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Houston, Texas
Green Space
According to the Trust for Public Land, of the ten most populous cities in the U.S., none has more green space than Houston, with 56,405 acres. Its NeighborWoods public/private partnership to enhance its urban forest has planted more than 14,000 trees in the past three years. The Adopt-an-Esplanade program converts grass space into forest space, transforming vegetation that required mowing and watering into trees, which sequester carbon and reduce the urban heat island effect.
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