STAR: Saving Towns Thru Asset Revitalization

Saving Towns Thru Asset Revitalization (STAR) is a statewide asset-based community development initiative designed to provide urban greenspace activities, projects, and experiences that impact human potential, family development, and community capacity-building. STAR seeks to create greenspace corridors for intergenerational human interaction by cultivating a greater appreciation of the spiritual, psychological, cultural, socio-ecological, environmental, and economic value of the urban forest on human development and well-being.

One of STAR's major poverty outreach initiatives with a treescape focus is The Human Dimensions of Urban/Rural Forestry: Capacity-Building in Alabama's Resource-Limited Communities and Townships.

STAR in Action: Planting Trees & Hope

Faith-Based Gardens

STAR in Action: Disaster Preparedness [pdf]

STAR in Action: Playing and Learning in Natural Settings

STAR's Efforts to Reduce Poverty Rates

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Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Acts of May 8 and June 30, 1914, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, by the Alabama Cooperative Extension System (Alabama A&M University and Auburn University).

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