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WalkBike Worcester | Advocating for cyclists and pedestrians in Worcester, MA | Page 2
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Advocating for cyclists and pedestrians in Worcester, MA. Main Street Central Business District Streetscape Project. Newer posts →. WBW helps WalkBoston celebrate 25 years with Walk the Woo. August 31, 2015. On June 17 we helped our friends WalkBoston. Celebrate their 25th anniversary with Walk the Woo, a 1.5 mile walk exploring walkability in the context of revitalization. Check out WalkBoston’s Storify piece here. Our cosponsors included the City of Worcester, Food and Active Living Policy Council.
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Beetle-resistant Trees
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Reclaiming an Urban Forest. May 18, 2012. What Tree to Plant? You want to plant a tree, but you want to be sure it won’t be attacked by the Asian longhorned beetle. What’s safe to plant? Take a trip to Worcester’s Green Hill Park this spring to visit the new beetle-resistant arboretum. A project of the Worcester Garden Club. Serviceberry ‘Autumn Brilliance’. Amelanchier arborea ‘Autumn Brilliance’. Crataegus crusgalli var. inermis. Fagus sylvatica ‘Dawyck. Pinus strobus ‘Fastigiata’. Green Pillar Pin Oak.
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ALB Infestation
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Reclaiming an Urban Forest. August 2, 2013. Proof Positive: Fewer Trees Mean Higher Temps. In the back of our rock garden, shaded on three sides by arborvitae and neighboring trees, stands a chest-high, white, capped PVC tube with holes drilled along its sides. Beneath the tube is a wooden stake; attached to the stake are two small climate sensors, one at the top and one at the bottom. A Ten-degree Drop in Temp Where Trees are Present. No surprise for anyone who seeks shelter under a tree on a hot summer...
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How Trees Make Our City Livable: WICN-FM Interview with Evelyn Herwitz
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Reclaiming an Urban Forest. February 4, 2013. How Trees Make Our City Livable: Interview on WICN’s “Business Beat”. Thanks to Steve D’Agostino, host of. On WICN 90.5FM, I recently joined with Peggy Middaugh, Executive Director of the Worcester Tree Initiative. For a half-hour conversation about the importance of Worcester’s urban forest. The half-hour program aired Sunday night, February 3, 2013. Enjoy the podcast. Evelyn Herwitz is the author of. Trees at Risk: Reclaiming an Urban Forest. Notify me of f...
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In The Works
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WCG Staff and Board. Community Need and Involvement. Rentals - Available Now. In The Works - Housing Projects. One of our more recent purchases was 7-9 Jaques Avenue, two empty lots on the corner of Jaques and Ethan Allen Street that abut a first time homeowner property. All three properties are located across the street from Chandler Community Elementary School. Site - it currently includes an urban orchard (in partnership with the Worcester Tree Initiative. Progress on Jacques Avenue. This website best...
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Local Food Justice Work | Nuestro Huerto
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A Volunteer-Run Community Farm in Worcester, MA. 2016 CSA Membership Brochure. Camp Street Community Garden. Local Food Justice Work. Youth Summer Gardening Program. Local Food Justice Work. Here are organizations we find doing good work in the area. Contact us if we’ve missed you and do related work! We will be happy to promote your efforts here. We are all in this together. Orcester’s Solidarity and Green Economy Alliance. Greater Worcester Land Trust. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Worcester History
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Reclaiming an Urban Forest. July 4, 2014. Another Worcester First: Independence Day 1776. Joined by town selectmen and Worcester’s Committee of Correspondence which for three years had been nurturing the seeds of rebellion the crowd greeted the words of the Declaration with “repeated huzzas, firing of musketry and cannon, bonfires, and other demonstrations of joy,” according to an account that appeared the following week in Thomas’s newspaper, The Massachusetts Spy. From Chapter Two of. April 26, 2013.
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Tree Care
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Reclaiming an Urban Forest. April 26, 2013. Arbor Day Reminder: Protect Our Urban Forests. It’s been one long, cold spring so far here in Worcester, but the trees are finally in bloom. The Norway and sugar maples that line so many miles of our city’s streets are bursting with pale green flowers. Cylindrical Callery pears shyly show their snowy petals. A few magnolias offer cream and purple blooms to the sky. Proposed in 1872 by Nebraska newspaper journalist and editor J. Sterling Morton. Something more t...
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Asian Longhorned Beetle
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Reclaiming an Urban Forest. August 2, 2013. Proof Positive: Fewer Trees Mean Higher Temps. In the back of our rock garden, shaded on three sides by arborvitae and neighboring trees, stands a chest-high, white, capped PVC tube with holes drilled along its sides. Beneath the tube is a wooden stake; attached to the stake are two small climate sensors, one at the top and one at the bottom. A Ten-degree Drop in Temp Where Trees are Present. No surprise for anyone who seeks shelter under a tree on a hot summer...
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