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Los Angeles community organizer reflects on working for park equity during COVID-19

May 10, 2021

Trust for Public Land community organizer Dayana Molina has worked in our Los Angeles office for four years, helping residents plan and care for the parks and open spaces they need and deserve. But she says little in her background prepared her for the challenges that people in South Los Angeles...

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Lynn Haven Bayou Park and Preserve

The Deepwater Horizon environmental and economic disaster of April 2010, is considered the largest environmental disasters in the United States. For its role in the disaster, BP quickly agreed to pay $1B into the Early Restoration Natural Resource Damage Assessment, later agreeing with the U.S. Department of Justice and the five impacted Gulf states to an overarching $20.8 billion settlement in 2015. The Trust for Public Land partnered with Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) to invest over $15 million of these Early Restoration funds to create Lynn Haven Bayou Park and Preserve. Additionally, FDEP and the City have entered into a 10-year operations and maintenance agreement for another $3.5M. 

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A challenge inspired by the legacy of a remarkable conservationist

January 12, 2021 | 2 comments

As a boy, Charles Gresham accompanied his dad on a drive along Highway 1 through Big Sur, a 70-mile stretch of steep mountains along the central California Coast. The year was 1936, and the highway had just opened to cars, making Gresham and his father among the first motorists to complete what...

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Ten ways parks can foster more welcoming communities

December 4, 2020

Everybody needs a place to call home, where we feel like we belong and are welcome. But today, too many of our neighbors experience exclusion, isolation, harassment, and even violence on the basis of their identity. 

When we welcome and include everyone who calls America home, we bring...

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The Camden parks and open space plan

Communities that prioritize outdoor access for all are healthier, more equitable, and more resilient. The Trust for Public Land and Cooper’s Ferry Partnership collaborated with a core group of partners from the City of Camden, Camden County Parks Department and the Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority to develop the Camden Parks Plan. This is a roadmap to put safe, quality outdoor spaces within a ten-minute walk of every Camden citizen while absorbing stormwater and advancing park equity.

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In a neighborhood with a divided past, parks are "common ground"

October 13, 2020

This fall, we’re celebrating all the ways parks unite us: with one another, with our neighborhoods, and with the world. In one Philadelphia neighborhood, the goal of creating a healthy, welcoming public park united neighbors who worked together to overcome...

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New parks in southern Dallas? “It’s about time!”

September 22, 2020 | 2 comments

For years, students at Dallas’s South Oak Cliff High School went to class in grim conditions. “The roof leaked, asbestos was everywhere, drinking water came in lead pipes, the heating and air conditioning didn’t work,” says Derrick Battie, head of the South Oak Cliff alumni association. “Our...

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Parks and the Pandemic

Parks and the Pandemic: Report

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored that close-to-home parks are crucial to a community’s quality of life. During this crisis, people have turned to their parks like never before—for fresh air, exercise, meditation, solace, and a much-needed break from the stresses of a quickly changing world.

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School's Out

School's Out: new report explores the benefits of taking learning outside

As families count down to the first day of school, one thing is for certain: the 2020-2021 school year will be unlike any other in our collective lifetimes. The COVID-19 pandemic has put educators and school administrators between a rock and a hard place: bring kids back to the classroom, where experts say that all will be at high risk of virus transmission, or continue with distance learning, which experts agree compromises educational outcomes and accelerates inequality.

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The hazards of park disparities during heat waves

August 6, 2020 | 3 comments

A heat wave swallowed much of the Eastern seaboard late last month, breaking temperature records from New Hampshire to Virginia, and further straining public health and healthcare systems that are already stretched thin by the coronavirus.

The heat is on

Even in normal...

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