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People pull garden carts with trees and shrubs along a city street

Moving forest helps Louisvillians see how trees can enhance the city

A parade of trees set to music helped spectators envision a greener, healthier Louisville in a volunteer-powered street activation as part of the city’s PickleY’all Festival.

Ohio River fish caught by citizen scientists show mostly low contaminant levels

Fish caught by Humana Community Day and other volunteer citizen scientists at a Participatory Science Fishing Day at the Falls of the Ohio State Park in August contained safe levels of most contaminants according to rece

Envirome Green Heart Project, tree & shrub landscaping at neighborhood houses

UofL Green Heart Project: residents’ inflammation lower after trees added to neighborhoods

The University of Louisville’s groundbreaking Green Heart Louisville Project has found that people living in neighborhoods where the number of trees and shrubs was more than doubled showed lower levels of a blood marker of inflammation than those