Reclaiming Lumber from Wood Waste
An early and incisive analysis of rethinking how communities approach the issue of wood waste: lose it [in landfills] or…
The Business Case for Using Local, Fresh-Cut Wood
This report explores the viability of investing in an urban wood processing center in the city of Baltimore. While the…
Tree Box Filters Promote Neighborhood Revitalization
To rejuvenate an uninhabited parcel adjacent to Hartsfield-Atlanta airport, the City of College Park planned to create a new business…
Funding Trees for Health: An Analysis of Funding and Policy Options for Local Governments
American cities spend less than a third of a percent of municipal budgets on tree planting and maintenance, and as…
Santa Monica – The Value of Trees Video
A dynamic video connecting the overall value of trees, both tangible and intangible, to the complexities of urban forest management in…
Business District Streetscapes, Trees, and Consumer Response
Trees positively affect judgments of visual quality but, more significantly, may influence other consumer responses and behaviors. Survey respondents from…
The Influence of Trees and Landscaping on Rental Rates
This study investigates the effect of trees and landscaping on office rental rates, based on a comparison of 85 office…
Shade trees reduce building energy use and CO2 emissions from power plants
Urban shade trees offer significant benefits in reducing building air-conditioning demand and improving urban air quality by reducing smog. The…
Local Economics
Trees in cities are not grown and managed for products that can be bought and sold on markets, but they…
Harvesting Urban Forests
There’s a growing interest across the nation in using downed urban trees as a source of material for urban wood…
Using industrial clusters to build an urban wood utilization program
Metropolitan areas like Minneapolis-St. Paul have strong markets for biomass and landscape mulch. This contributes to the a growing fallen…
Impacts of Community and Urban Forestry
Sustainable communities use land and infrastructure resources efficiently. These kinds of decisions should focus on multi-benefit solutions that include urban…
Employment Remains Strong in Nurseries and Greenhouses
The nursery and greenhouse production sector has significant impacts the Florida’s economy. Total employment impacts of the environmental horticulture industry…
Job Growth in the Green Industry
Plant growers and retailers reported total annual sales of nearly $4 billion, and total employment of 38,657 fulltime and part-time or…
Nursery Trees Contribute to a Growing Economy
The number of nursery and greenhouse farms has increased and grower cash receipts from nursery and greenhouse sales have grown…
Office Worker Performance and the Indoor Environment
Better access to views consistently predicted better workplace performance in due to daylight levels and ventilation, showing that indoor environmental…
Public Value of Urban Forests
Scientific understanding of how urban trees, forests and green space benefit people has expanded substantially in recent years to include…
Economic Value of Urban Forests
The presence of larger trees in yards and as street trees can add from 3% to 15% to home values…
Urban Property Values with Trees
Tree removal on property developments can cost up to $1,000 per tree, but keeping trees on developing property can raise land value by…
The Effect of Forest Conservation Regulation on Property Values
This study suggests that existing regulations on forested real estate provide some potential cost benefits to the development of mixed-use residential housing…
Economic Impact of Green Spaces
The existence of large parks increases the value of properties that are located within close proximity in Pittsburgh. More specifically,…
It’s Okay to Be Average
In East Portland, the average tree count and average nearby tree canopy adds roughly $8,870 to the value of the…
Harvesting the Value of Water: Stormwater, Green Infrastructure and Real Estate
For developers and builders, managing the impact of stormwater is a given: the law requires it. But increasingly, they’ve ceased…
What’s The Value of Tree?
Trees grow property values, but only up to a point. This meta-analysis suggests that property-level tree cover at about 30%,…
Philadelphia’s Green City, Clean Water Plan
Philadelphia, long considered a pioneer in green infrastructure and water, maintains a web site that describes their plan, connects to…