "Planting for Posterity" - inspired by the alumni magazine article with the same title. https://giving.upenn.edu/planting-for-posterity/
Philadelphia has a total Tree Equity Score of 84. But 218 neighborhoods, out of 1,329 have a Tree Equity Score under 75. So, for every neighborhood in the City of Brotherly Love to have a score of 75 out of 100, almost a hundred thousand trees (97,712) will be needed to be planted. The city, generally, is doing so well that this is just a 1.8% increase in the tree canopy.
Sources: https://www.treeequityscore.org/reports/place/philadelphia-pa/ i-Tree Landscape, American Forests.
We believe that individual action is necessary - we need to push the large entities (gov't and corporate) but for our own mental health we need to feel engaged in the fight.
I would appreciate your reading about, and sharing your thoughts on, 100KTrees for Humanity
https://symsoil.medium.com/100k-trees-for-humanity-the-plan-835ae4731a11
