Temple student brings trees back to Philly
Hasan Malik, a civil engineering student at Temple, started Northeast Tree Tenders three years ago because he was tired of looking at all the bare concrete on the streets of Northeast Philadelphia. According to Malik, most of Philadelphia's full-grown trees were planted 60 to 70 years ago and no one has been replacing them. But Malik's group is changing that. Tree Tenders has planted more than 300 trees since 2008. Grants from TreeVitalize, a public/private program to replace the tree canopy in Pennsylvania's metropolitan areas, pay for these services. "It's basically tax dollars at work," Malik said.
May 13, 2011 | NEast Philly.com