Mission Statement

Our Mission:

Shreveport Green is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting a healthy, sustainable, and economically vital community through public outreach, community enhancement, and a specific respect for the natural and built environmental.

Guiding Principles

Education: This is the key to encouraging positive behaviors toward community improvement.

Individual Responsibility: Improving communities, their environment, and quality of life all begins with personal responsibility -- individuals becoming more engaged as citizens and stewards of the environment.

Public-Private Partnerships: Broad-based community alliances are essential to achieve sustainable community improvement.

Volunteer Action: By engaging volunteers we extend the reach of our education and multiply the impact of our actions.

Focus

Shreveport Green changes behaviors and improves communities through a focus on three areas.

• Litter Prevention: Defining litter, identifying the causes, and reducing it by organizing cleanups, and promoting the proper handling of discarded waste in our communities.
• Tree Planting and Outreach: Planting trees, educating about proper planting techniques including right place, right species, and right time, and benefits of trees.
• Beautification and Community Greening: Improving the visual aspects of our communities through programs that beautiful and naturally clean our environment including community gardens, restoring vacant lots, highway and shoreline beautification and restoration, native and wildflower plantings, and graffiti prevention and abatement.
• Waste Reduction: Reducing the impact of solid waste in our community through integrated programs including responsible consumerism, source reduction and reuse, recycling and education about landfills, composting and waste-to-energy.