Community Greenspace is for everyone.
Join an existing Community Greenspace group or create a new group. Learn more.
Ride Rock to Rock with URI!
Help us celebrate the 50th Earth Day! Register here.
New Haven: Adopt a Free Tree!
URI GREENSKILLS WILL PLANT YOUR free tree. Click here.
"Ask a Yale Environmental Expert” are weekly Zoom calls designed to engage local high school students and interested New Haven residents to learn about environmental topics from Yale F&ES faculty. Thursdays at 10 a.m.
Zoom Call
"Ask a Yale Environmental Expert” are weekly Zoom calls designed to engage local high school students and interested New Haven residents to learn about environmental topics from Yale F&ES faculty. Thursdays at 10 a.m.
Zoom Call
URI offers paid Greenspace and GreenSkills internships for Yale students, as well as for New Haven high school students and adults with a history that includes incarceration.
One of the most valuable contributions is your time. Most of URI's volunteer opportunities are with Greenspace in the summer. We host a few special workdays in the spring and fall.
Your contribution will support job training for teens and formerly incarcerated adults while improving our environment through tree planting and green space revitalization. Proceeds will provide internships, tools, compost, mulch and trees.
Thanks to a partnership with the City of New Haven's Parks, Recreation and Trees Department we are happy to plant street trees for New Haven residents with our GreenSkills crews.
02/29/2020
Fort Hale Park24 volunteers spent the morning in Lighthouse Park cutting the vines that are taking down older trees and preventing new trees from growing.
02/26/2020
Beaver Ponds ParkSeven volunteers spent the morning in Beaver Ponds Park cutting the vines that are taking down older trees and preventing new trees from growing.
08/22/2019
Cherry Ann Park20 first-year students from Yale working with the FOCUS program and 44 incoming graduate students with the School of Forestry at Yale assisted community members in clearing trash, invasive plants, and planting 3 shrubs and 3 trees.
08/10/2019
Victims of Gun Violence16 volunteers worked together to remove invasive plants, mulch and water existing plantings.