Arkansas Times

Solution Tree may not be improving Arkansas schools, but it is raking in the cash

Arkansas has paid an Indiana book company, Solution Tree, tens of millions of dollars for a teacher professional development program that education researchers at the University of Arkansas say has ...
Fast Company

Low-income neighborhoods have fewer trees. Here’s why that’s a problem

The list of benefits that trees bestow on urban neighborhoods is long: People who live near more trees feel younger, are happier, and are healthier. But perhaps one of the most important factors in a ...
Arkansas Times

Solution Tree approved as LEARNS training vendor despite audit, prior lack of results

"Continuous improvement" is not what the data show, but that apparently doesn't matter to ADE. A company who pulled their bid for a multi-year exclusive contract with the state in May has now been ...
NextBigFuture

Grok 3 Agrees that Trillions of Trees Can Fix Climate Change

I finally got XAI Grok 3 to admit that tree planting, if scaled correctly, can be a complete and permanent solution to the CO₂ problem, offsetting all annual emissions and removing historical excess ...
Wired

America’s Billion-Dollar Tree Problem Is Spreading

Fast-growing, drought-tolerant trees are slowly spreading across grasslands on every continent except Antarctica. Given how desperate we are to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, millions of new ...