Thanks for the hard-work Monique and Annabel! While summer is the slow season for the Foundation, the time with our interns felt like it went by in a flash! We truly appreciate our two summer interns, Monique G. and Annabel C., for all the work they put in with Texas Trees and the energy they […]
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We were thrilled to have Ericsson volunteers come out to the TXU Energy Urban Tree Farm and Education Center! These volunteers got in their daily workout at the tree farm while they helped pull weeds, move potted trees to the staging area, and put together and installed drip lines for tree irrigation system. It was
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TXU Energy Urban Tree Farm & Education Center A group of volunteers from Coalfire joined us at the TXU Energy Urban Tree Farm and Education Center to lend a helping hand with the tree irrigation lines and stabilization system. These volunteers helped move some of the smaller trees planted by Girl Scouts onto the staging
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Over 650 trees were planted at Bob Woodruff Park (South) by partners and volunteer groups including City of Plano, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, FedEx, Alliance Data, Verizon, Capital One, and Harley-Davidson Financial Services! With just over 40 volunteers of all ages, we finished off the last part of the Bob Woodruff Park planting partnership!
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Planting more than 50 trees at Running Bear Park in Irving was no sweat (figuratively speaking) for our incredible team of volunteers from Verizon, Hilton Anatole Dallas, and the City of Irving employees. A special thanks to Groundwork Dallas for digging the holes in preparation for our volunteers. Spirits were high, just like the temperature was,
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There was a meeting of the minds to brainstorm design plans for the “Green Heart” and “Green Spine” areas of the Southwestern Medical District Urban Streetscape Master Plan project at the Architecture and Design Exchange with the collaboration of DFW American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), Dallas American Institute of Architects (AIA), American Planning Association,
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Ready for one of their favorite days of the year, “field day,” students welcomed us with a song performance and tree facts as we came together to celebrate their “Cool Schools” program at Tom C. Gooch Elementary School. We had a great time at Gooch Elementary as students performed ‘Let it Grow’ from Dr. Seuss’s
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Thanks to coordination by the Communities Foundation, iStation volunteers joined us at our TXU Energy Urban Tree Farm & Education Center where they helped prune and water trees before it got too hot. We had a great time with this team of volunteers, clearing low-lying branches that improved the visibility and conditions of trees. While
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Dan D. Rogers Elementary celebrated their ‘Cool Schools Community Parks’ with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, where we also unveiled the site-plans for the other ‘Cool School Community Parks’ which include: S.S Conner Elementary School, Tom C. Gooch Elementary School, C.A. Tatum Jr. Elementary School, and Boude Storey Middle School. Thanks to public-private partnerships with Dallas Park
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On a hot, summer day, volunteers from Acumen Solutions joined us at the TXU Energy Urban Tree Farm and Education Center where they did a great job re-potting the Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas’ tree seedlings, watering trees, and pruning low-lying branches in the forest at Richland College. Although summers are typically not suitable for
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