TAMPA, Fla., Nov 23, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Some 75 volunteers from CSX and City Year, the Alliance for Community
Trees, Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful and the City of Tampa Parks & Recreation
planted 56 guava, orange, jacaranda, pecan, Poinciana, cassia and plum
trees from 8 a.m. - 12 noon on Saturday, November 19, 2011, along the
Nuccio Parkway Greenway at North Nebraska Avenue towards East 7th,
as part of the railway's "Trees for Tracks" program. The event was the
second of two "Trees for Tracks" events in Central Florida scheduled on
back-to-back weekends. On November 12, 75 volunteers planted 50 trees at
Southport Community Park in Orlando, Fla. For more information on these
projects, go to http://www.beyondourrails.org/calendar.
CSX Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Fla., is one of the nation's
leading transportation companies, connecting customers to ports,
distribution centers and markets across the eastern United States.
Through grass-roots volunteerism and focused corporate giving, CSX is
committed to supporting the communities where it operates. City Year, a
nonprofit AmeriCorps national service organization is dedicated to
building democracy through citizen service, civic leadership and social
entrepreneurship. The Alliance for Community Trees (ACT) is dedicated to
improving the environment where 80% of Americans live--cities, towns and
metropolitan areas. Together, local ACT member organizations have
planted 15 million trees with help from 10.7 million volunteer hours
nationwide.
The tree planting was part of a big environmental action weekend effort
that included the Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful Hillsborough River &
Waterways Cleanup on the same day. CSX, City Year and Alliance for
Community Trees volunteers joined the Keep Tampa Bay Beautiful event
kickoff before moving to the Nuccio Parkway service site. The tree
varieties were selected for their ability to thrive and provide color
and utility to the site.
CSX is proud to sponsor organizations like City Year and ACT, in their
efforts to improve parks, schools, recreational centers and other public
places in the many types of rural, suburban and urban communities that
CSX connects and serves. In September, the railway was added to the Dow
Jones Sustainability Index for its achievements in environmental
performance, including reaching ahead of schedule the company's
voluntary goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by eight percent and
its "Trees for Tracks" program to plant one tree for each of the 21,000
miles of CSX track.
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SOURCE: CSX Corporation
for CSX Corporation
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