Volunteer Opportunity: Tree Plantings
Coming this February and March, we will be planting tons of trees across Nashville, and we need your help! Trees help reduce storm water runoff, reduce the Nashville’s heat island effect, and beautify our streets and neighborhoods. In addition, by planting tree species that are native to TN, we are helping improve habitats that have been damaged and fragmented by increasing urbanization. We have several sites throughout Nashville that will need to be planted, so please contact Gray Perry if you want to help out. If you have never planted a tree before, visit our page for information on planting, watering, and planting seasons! Please check out our volunteer page for upcoming volunteer opportunities; in addition, if you want a volunteer opportunity for your group or organization, please email Gray Perry or call our office at 615-837-1151.
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Help the Cumberland River at HomeJoin us for our River Talk at 6pm on Thursday, November 9th where Compact staff will share 3 ways you can help the River right from your home. Get information on planting rain gardens, installing rain barrels, and how to adopt your local stream. Don't forget to register by RSVP'ing below. See you there!
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Help us take care of Nashville's urban canopy! Trees are a remarkably effective and low-cost solution to water pollution, so we are working closely with the Nashville Tree Foundation, the city, and other citizen groups to collectively restore Nashville’s tree canopy through the Urban Canopy Maintenance Program—and to plant 500,000 trees between now and 2050. Our objective is to reduce newly planted tree death by 70% by 2020.
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Riviving Walls and WaterwaysHave you seen the latest addition to Nashville's art scene? Thanks to Rivive! Nashville in partnership with the Nashville Walls Project, our city has a new way to appreciate water! The mural by artist Beau Stanton can be found on 5th Ave North and Commerce St. You can help support Rivive! Nashville by taking you photo in front of the mural and tagging #RiviveNash. To find out other ways you can help Rivive! Nashville's waters, visit the website where you can learn more about the campaign, sign up for the newsletter, and find out about volunteer events.
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Taking Care of your Neighborhood Water Nov 9 @ 6:00pmNEW SERIES! You can help take care of the Cumberland River and its tributaries right from your home. Learn from Compact staff about how you can make a difference in your neighborhood by planting rain gardens, installing rain barrels, or adopting your local stream.
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Restoring our Watersheds with Innovative Best Management Pratices Nov 16 @ 12:00pmThis talk will focus on how BMPs can take different forms, be applied in a variety of settings, and contribute to overall watershed health. We will discuss how BMPs can be simple or complex and how they can contribute to attaining nutrient or sediment reduction goals within watersheds. We’ll also focus on Regenerative Stormwater Conveyances, a relatively new type of BMP that is being used with increasing frequency and can address both stormwater quality and quantity issues.
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Let's eat, drink, and be merry!
We are already planning a blow out Holiday party that you will want to add to your calendar. Save the date for Wednesday, December 13, for the Compact's annual Holiday celebration of our friends and supporters.
We hope to see you there!
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