Cool Community plans for Winter Games in 2002.Salt Lake City has become the ninth locality 1. locality - In sequential architectures programs tend to access data that has been accessed recently (temporal locality) or that is at an address near recently referenced data (spatial locality). This is the basis for the speed-up obtained with a cache memory. 2. to join AMERICAN FORESTS' urban energy-saving program, Cool Communities. The Salt Lake City program was publicly launched over the summer at a ceremony dedicating a new affordable housing development. Argyle Court, established by the nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. Salt Lake Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc., an affiliate of the National NeighborWorks[R] network, is the first project to showcase the Cool Communities program in the city. Founded in 1992 as a program of AMERICAN FORESTS American Forests is a nonprofit conservation organization that promotes healthy forests and urban tree planting. The organization was established in 1875 as the American Forestry Association, by physician/horticulturist John Aston Warder and a group of like-minded citizens and the Department of Energy, Cool Communities promotes light-colored surfacing and strategic tree planting to reduce temperatures, energy use, and air pollution in urban areas. Salt Lake City is the first Cool Community to represent the high plains region of the country. As host to the 2002 Winter Olympics, the city will enjoy many of the same opportunities for exposure and education that Atlanta, another Cool Community, has enjoyed over the past two years. For more information, contact local coordinator Camille Russell at 801/364-2122. - Jeff Beattie Teaching Cities To Be Green AMERICAN FORESTS now offers a two-day training workshop on CITYgreen software. Participants learn how to conduct an urban ecological ecological emanating from or pertaining to ecology. ecological biome see biome. ecological climax the state of balance in an ecosystem when its inhabitants have established their permanent relationships with each analysis to quantify Quantify - A performance analysis tool from Pure Software. the benefits of their urban forest and how to communicate their findings in reports and oral presentations. The findings of the analysis can be a powerful public policy tool that demonstrates the tangible, economic value trees bring to our communities. Participants can also conduct a mock <noinclude></noinclude> Wikipedia does not currently have an encyclopedia article for . You may like to search Wiktionary for "" instead. To begin an article here, feel free to [ edit this page], but please do not create a mere dictionary definition. analysis and presentation. For more information, contact me at 202/667-3300 ext. 221. - Cheryl Kollin Help Is on the Way AMERICAN FORESTS' Citizen Forestry Support System is offering tools and models to help community tree-planting groups work together and resolve turf turf: see lawn. turf In horticulture, the surface layer of soil with its matted, dense vegetation, usually grasses grown for ornamental or recreational use. issues, thanks to a grant from the Forest Service and the National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council. This information can be found in the newly published handbook
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