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Arbor Day Tree Planting Celebrated at Swift School
Mission: Create a model green community by working with our neighbors for a sustainable future for ourselves and those generations that follow.
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Activities & Environmental Actions
1) Earth Week Celebrations (More details to come):
*Earth Day: Monday, April 22nd;
*Arbor Day, Friday April 26th;
*Spring Green & Clean: Saturday, April 27th
2) Yard Waste Pick-Up, A City Service: Department of Streets & Sanitation coordinates dedicated bagged leaf and other yard waste collection trucks to assist residents in clearing their yards, parkways, and storm drains of leaf debris. Call 311 to request separate yard waste collection. Trucks will collect the bags and take them to be composted. Yard waste consists of leaves, grass clippings, branches, brush, clippings from shrubbery and garden waste. Yard waste does not include dirt, rocks, or gravel.
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Monarch Butterfly News
The latest numbers for the eastern monarch butterfly population have just been released and posted by Monarch Watch, and there’s some good news to report. The species has experienced a precipitous decline over the last twenty years, but going into 2019 the population is 144 percent larger than last year and higher than it’s been in over a decade. (Go to Focus Area: Parks & Green Spaces for more info)
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Global Climate Change: State of the Sea Level - Highlights:
In 2017, global sea level was 3 inches (77 mm) above the 1993 average—the highest annual average in the satellite record (1993-present).
The pace of sea level rise is accelerating. In many locations along the U.S. coastline, nuisance flooding is now 300% to more than 900% more frequent than it was 50 years ago.
Scientists are very confident that global mean sea level will rise at least 8 inches (0.2 meter) but no more than 6.6 feet (2.0 meters) by 2100.
Courtesy: NOAA Report 2018
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The map shows the location of the monthly meetings on the second Wednesday : 9 to 10 am 5533 North Broadway.
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