UC Green 15th Anniversary

Posted by on September 16, 2013

UC Green 15th Anniversary

Come Celebrate With Us at the Woodlands Mansion!

Why We Are Excited:

Held at the Woodlands Mansion
Cocktail Party from 6-8pm
September 26, 2013

Click Here for Event Tickets
https://ucgreen.eventbrite.com/

About UC Green:

About Us
Mission Statement

Through partnerships and education we empower volunteer environmental stewardship in University city and its surrounding communities.

History

UC Green was started in 1998 by the University of Pennsylvania’s Facilities and Real Estate Services.  Neighborhood resident and Penn staffer, Esaul Sanchez, was the first executive director.  Our first office was located in a Penn-owned building at 4013 Chestnut Street.

Early on, Penn worked to combat crime, trash and blight in University City.  UC Green’s role, as then-President Judith Rodin put it, was to “unite community organizations, city agencies, university students and residents in local greening efforts.”

Esaul Sanchez recruited a team of volunteers from the community, Penn’s staff, and student body to attend the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Tree Tenders training.  These volunteers would then go on to form the new UC Green Tree Tenders group and launch a series of tree and public landscape plantings.

In its first year, UC Green completed over 20 individual block greening projects.  With this experience under its belt, UC Green began first-in-the-city large-scale community tree plantings.  Hundreds of volunteers planted hundreds of street trees.  In these early years, UC Green also completed new landscapes for public schools, public health centers, and public gardens.  These landscapes featuring plants native to the area, including those found in Bartram Gardens, showy exotics, and medicinal plantings.

Read more at: http://www.ucgreen.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=27