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Active

Pledge Date

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Program Year

2026

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Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC

Jess Anderson

Mayor

Pledge Summary

Chapel Hill is a vibrant college town in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, known as the home of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With a population of roughly 60,000, the town blends a strong academic and research presence with a deep commitment to environmental stewardship, sustainability, and community engagement. Chapel Hill consistently emphasizes green infrastructure, climate action, and preservation of natural spaces, which naturally extends into efforts to support pollinators like bees and monarch butterflies.

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Action Items Committed for 2026

Communications and Convening ▸

  • 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.
  • Create a community-driven educational conservation strategy, initiative, or practice that focuses on and benefits local, underserved residents.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

  • Facilitate or support a milkweed seed collection and propagation effort.
  • Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
  • 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).
  • Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
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