STAR Programs
No Child Left
Inside
Can Urban Extension
Help the Apple of Dad's Eye?
Planting Trees
and Hope
Professor Wangari
Muta Maathai: An International STAR
The Merry Month
of May at the SOD Festival
Will Allen:
CEO Growing Power Star
Phillip
Carter
Urban Regional Extension Agent,
Houston & Dale Counties
Honey
Bee Preservation: Learning About the Natural World in the Wiregrass
Area (.doc)
Tree
City USA
Jerry
Chenault
Urban Regional Extension Agent,
Lawrence & Morgan Counties
Using
Faith Gardens as a Resource for Quiet Time
Traditional
Street Games and Intergenerational Family Connections
Tree
City USA
Michael
McIntyre
Urban Regional Extension Agent,
Mobile & Baldwin Counties
Aquatic
Impact (.doc file)
Tree
City USA
Roosevelt
Robinson
Urban Regional Extension Agent,
Montgomery, Autauga, & Elmore Counties
Getting
Families Outside: Promoting the Eastern Bluebird Recovery Project
Tree
City USA
Fact
Sheets (.pdf files)
Fire
Prevention (.doc files)
Video
A
Celebration of
Environmental Education
by
the No Child Left Inside Coalition
Websites
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Revitalizing neighborhoods one tree at a time...
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The vision of
STAR is to leave no Alabama community behind!
STAR Takes Action!
The goal of STAR is to strengthen nature-based
opportunities for intergenerational families across the urban
and rural interface in underserved communities. STAR strives
to:
- Utilize the Tree City USA program for
asset-based community development;
- Integrate research from social work
and social sciences into green space projects;
- Promote greening endeavors as a "gateway"
to community and economic revitalization;
- Develop campaigns to underwrite urban
and rural green space initiatives;
- Identify green design features that
enrich nature appreciation for families and communities; and
- Develop strategies to promote benefits
of outdoor leisure pursuits and healthy eating habits.
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS--Are
You Ready?
Disaster Preparedness
Disaster Preparedness
Are You Prepared?
Make a Resolution to Protect the Environment
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A new year has begun and once again we
commit ourselves to new resolutions, most of which are personal
such as weight control, saving more money, or trying to accomplish
what we promised to do in 2009. But how often do we include the
environment or make a commitment to conserve our natural resources
in our annual resolutions? In 2010, let us make a promise to
participate or to engage in more eco-friendly endeavors.
For example, there are numerous environmental
groups in Alabama's Gulf Coast region that are responsible for
assessing needs, empowering and connecting communities, monitoring
environmental conditions, and restoring land and wildlife habitat.
These Gulf Coast conservation groups help to protect the Mobile
Bay, surrounding rivers, and the wildlife that inhabit this region.
However, there are similar organizations in Alabama that have
comparable agendas based on their geographic terrain and purpose.
Another option is to observe environmental
global events in your community such as World Water Monitoring
Day, World Environment Day, Arbor Day, or World Water Day just
to name a few. The Alabama Cooperative Extension System's Saving
Town through Asset Revitalization is a program devoted to new
and exciting environmental programs as the need arises, which
includes the Urban Natural Resources Fair that began in 2009.
For more information on how you can be
a part of these events and other activities, please contact Urban
Regional Extension Agent Michael McIntyre at 251-259-1265 or
mnm0001@aces.edu.
By Michael McIntyre
Urban Regional Extension Agent
Mobile & Baldwin Counties
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How STAR Works
STAR accomplishes its goals and objectives
by:
- Utilizing tree and people practice delivery
approaches, including modalities from the horticulture therapy
field to develop impact measures that support existing research
in human and social sciences.
- Incorporating the interplay between
expressive arts and traditional street games into greening activities
that enhance neighborhood social ties.
- Seeking opportunities to "freeze"
or institutionalize work through collaborations with civic and
governmental leaders in all phases of the design process.
- Using Alabama Five-Year Urban and Community
Forestry Plan as a key component of the data base for planned
green space development activities and
capacity-building initiatives.
- Establishing partnerships with statewide
and national advocates of lifelong leisurely pursuits for intergenerational
families.
- Establishing partnerships with local
litter control, beautification, and tree boards as well as other
committees, clubs, or groups involved in arbor advocacy.
- Utilizing culturally-sensitive outreach
to intergenerational clientele through traditional and nontraditional
outreach strategies.
- Focusing macro (organizations, neighborhoods,
and municipalities) practice interventions on clientele assets
for planned change.
- Utilizing proven fundraising tools through
community training and professional development programming.
- Supporting integration of beautification,
litter, and arbor projects with municipal economic development
and tourism efforts.
- Staying abreast of macro-level community
development, asset analysis, visioning and fundraising professional
development opportunities.
- Emphasizing human dimensions of green
space development as a quality of life issue through demonstrations,
projects, training programs, and public education.
- Working with media to present information
on human dimensions of green space on human functioning and capacity-building.
- Promoting arbor celebrations, Tree City
USA status, greening efforts, and rekindling hope proactive projects
in high-risk neighborhoods and municipalities.
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For more information
about STAR, please contact:
Marilyn Simpson-Johnson,
LGSW
Extension Family Welfare Specialist
Co-Coordinator, Saving Towns Through Asset Revitalization,
Forestry, Natural Resources & Wildlife Management
Urban Affairs & New Nontraditional Programs
Alabama A&M University
Normal, AL 35762
(256) 372-4961 office
(256) 698-1429 cell
E-mail: johnsmj@aces.edu
Last
Updated: February 21, 2011
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