Air Quality Climate Change Environmental Protection and Management Planning and Development Recreation, Parks and Culture
Description:
Trees for Tomorrow is a Province of British Columbia initiative designed to support urban and rural communities in the planting of millions of trees in schoolyards, hospital grounds, civic parks, campuses, parking lots and other public spaces throughout British Columbia over the next five years.
This initiative is part of the Province’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by at least 33 per cent below current levels by 2020.
Projects selected for funding must meet the following criteria:
* ecologically sound project and site plan;
* volunteer and community engagement;
* partnered funding;
* linkages with other provincial government initiatives; and
* stewardship, monitoring and long-term sustainability plans.
The Province will fund up to 50% of a project. Funding is available up to a maximum of $50,000 per project.
Eligible costs include:
trees and shrubs;
seedlings (in the case of urban Mountain Pine Beetle affected area renewal only); and
mulch, tree guards and mulch mats.
Eligible applicants include local governments, First Nations and institutional landowners such as school districts, hospital and universities. Environmental and stewardship groups are invited to apply in partnership with another eligible applicant
The next application intake deadline is June 30, 2009.
