Community Profile

City of Dublin

Dublin, OH

Emily Goliver

Operations Administrator/Sustainability

Pledge Summary

Established in 1810, the City of Dublin, USA, is home to approximately 50,000 residents. The City is committed to becoming the most sustainable, connected, and resilient global city of choice. The community places a high value on its natural resources and green spaces, recognizing the importance of protecting and enhancing them while serving as a model for residents and the broader community. As part of this commitment, the City actively supports conservation efforts to maintain pollinator habitats in both public and private spaces. Initiatives include programs such as Certified Backyard habitats, along with ongoing stewardship in City parks and green space, naturalizing open areas and creating new pollinator gardens and meadows, buffer zones around waterways and establishing native plants after invasive plant removal. Dublin also provides plant and wildlife education, as well as pollinator habitat support, to HOAs, residents, developers, community groups and garden clubs. Our Mayor and city leaders have committed to saving the Mornarch Butterfly by joining this pledge.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2026

Communications and Convening ▸

Issue a proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat. This proclamation must incorporate a focus on monarch conservation.
Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
Engage with city parks and recreation, public works, sustainability, and other relevant staff to identify opportunities to revise and maintain mowing programs and milkweed / native nectar plant planting programs.
Engage with gardening leaders and partners (e.g., Master Naturalists, Master Gardeners, Nature Centers, Native Plant Society Chapters , other long-standing and influential community leaders) to support monarch butterfly conservation.
Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.
Launch or maintain an outdoor education program(s) (e.g., at schools, after-school programs, community centers and groups) that builds awareness and creates habitat by engaging students, educators, and the community in planting native milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Schoolyard Habitats program and Monarch Mission curriculum).
Earn or maintain recognition for being a wildlife-friendly city by participating in other wildlife and habitat conservation efforts (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Community Wildlife Habitat program).
Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.

Systems Change ▸

Launch, expand, or continue an effort to change municipal planting ordinances and practices to include more native milkweed and native nectar producing plants at city properties.
Integrate monarch butterfly conservation into the city’s Park Master Plan, Sustainability Plan, Climate Resiliency Plan or other city plans.
Reduce or eliminate the use of herbicides, pesticides, or other chemicals that are harmful to monarchs and pollinators and urban wildlife.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
Operations Administrator/Sustainability Emily Goliver	2026	3/19/2026		View Pledge

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