Forests and Wilds,
for everyone.
Using all 4,000 acres of the city as our classroom, we connect communities to the importance of trees and native habitats, helping to create climate resilient neighborhoods while centering equity and environmental justice.
We are a place-based 501(c)3 non-profit centered on paid local ecology programs for teens and environmental education opportunities for all. We advocate on behalf of our shared natural systems, for the benefits they provide for all those who inhabit them, and for more responsible land and resource use in Cambridge.
Our programs engage and empower youth and community members in restoration and education initiatives fostering their sense of agency and connection to nature, and working toward a more climate-resilient future.
Green Cambridge works to create a more sustainable city and to protect the environment for the health and safety of all.
Equity and justice is the foundation of our work. We recognize that the land and waters known today as “Cambridge” are the ancestral and unceded lands of the Massachusett, Wampanoag, Narragansett, and Pawtucket peoples, who have stewarded this land for generations. We acknowledge the devastating and ongoing legacy of colonialism, which violently dispossessed Indigenous peoples of their territories, cultures, and ways of life. We honor and respect the enduring presence and deep wisdom of the native communities who are still here today, and believe that Traditional Ecological Knowledge and indigenous worldviews are essential in re-establishing ecosystems and ways of life that are bound to this land. We recognize the need to be actively anti-racist and pledge for our programs to be inclusive and work towards dismantling racism within the broader environmental movement we participate in.
There is no environmental justice, no climate resiliency, no sustainability without justice for Black and Indigenous communities and we center this in all of our work.
FORESTS
Trees are essential to community and climate resiliency. Canopy Crew plants up to 100 trees each year on private property, prioritizing low-canopy EJ neighborhoods.
WILDS
The Alewife Brook Reservation is Cambridge’s only urban wilds. Join us in stewarding this important wetland to protect and restore the ecosystem!
