has the largest urban tree canopy of any major city in North America. The Tree Economy follows the forces of development, economics, and politics threatening to erase the defining characteristic of one of America's great cities.

Through the voices of tree activists, arborists, urban designers, elected officials, and developers, filmmaker James Schroeder documents a city at a crossroads.

Come and meet the filmaker James Schroeder as he screens this documentary at The Garden Club at Wild Heaven West End followed by a discusion of the film with Chad Radford from radatl.com.

More on James and his film from Arts ATL:

https://www.artsatl.org/atlanta-filmmaker-explores-the-value-of-the-citys-tree-canopy-in-the-tree-economy/

Chad Radford has written about Atlanta-based music for nearly 30 years. He currently runs the website RadATL, and is the former Music Editor for Creative Loafing. In 2021, he edited The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap. His book, Atlanta Record Stores: An Oral History arrived in 2023.