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10.7.09
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Last days to experience artist Katie Holten's extraordinary Tree Museum.
Every year, 20 million trees are cut down to supply virgin paper for books. That's for the U.S. alone. Eco-Libris is a green business devoted to offsetting that loss. It partners with bookstores across the country so that when you check out, you can pay for a tree to be planted in a developing country – an elegantly green solution. In the city, only the Strand is an Eco-Libris partner.
Over 250,000 trees have been planted so far as part of the City's MillionTreesNYC initiative, launched by the Mayor and Bette Midler.
You can help in the effort to plant 20,000 trees in 15 locations
on October 24th by volunteering here.
There's a terrific book called New York City Trees, written and illustrated by Edward Sibley Barnard (Columbia University Press, $17.95). Learn about the Hangman's Elm in Washington Square Park, thought to be over 300 years old, where they hanged traitors during the Revolution, the tree in Brooklyn celebrated by poet Marianne Moore, and info on everything from Callery pears to Kentucky Coffeetrees.
The oldest tree in New York?
    
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