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You just can't top this one, Gavin Newsom. United Nations Environment Programme promises to plant a tree for every person who follows them on Twitter. Check it: "UNEPandYou: Remember, UNEP will plant one tree for every twitterer who follows @UNEPandYou by 5 June, World Environment Day. 3 days to go!" Gimmicky? Very. Legit? Um, let's hope. So far, as of 3:35 p.m., they have 4,446 followers. Might you be one more?

What's going on here?

Do any SFisters out there have American Express cards? If so, use it this week at participating businesses -- or look for the pretty tree icon at right while out and about, and win our city a boat load of trees. Through October 31, each transaction counts as a vote in American Express' "Roots for the City" competition between eight U.S. cities. San Francisco still has a chance to beat out Los Angeles and Atlanta. We cannot let them win (even though maybe they need more trees than we do, since we are so superiorly green, or are we?)! Each city has already won $100,000 for their participation and tree planting projects, and the grand winner will win $300,000. The City and County of San Francisco's Trees for Tomorrow program plans to use the tree-planting grant to create a tree nursery, education and job-training program for at-risk youth that will establish trees to reforest a 20-block greenbelt on Sunset Boulevard.

Charming. The spoiled children high atop the Berkeley redwood have, of course, resorted to (allegedly) throwing their urine and fecal matter at arborists trying to get them down. (Yeah. Fight the power. Idiots.) If you recall, some people under the false impression that they're making a difference have quickly turned an attempt to save a patch of trees into one of Berkeley's most massive protest fails to date. They are scheduled to get ripped from said trees any moment now.

Whether pro or con saving the oak tree grove on the UCB campus, it's safe to say that we're all looking forward to seeing just how how the last few tree-sitters are extracted. This morning, cherry pickers and scaffolding have been fashioned around redwood tree where the last few remaining protesters sit. (And below? Protesters this morning are benignly screaming like children, banging drums, and burning sage. Jesus.) While campus authorities decline to say when or how they plan on getting them down, we're going to go ahead and say tranquilizer darts sometime this afternoon. Stay tuned! (Oh hey, there are 20 some odd magnolia trees ready to be ripped out on Third and Harrison streets in San Francisco, activists. Just so you know.)

After nine months of living in the UC Berkeley oak groves, Dumpster Muffin (AKA Amanda Tierney) finally climbed down yesterday. Alas. The 21-year-old activist, according to ABC 7, was "having troubles standing up," which prompted her surrender. She was then arrested by UC Police for trespassing the moment she touched ground. But! The battle isn't over. Three tree sitters still remain up high for at least another "two weeks, when Cal's lawyers go to court again."