That was the inspiration behind starting Community Greening, an urban forestry non-profit in Palm Beach County, Florida — to directly engage the entire community to be proactive to respond to the ecological and human risks associated with climate change.

A remarkably effective and beneficial way to do this is also one of the simplest and least expensive — planting and caring for trees.

Cities like Los Angeles, New York, and Miami have organized tree planting campaigns. (So has the United Nations.) Many American mayors include the tree canopy in their city’s improvement plans.

Since our founding in 2016, Community Greening has worked with 3,000 volunteers of all ages to plant more than 3,000 trees in parks, schoolyards, residential yards and urban orchards in Palm Beach County. In 2018, we were recognized for our efforts and named the Tree Advocacy Group of the Year by Florida’s Urban Forestry Council.

We envision engaged communities creating sustainable green spaces and a vibrant tree canopy to equitably strengthen our environment, economy, society and health.