Making the Case: Parks and Health

The National Recreation and Park Association turned to Fifth Estate Communications to build a toolkit that would help members explain the link between parks and community health — especially to to elected officials weighing funding priorities. In a time of tight budgets and community health problems on the rise, it’s crucial that communities understand the direct correlation.
Whether at work, home, shopping, or out for an evening on the town, Americans spend the vast majority of their lives inside one building or another. The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is committed to ensuring that our built environment contributes to the wellbeing of people and the planet through a series of sustainability initiatives.

Trees are the Key

A perplexing challenge has perennially vexed the urban forestry community: With all the benefits we know urban forests provide, what is the most important issue to talk about when we’re trying to draw broad audiences under the urban forest canopy? Four years of work by a national task force convened by the U.S. Forest Service

A Unique Kind of Earth Day

Takoma Park is a famously progressive, environmentally active community in Maryland. And when the city to launch an Earth Day Festival, it turned to Fifth Estate Communications to help make the event a success. Fifth Estate worked with the Old Takoma Business Association to create a family-friendly community event that showcased environmental vendors and local
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