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The Greening of Detroit

Here’s a heartwarming initiative that benefits both the environment and local community.

In the USA, great work is being done in The Greening of Detroit, a green infrastructure program that is focused on empowering Detroit communities in the creation of healthy green and productive landscapes. As stated on their website, the program “combines information, education and community outreach to support the installation and maintenance of ecological landscapes”.

Being a largely urban area, the focus has been on planting trees and creating green spaces vital to city living. Since 1989 more than 130,000 trees have been planted via a program designed to improve the quality of life and overall health of Detroit residents using the enumerable environmental benefits that trees can provide. One particular community garden in the heart of downtown Detroit, ‘Lafayette Greens’, is a green space with a mission statement to provide “a place of respite and solitude; a place where people reconnect with beauty and experience nature; a place of education and discovery.” That sounds like a place we could all use!

A special youth ‘Green Corps’ program was created as a way of involving the youth of Detroit in maintaining the expanding green spaces across the city and the program also offers unemployed residents training opportunities and certifications within the landscape sector. Another fantastic example of community collaboration centred around the planting of trees.

Read inspiring stories of sustainability and service in action on their blog.

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