About UG

Who We Are

Mission – Ubuntu Green, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, committed to promoting healthy, sustainable and equitable communities through advocacy, education, and community empowerment.

Vision – A leader in promoting green principles, through partnerships, to increase public health, cleaner and safer environments, improved access to healthy food access, and greater economic stability to underserved communities.

Ubuntu – The ethic or humanist philosophy emphasizing community, sharing and generosity. The concept of Ubuntu is used in the political sphere to emphasize the need for unity or consensus in decision-making, as well as the need for a suitably humanitarian ethic to inform those decisions. The word has its origin in the Bantu languages of Southern African and as a traditional African concept.