VIDEO: Bette Midler Discusses Her Passion For Keeping NYC Clean

Bette Midler is a household name known for her stage and screen work, but she also does another very important job: keeping New York City clean.

Midler founded the New York Restoration Project in 1995 to help clean up green spaces in the five boroughs, something she developed a passion for after moving back to the city after the 1994 Northridge earthquake.

According to Variety, the nonprofit has helped plant 1 million trees, replenish 80 acres of parkland and protect 110 community gardens. Midler herself even helped pick up the trash that volunteers have cleared from public spaces.

"For my 60th birthday, my board of directors took one of the lots and called it Bette's Garden," Midler says. "It's a Rose Garden, because they think of me as a rose."

Watch the video to hear her talk about her experiences!

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Midler most recently appeared on Broadway in the revival of Hello, Dolly! for which she won a Tony Award. Previously, she appeared in I'll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers in 2013.

She made her Broadway debut in Fiddler on the Roof in 1964.

Her record debut, "The Divine Miss M," earned her a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. In 1979, Bette made her film debut in portraying a doomed and self destructive rock & roll singer in The Rose, for which she earned the Golden Globe for Best Actress, Academy Award nomination, and Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal performance.

In 1988 Bette starred in Beaches, and received her third Grammy Award, Record of the Year, for the film's title song, "Wind Beneath My Wings." Midler garnered her second Best Actress Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for Mark Rydell's For The Boys.

Additional film credits include: Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Ruthless People, Big Business, Scene's From a Mall, Hocus Pocus, The First Wives Club, The Stepford Wives, Then She Found Me and The Women.