City Trees

Guests on The Plant a Trillion Trees Podcast include arborists, urban foresters and traditional foresters, researchers, landscape architects, tree growers and planters, plant breeders, entomologists and pathol- ogists, legislators and planners, non-profit leaders, authors, carbon crediting specialists, and urban wood recyclers. A guiding concept for the co-hosts is the idea of "rhizomorphic networking." Hal says, "We've observed the lovely connections that often occur: an overlap of science, a root grafting of initiatives, a shared energy of problem-solving from having guests from their respective fields tell their stories." Eva says, "Our guests bring so much interesting knowledge to the table, we often feel like we're taking a master class as we do these inter- views." With listeners in more than 90 countries, The Plant a Trillion Trees Podcast earned the 2022 Silver Medal from Garden Communicators International for Podcast Series Overall. J. Frank Schmidt & Son Co. Director of Communications Nancy Buley says, "I admire the diversity of guests on the show, whose knowledge and varied perspectives help me see and understand the complexity of growing trees in urban settings." One of the most meaningful interviews for Eva was with Dr. Jun Yang, a Professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. "We worked together at Temple University, so following his career has been exciting for me," Eva says. Dr. Yang's research deals with urban for- estry, urban ecology, and ecological remote sensing. His research on the way that the Beijing Olympics affected the reshaping of urban greenspaces in that host city provided the focus for the conversation on The Plant a Trillion Trees Podcast, an episode that proved to be one of the Hal's favorites, too. "An episode that sticks with me was with a young professional, ISA Certified Arborist Jake Handley, working in Asheville, North Carolina," Hal says. >> Episode 45: Dr. Jun Yang is a Professor in the Department of Earth System Science at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. His research deals with urban forestry, urban ecology, and ecological remote sensing. One of his fascinating research papers, "Olympic effects on reshaping urban greenspaces of host cities," dealt with his work with the Beijing Olympics. Dr. Yang also serves as an associate editor for Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. The guest for the first episode of The Plant a Trillion Trees Podcast was Mindy Maslin, founder of Tree Tenders, an important program for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Maslin has trained 5,600 volunteers since the inception of the program in 1991; with her leadership, Tree Tenders has planted 20,000 trees across the region. urban-forestry.com 31 Episode 92: Dr. Ed Gilman is a professor emeritus from the University of Florida and is a principal at Wood Architecture, Inc. He is the author of the seminal Illustrated Guide to Pruning, now in its third edition. Dr. Gilman was awarded the International Society of Arboriculture Award of Merit, the organization's highest honor, for his work. To date, his episode is the most listened to in The Plant a Trillion Trees Podcast catalog.

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