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About UC Green

The mission of UC Green is to promote, coordinate, and support volunteer community greening in University City, West/Southwest Philadelphia neighborhoods. Through partnerships we build community, endorse sustainable practices, and champion environmental stewardship.


UC Green Accomplishments

2004 THROUGH SUMMER OF 2007 *Using Wharton Professor Susan Wachter’s research on the additional real estate value provided per tree per residential property of 9%; and University City’s median sale price of $150,000 (per Penn’s cartographic modeling lab data from 2004), the 1,000 additional trees planted by UC Green total $13.5 million in added property values.


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HISTORY

A brief history of UC Green is available here.