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Natural Awakenings Dallas -Fort Worth Metroplex Edition

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KUDOS - Greening Czar

Dallas Mayor Eric L. Johnson has named Garrett Boone the City’s inaugural Greening Czar. He will lead the mayor’s priority initiative to transform vacant, unused and underused city-owned land into green space. “This announcement supports a bigger dream of mine,” Johnson says. “A dream of a greener and greater Dallas for all!”

Boone, co-founder and chairman emeritus of The Container Store, is a successful entrepreneur, environmentalist, conservationist and philanthropist. For decades, he has championed transformational park projects across Dallas, serving on multiple boards of organizations leading efforts to protect the environment and create beautiful outdoor gathering spaces, including The Boone Family Foundation, the Trinity Park Conservancy and Greenspace Dallas.

Ray Garvin, The Trust for Public Land Texas director of philanthropy, praised Boone’s support for “big, bold projects” like the Five Mile Creek Greenbelt, which will provide convenient access to parks, trails and green spaces to nearly 187,000 residents of Oak Cliff, one of Dallas’s most historically underserved neighborhoods.