UCSF Health launched a Greening Parnassus Heights initiative to plant more street trees in the neighborhood surrounding campus to help increase the urban canopy and reduce the heat island effect made more deadly due to climate change. A community-based organization, to be selected through an RFP process, will engage nearby neighbors and plant the trees throughout the community, consistent with UCSF Health’s Memorandum of Understanding with the city.

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