Grow Boston Greener

Come get involved with Grow Boston Greener, a campaign to plant 100,000 new trees in the city by the year 2020. By increasing the city's tree canopy cover by 20%, Grow Boston Greener will make our city a healthier place to live and visit, improving air quality, shading and cooling our neighborhoods, and lowering energy consumption (and therefore carbon emissions). At the same time, the initiative will make Boston a safer, stronger city by providing beautiful spaces for families and neighbors to meet.

This effort is a collaboration between the City of Boston, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the U.S. Forest Service and Boston's Urban Forest Coalition. To find out more, you can read the press release or visit the Grow Boston Greener website to learn how you can get a tree to plant in your yard, or register a tree that you have recently planted.

Select a free tree for your yard! The goal of Boston's Urban Forest Coalition is to increase the City's canopy coverage from 29% to 35% by planting 100,000 new trees by 2020. Check out the Grow Boston Greener Tree Planting Guide to learn how you can request a tree for your proerty.
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