About TD Tree Days
Over 430,000 trees planted and counting!
As TD’s flagship volunteer and urban greening program, TD Tree Days provides TD employees, their families and friends, and community, the opportunity to volunteer and help build healthy, vibrant communities by caring for their local environment.
We work with dozens of organizations, including municipalities, conservation authorities and Indigenous communities, who provide technical expertise to ensure that the right tree is properly planted in the right place.
TD Tree Days is contributing The Ready Commitment's target of planting 1 million trees by 2030. Since the program launched in 2010, over 430,000 native trees and shrubs have been planted with the help of volunteers across the country. This fall, thousands of volunteers will come together to further enhance their local green spaces by planting trees and shrubs at over 100 sites across Canada.
Click here to register for an event near you!
If you are unable to join us on site, follow the action on Instagram and Twitter at #TDTreeDays.
The Ecological Value of Forests
Healthy forests and urban canopies play important roles in maintaining a healthy planet. By participating in TD Tree Days volunteers actively support forest stewardship, while making a tangible contribution to the well-being of their community and environment.
In addition to their important economic, cultural and recreational value, the ecological value of forests is vital. Forests provide critical ecosystem services, including 1:
- Capturing solar energy and create oxygen
- Moderating local and regional climates
- Storing water and affect water table
- Developing and condition soils
- Storing and recycling nutrients
- Providing essentials of life to birds, fish and other wildlife
- Adding to the planet’s biodiversity
- Tempering the effects of global warming
- Acting as carbon reservoirs
Similarly, urban canopies provide a broad array of well-known environmental, economic, and social benefits, including 2:
- Sequestering of gaseous air pollutants and particulates.
- Energy conservation through cooling, shade, and wind reduction
- Storm-water attenuation
- Noise buffering
- Provision of wildlife habitat
- Increased property value
- Improved aesthetics and psychological well being
About the TD Ready Commitment
In a period of unprecedented change, driven by advances in technology, shifts in demographics, climate change and globalization, the pace of change has never been greater.
To help individuals and communities prosper in a changing world, TD launched the TD Ready Commitment, a new multi-year program to open doors for a more inclusive tomorrow.
As part of the TD Ready Commitment, TD will target a total of CDN $1 billion by 2030 towards community giving in four areas critical to building an inclusive future – Financial Security, a more Vibrant Planet, Connected Communities and Better Health. TD will also align this work with the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.
Learn more: td.com/tdreadycommitment
About TD Friends of the Environment Foundation
From schoolyard naturalization and wildlife rehabilitation to tree plantings and environmental education, TD Friends of the Environment Foundation (TD FEF) is proud to provide funding to help sustain an incredible array of grassroots environmental programs across the country. Since 1990, TD FEF has supported over 27,000 projects with over $99 million in funding.
Funding recommendations are made by one of six Regional Advisory Boards across the country, ensuring that decision-making is local, relevant and impactful.
And, because TD covers the management and administrative costs of running TD FEF, 100% of every dollar donated to the Foundation supports local environmental projects in the communities in which the donation was made.