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and interestingly is a strong supporter of strategic tree planting in the region as a way to reduce energy use. ef On day two, I met one of Sacramento's Urban Forestry crews as they were working on a street where trees had been damaged by a storm. The work was being performed by four employees and two trucks, including an aerial lift and a chipper coupled to a chip box truck. The employees were making fast work of the job with one person operating the lift and pruning the tree, one person managing traffic control, and two people moving fallen brush to the chipper. The work is accomplished with far fewer workers than in Rio de Janeiro, where much of the work is done manually. On the same street I saw new young trees of a species we also use in Rio de Janeiro, staked with tree ties that are more breakage resistant than what we currently use. In the following weeks when Joe was able to come to Rio, he brought me examples of tree ties to see if I could procure them there. We returned to Joe's office to talk more with the Urban Forestry team about the challenges of planting and maintaining big trees in cities and how pests are managed. Sacramento uses closed systems exclusively and trees are treated by soil or ground injection of pesticides when other natural remedies are not possible. Next we paid a visit to the Sacramento Tree Foundation, where I was introduced to Executive Director Ray Taking in Old Sacramento Tretheway. The foundation has been planting trees in the metropolitan region of Sacramento since 1982, in great part sponsored by SMUD in an effort to reduce energy consumption. I met several staff members working San Francisco's Conservatory of Flowers 34 City Trees