About Millennium Green

What Is Millennium Green?

Millennium Green will encourage, promote, and recognize the creation of healthier, more livable community environments for the new Millennium. Millennium Green activities include planting and adopting trees and forests, planting and tending gardens, and protecting and adopting special natural resource wonders and treasures. Millennium Green will also serve as a means for highlighting the many worthy environmental endeavors across the Nation now and during the emerging years of the new Millennium.

Millennium Green is a national project of the White House Millennium Council led by the Department of Agriculture in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, Department of Interior, Department of Education, and Department of Justice. Private organizations, companies, and individuals will participate in Millennium Green efforts across the Nation.

Why Millennium Green?

Cities and communities are losing trees, forests, and green open spaces as never before due to rapid and often poorly planned development. Millennium Green celebrates environmental literacy and action at the local community and neighborhood level. We all need to understand and value the important contributions that trees, forests, and green spaces make to our daily lives. Working in our back yards and in our communities, we can each do our part to nurture and care for these precious resources.

Trees, forests, and green spaces filter polluted runoff, making our water safer and cleaner. Trees clean the air and return pure oxygen, helping us all to breathe easier. Trees pay our carbon debt by absorbing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, slowing global climate change. Trees, forests, and green spaces shelter and nourish wildlife from bears to bald eagles, and salmon to salamanders. Trees and green space save us money, reducing the cost of controlling storm-water and naturally cooling overheated cities and homes in the summer.

Trees, forests, gardens, streams, wetlands, and green spaces contribute to our quality of life, build community spirit, and help heal people and communities. Every tree, grove, garden, or green space we plant and care for makes a difference. There is no better time than the new millennium to become involved and set the stewardship example for generations to come.

Millennium Green – A Call to Action

	To volunteer and engage in "hands on" community-based stewardship through planting and tending trees, groves, and gardens, and
	To care for special natural resource wonders and treasures in cities, towns, backyards, schools, and neighborhoods. Special natural resource wonders and treasures include landmark or heritage trees, groves, wetlands, streams, wildlife habitat, etc.

Millennium Green Goals:

	For every person to plant and/or adopt a tree or a garden for the new millennium.
	For every community to identify and protect a heritage tree, grove, or natural wonder or treasure of special significance for the new millennium.
	For every business or corporation to plant and/or adopt a tree or garden, or protect a natural resource wonder or treasure for the new millennium on behalf of every employee or client-working through national, State, and local nonprofit tree planting, garden, and conservation groups.

Global Impact has several planned events for this program.

 

Earth day is on Sunday but we will perform the planting and memorial on Friday.

Global Impact will have a memorial tree planting on Earthday Friday April 20th, 2001 for memorial to our Dear friend Greg Hooton.

Greg was a graduate at WVU in the rehabilitation counseling program, where he dedicated his life to help others with disabilities. Greg become wheelchair bound at 20 years old and still went on to lead a prosperous and even magnificent life until he left us just two years ago after 21 years of battling societies indifferences.  He stood strong against adversity and overcame anything that would have hindered others. Greg did more in his life in those 41 years than most could do in 100. I am proud to have known and know Greg, and call him my friend. He gave inspiration to so many and lifted the hearts of everyone that knew him or met him. He will be in our hearts forever.

 

Earth week

The week before earthday we will have a booth outside the WVU Mountainlair , offering pamphlets and information about Tree  plantings and other events. There will be sign up sheets for cleanups around the county and how to participate in other events.