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Highlights
Texas Trees Foundation and our Community Engagement Partners at MIG, Inc. Take Home GOLD in Community Engagement Award!
In August, the Southwestern Medical District Urban Streetscape and Park Project at Texas Trees Foundation was honored to receive the top award in the Public Outreach category for the American Planning Association – TexasChapter’s annual awards. This award honors an individual, project, or program that uses information and education about the value of planning to […]
City of Dallas Urban Heat Island Mapping Campaign
We wanted to share a special thank you to the City of Dallas for inviting the Foundation to collaborate in the study! Last month, Texas Trees Foundation was invited by the City of Dallas to collect surface temperature data for the City of Dallas’ Urban Heat Island Mapping Study. Our goal was to evaluate temperatures […]
SWMD Best Practices Advisory Committee
Modeling Collaboration and Innovation We have invited experts from across the country to push us to think beyond the boundaries of standard design and operating procedures. They bring knowledge from different disciplines to ensure we are incorporating best practices and using state of the art approaches.65 national experts representing 50 different organizations have given their time […]
Equitable Engagement: SWMD Project
You Spoke, We Heard! Phase 1 of the Equitable Engagement component is complete and the Texas Trees Foundation is thrilled to release the Phase 1 Equitable Engagement Summary for the SWMD Urban Streetscape Project!This document covers all of the engagement activities that we have conducted this year – from virtual community questionnaire to door-to-door canvassing. […]
SWMD Transformation Latest Media
Since the project's inception, local and state media coverage have helped to tell the story and highlight the progress of the SWMD Streetscape and Park Transformation Project. Because of its use of evidence-based design, the project is poised to "...teach the rest of the country how to design for urban heat... [starting] with data."-Jeffrey Ray, CBS DFW Meteorologist
