Yale Experts Explain Climate Anxiety
Yale University – March 13, 2023
https://sustainability.yale.edu/explainers/yale-experts-explain-climate-anxiety
Climate change anxiety and mental health: Environmental activism as buffer
Current Psychology – February 28, 2022
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Book Recommendations
Presentations Please do not share these presentations online or without the permission of their authors!
Scott Courtright’s Presentation The Urban Canopy and its Relationship to Man
Dr. Susan Simard’s Ted Talk (recommended by Scott Courtright)
Most deforested city in US
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120223104023.htm
http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/02/new_orleans_shows_steepest_dro.html
Native Gardens
Back to the wild: how ‘ungardening’ took root in America by
Hospitals, healing and nature
How Hospital Gardens Help Patients Heal by Deborah Franklin
Video: How trees clean our air
https://www.google.com/#q=how+to+trees+clean+air&kpvalbx=1
Trees and crime
http://lhhl.illinois.edu/crime.htm
https://depts.washington.edu/hhwb/Thm_Crime.html
http://environment.yale.edu/envy/stories/trees-shed-bad-wrap-as-accessories-to-crime#gsc.tab=0
https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/news/2010/11/city-trees.shtml
Subsidence and Water Table
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JB012636/full
http://www.nola.com/homegarden/index.ssf/2015/02/shifting_doorframes_cracking_d.html
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/125574/trees-can-raise-groundwater-table.html
Stormwater
http://forestsforwatersheds.org/reduce-stormwater/
Trees and Hurricanes
The Department of Parks and Parkways
Tree planting permit: https://nola.gov/nola/media/One-Stop-Shop/Parks%20and%20Parkways/PP-Tree-Planting-Permit-Application.pdf
Planting guidelines: https://nola.gov/nola/media/One-Stop-Shop/Parks%20and%20Parkways/PP-Neutral-Ground-and-Public-Greenspace-Planting-Guide.pdf
Concrete Removal
The Front Yard Initiative Program for concrete removal – The Urban Conservancy
Mastodonte Construction for concrete removal: Email: info@lamastodonte.com. Phone: 504 264 1352.
Green Way, Inc. Concrete Removal contact information: Phone: 504 469- 4424. Email: greenwaylawninc@yahoo.com
Tree Maintenance
LSU AgCenter’s Native Tree Guide
Why we are opposed to purchasing Cypress Mulch
Staking Your Trees
Do your trees look like they are leaning heavily? We recommend giving them a hand! Stakes can be found at Home Depot, for about $4 each, as well as garden tie to secure the stakes. Here are some handy instructions for the how-to, as well as when to remove stakes from your tree.