Creating Canopy: Penn, Philadelphia Partner to Distribute Free Trees to University
As the first institution to take part in Philadelphia’s Creating Canopy program, the University of Pennsylvania is partnering with the city’s Parks and Recreation Department to distribute to faculty and staff homeowners in the city 300 free trees to plant on their property.
Creating Canopy: Penn, Philadelphia Partner to Distribute Free Trees to University
As the first institution to take part in Philadelphia’s Creating Canopy program, the University of Pennsylvania is partnering with the city’s Parks and Recreation Department to distribute to faculty and staff homeowners in the city 300 free trees to plant on their property.
The “Creating Canopy with Penn” pilot program will offer the trees on a first-come, first-served basis. It is part of Mayor Michael A. Nutter’s Greenworks campaign, which calls for planting 300,000 new trees in the city by 2015.
“We’re honored to help Philadelphia become America’s greenest city through Mayor Nutter’s Greenworks campaign,” Penn President Amy Gutmann said. “Our sponsorship of this program further engages our campus community in making the greatest possible impact on our city, expansion of our environmental outreach and progress toward our ambitious sustainability goals.”
To achieve the mayor’s Greenworks target, the city plans to increase its own tree-planting activities as well as work with numerous partners under this new tree-planting model in which everyone can play a role, including residents, neighborhoods, institutions and corporations.
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