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Rocky Mountain National Park Tree Study Projects Greener, Cleaner Front Range - May 5, 2008 *NEW
IES Launches Project to Reduce Contaminants in Drinking Water - March 13, 2008
Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association, Denver, issued a press release announcing its support of The Tree Project in November 2007. The press release was posted nationally at the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association web site. Click on “More stories” to find the Tri-State story. --> Download press release - November, 2007
Golden Residents Shaping the City’s 'Urban Forest' - August 17, 2007
IES and The City of Golden Launch Tree Project - May 7, 2007
Tree Study Projects Greener, Cleaner Front Range - February 1, 2007
Announcing a New Executive Director and a New President of The Institute for Environmental Solutions - August 15, 2006
IES Undertakes Innovative Collaborative Project to Tackle the Challenge of Trace Pharmaceutical Contaminants in Wastewater - June 15, 2006
IES Presents Innovative Environmental Solution Strategy to the Consortium for Research and Education on Emerging Contaminants - November 11, 2005
Institute For Environmental Solutions Tree Project Underway - August 4, 2005
Institute For Environmental Solutions Launches New Web Site - May 10, 2005
EarthWorks Expo, Denver Merchandise Mart, June 21, 2008
The Institute for Environmental Solutions (IES) presented a Workshop at this year's EarthWorks Expo at the Merchandise Mart in Denver. IES's presentation, given by Kristen Bertuglia, Desirée Thorp and Ryan Moore, was:
The Right Tree in the Right Place for Environmental Improvement
Did you know that trees are good for the environment? Maybe you did, but did you know that they can be bad for it too? Most trees are planted without considering their environmental costs and benefits. Some trees need a lot of water – a precious resource along the Front Range – while others will sequester tons of carbon over their lifetime and save a home-owner money on their utility bill. IES’s workshop presented the tradeoffs of trees, which species to plant, where to plant them and how to care for them to realize the most benefit.
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Front Range Urban Forestry Council, May 15, 2008 (Aurora, CO)
Environmental Solutions for Foresters – The IES Tree Project
Desirée Thorp and Ryan Moore provided an update on the Tree Project and its goal to identify how trees can be used to optimize energy and water conservation, and air quality.Presentation to the Front Range Urban Forestry Council
IES is a member of GivingFirst, sponsored by the Community First Foundation.
Community First Foundation has created a link between giving and the community. GivingFirst is the Foundation’s online tool designed to encourage charitable giving in metropolitan Denver. This online resource provides vital facts about a nonprofit’s management, finances, and programs and creates a detailed portrait to help donors make informed decisions about their charitable giving.
GivingFirst helps connect donors with causes they care about by sharing consistent, validated data on metropolitan Denver nonprofits. To encourage philanthropy, whenever credit card donations are made through GivingFirst, the Community First Foundation pays the credit card processing fees (through the end of 2008), which typically are three percent per gift. This means that 100 percent of gifts made through GivingFirst.org goes directly to the participating nonprofit. What a great way to ensure your full donation goes to your favorite GivingFirst nonprofit.
Learn more about GivingFirst at www.GivingFirst.org. Your tax-deductible contributions to IES are always welcome. Please contribute via GivingFirst or by mailing a check to IES, 761 Newport Street, Denver, CO 80220-5554.
The IES Board of Directors reaffirmed its commitment to providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment at its meeting in November 2007. The Board's Anti-Discrimination Policy
Please download our 2007 Annual Report for information about
IES' projects, services, supporters, and participants.Also available: 2006 Annual Report -- 2005 Annual Report
Congratulations to IES Associate Trisha Culp on her appointment to the position of Assistant Attorney General, State of ColoradoCongratulations to IES graduate interns, Annmarie Barnes and Ryan Moore, who earned their Master’s Degrees in International Studies from the University of Denver in December 2007. Ryan is now an IES Research Associate, and Annmarie is an Institute Associate.
IES welcomes its newest member of the Board of Directors: Al Gerace. Al is the CEO of Welby Gardens Company in northeast Denver, home of Hardy Boy Bedding Plants. He has been in the commercial greenhouse business for 34 years. Al is an active stakeholder and supporter of IES’s Tree Project. He was instrumental in founding many important local industry trade associations.
After many years of dedicated service, Adam DeVoe and Doug Jeavons stepped down from the Board of Directors. Both will serve as Institute Associates. IES thanks Adam and Doug for their extensive contributions to the Board.
The Tree Project: Integrated Urban Environmental Improvement Through Tree Selection and Management
Find all the details about The Tree Project here.
Emerging Contaminants: Linking Science to Effective Action
Find all the details about the Emerging Contaminants Project here.
Funding
The Laura Jane Musser Fund of Minneapolis awarded a $30,000 grant to IES in support of Emerging Contaminants – Linking Science to Effective Action!
THE LAURA JANE MUSSER FUND encourages communities - whether represented by local governments, state agencies or grass-roots not-for-profit organizations - to use a consensus-based approach to environmental decision-making. This is a collaborative process that strives to involve all key stakeholders as well as local citizens in developing environmental program and policies that satisfy common interests. Programs or solutions developed through a collaborative process often have a better chance of broad acceptance and lasting success than decisions made through more conventional approaches.
Plant-It 2020 awards $5,600 to IES for Trees’ Environmental Benefits Pamphlet
Michael Thau, Executive Director of Plant-It 2020 (www.plantit2020.org) announced in April 2008 a grant to IES for the creation of a community-oriented pamphlet describing the environmental benefits of trees. The new pamphlet will inform homeowners and property owners about the environmental costs and benefits of trees, including carbon sequestration, air quality, energy, water, stormwater and wildlife.Plant-It 2020 is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to properly planting, maintaining and protecting as many indigenous trees as possible worldwide. In addition to replenishing cities and forests, Plant-It 2020 provides educational workshops on forestry issues to thousands of children. Founded by the late Singer John Denver in 1992, reforestation projects in many countries often directly help humanity by increasing crop production, fresh water availability and fuel-wood via dropped branches.
Xcel Energy Foundation awarded The Tree Project $10,000 in November 2007 to support the application of project results in 2008. This is the third grant to IES from the Xcel Energy Foundation. IES recognizes the generous support and leadership in environmental improvement of Xcel. Special thanks to Jim Rhodes and Howard Kiyota of Xcel for their support.
Thanks to Dr. Paul Lander, Water Conservation Specialist, the City of Boulder presented its third annual grant of $5,000 to support The Tree Project in October 2007.
IES received its third annual generous contribution to operations from Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck in October 2007. Thanks to BHFS attorney and IES Associate, Adam DeVoe, for making this possible.
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association contributed $5,000 to The Tree Project to advance research on carbon sequestration in October 2007. See the press release at the top of this page for more details.
IES and The Tree Project thank Al Gerace of Hardy Boy Plants and Country Fair WestWoods Garden Center (Arvada) for the generous donation of three 5-gallon shade trees. The trees were given out in Golden this summer as part of The Tree Project research.
IES thanks C. A. (Tony) Schock, Schock’s Accounting & Tax Service, Fort Collins, for his generous contribution of expert accounting and tax services, 2006 and 2007.
The IES mission is implemented through the generous contributions of IES supporters. IES thanks and honors these individuals and organizations.
2007-2008 Honor Roll of IES Contributors and FundersPlatinum [$15,000 and above]
The Laura Jane Musser Fund, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Xcel Energy Foundation, Denver -IES thanks the Xcel Energy Foundation for its fourth grant in support of The Tree Project!
City of Golden, Colorado (for The Tree Project)Gold [$5,000 - $14,999]
City of Boulder, Colorado (for The Tree Project) - thanks to Paul W. Lander
Plant-It 2020
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Denver – thanks to Barbara Walz
Carol E. Lyons, DenverSilver [$1,000 - $4,999]
Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, Denver
Alana Burrow, Thornton, Colorado
Elizabeth Gardener, Denver
Robert L. Medlock, Fort Collins, ColoradoBronze [$100 - $999]
W. Gale Biggs, Boulder, Colorado
Robert E. Brady, Jr., Lakewood, Colorado
Country Fair Westwoods Garden Center (Arvada, Colorado) and Hardy Boy Plants (in-kind)
Trisha Culp, Denver
Adam T. DeVoe, Denver
Matthew DeVoe, New York, New York
Sally DeVoe, Alexandria, Indiana
Thomas Devoe, Nashville, Indiana
Jennifer Garner, Denver
Al Gerace, Denver
GivingFirst (matching grant)
Kristen Gray, Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Cindy Hanna, Denver
Douglas L. Jeavons, Denver
David W. Knapp, Cupertino, California
Mike Kopcha, Arvada, Colorado
Katharine D. Kurtz, Denver
Schock’s Accounting & Tax Service, Tony Schock, Fort Collins, Colorado (in-kind)
Jake Smith, Minneapolis, Minnesota
John P. Thornton, Littleton, Colorado
James M. Williams, DenverSupporter [up to $99]
Susan Bardwell, Denver
Carolyn Burr, Denver
Anne Farrell, Santa Fe, New Mexico
GoodSearch, LLC, Los Angeles, California
Jean Halloran, Centennial, Colorado
Carleton J. Howard, Boulder, Colorado
Raymond Iversen, Larkspur, Colorado
Michelle Kales, Denver
Karen J. Lewis, Chicago, Illinois
Roland and Amanda Moore, Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Bernice Tarlie, Centennial, Colorado
Heidi Van Huysen, Denver
Rosemary Wormington, Westminster, Colorado
Glen Wilson, Denver
Kizil, Kuche, Xinjiang, China“All things are connected.” Also attributed to Seattle (c. 1784–1866), native American chief of the Dwamish, Suquamish and allied Native American tribes. Letter, 1854, to President Franklin Pierce. Published in Brother Eagle, Sister Sky: A Message from Chief Seattle (1990), according to The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." T. S. Eliot 1888-1965
“What gets measured, gets done. Therefore choose carefully what to measure.” Peter Drucker
“We are the weavers.” Paul Lander, City of Boulder, April 20, 2005.
"Nothing is ever so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon." Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman of Chaillot, 1945."Our roots are much deeper than grass." Adam DeVoe, May 5, 2005.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead, 1901-1978.
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Real and meaningful change comes about when those affected by the change are involved in finding solutions." Todd A. Bryan, 2005.
“A city without trees isn’t fit for a dog.” www.treenet.com.au.“In the process, the participants discover that they must be part of the solutions. They realize their hidden potential and are empowered to overcome inertia and take action. They come to recognize that they are the primary custodians and beneficiaries of the environment that sustains them.” Wangari Muta Maathai, PhD, EBS – Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2004; 2004 Nobel Peace Prize; founder of the Green Belt Movement.
“Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.” Linus Pauling.
"Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity." Horace Mann (1796 - 1859), address at Antioch College, 1859.“We’re probably going to make someone mad.”...
Doug Jeavons (IES Board member): “What are they going to do? Take away our birthdays?!?”"This is REALLY HUGE!" Greg Litus, Tree Project Steering Committee, January 2006
"May the forest be with you." Trees, Water & People, Fort Collins, CO
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