The Grow Boston Greener (GBG) program is a competitive mini-grant program of Boston Natural Areas Network in partnership with the City of Boston that provides funding of up to $2,500 for tree plantings in neighborhoods throughout the City of Boston.
Overview
The Grow Boston Greener program was launched on Arbor Day, April 30, 2007. An inventory of the City's trees showed that Boston had an overall tree canopy cover of 29%. The GBG vision is to plant an additional 100,000 trees by 2020 to increase the urban tree canopy to 35% and make Boston a cooler, cleaner, healthier city. The goals of GBG are to increase tree canopy, mitigate heat island effect, reduce energy consumption, improve air quality and improve storm water management.
Beyond "the simple act of planting a tree" our planting programs focus not only on planting trees, but on the community-based stewardship activities necessary to ensure the trees' survival. To realize the above goals we must not only plant trees, but plant trees that will survive, thrive and that will ensure the unique benefits that a mature, healthy urban forest canopy provides.
Funding
Funding for the GBG program is provided by the support of corporate and philanthropic donors through the Fund for Parks and Recreation in Boston.
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