ABA SEER One Million Trees Project http://www.abanet.org/environ/projects/million_trees/home.shtml

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ABA SEER One Million TreesProjecthttp//www.ab
anet.org/environ/projects/million_trees/home.shtml

• Maki Iatridis, Esq.
• Berg Hill Greenleaf Ruscitti LLP
• www.bhgrlaw.com
• April 28, 2009
• Colorado Bar Association
• Environmental Law Section CLE Luncheon
• Denver, Colorado

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What Is It?

• Planting 1 Million Trees
• by 2014
• Donations to Tree-Planting
• Non-Profit Partners
• Individuals and Groups Planting Trees
• National and International
• Education on the Benefits of Trees

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Why?

• Reduce CO2 Levels
• 1 tree offsets 5000 car miles
• Improve Communities
• 20 increase in urban tree
• loss in last 10 years
• Improve Habitat
• Improve Aesthetics
• Increase Awareness

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• God only knows that lawyers
• have used enough paper
• through the decades writing
• all of those long,
• indecipherable briefs and
• contracts, so I guess its
• appropriate that the
• American Bar Association is
• calling on the nations
• lawyers to help plant one
• million trees in the U.S. by
• 2014.
• Jesse Chambers
• Birmingham Weekly online
• April 30, 2009

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Project Sponsors

• Public Service Project
• ABA Section Of Environment, Energy, and Resources
• Numerous SEER Committees

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Project Sponsors

• Alliance for Community Trees
• American Forests
• Arbor Day Foundation
• TreeLink / TreeBank
• Institute for Environmental Solutions

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What Can You Do

• Donate To Our Partners
• Join A Community Planting Effort
• Plant Your Own Trees
• Educate Yourself and Your Friends
• Easy To Do
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