A tree planter's guide to environmental justice

We might all agree that trees do good things for the air, for shade and for the climate, but we might not all see eye-to-eye on where and how they should be planted in our own backyards. In a recent paper, North Carolina State University researchers described a series of strategies to guide tree planting, greening or park planning efforts to ensure they aren’t unintentionally imposing values on people and perpetuating practices that have oppressed people of color and Indigenous groups in the past.

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