One Neighborhood, 90 Trees, and an 82-Year-Old Crusader

Photo of Ed Rodriguez, a volunteer who has worked with Yale-affiliated Urban Resources Initiative plant dozens of trees in his Fair Haven neighborhood in New Haven, CT
August 30, 2023

Ed Rodriguez, who volunteers with the Yale-affiliated nonprofit Urban Resources Initiative, has spent years planting street trees in New Haven and persuading his neighbors to do the same. The New York Times recently profiled Rodriguez for his years-long crusade to bring beauty—and shade—to his neighborhood of Fair Haven.

Read more in The New York Times.