Month: September 2014

Atlanta Now-Learning GardensPosted: Sept. 29By City of Atlanta Channel 26https://player.vimeo.com/video/107075356 AN-Learning Gardens from ATL26 on Vimeo.

Captain Planet Foundation’s innovative Project Learning Garden provides schools with strategies for building effective and sustainable garden-based learning programs. By the end of 2014, the program will have 110 Project Learning Garden schools in its hometown of Atlanta, Georgia (Atlanta Public Schools and Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett Public School Systems) and10 schools in a pilot program in Ventura County, Calif. The goal of Project Learning … Read more

It definitely takes a village to manage the Project Learning Garden schools around metro-Atlanta!  This summer, CPF was once again the recipient of generous support from the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation / Atlanta Falcons Youth Foundation to support our summer garden management program. Around metro-Atlanta, 58 elementary and middle schools had their Project Learning … Read more

Small Grant Competition to Expand Environmental Education”Posted: Sept. 26By Kathryn Baron – Education Week The Captain Planet Foundation is accepting proposals for grants to give students a chance to make real environmental improvements at their schools or in their communities through hands-on, project-based learning. Schools and nonprofit organizations, whose annual operating budgets are $3 million … Read more

FoodCorps Service Site SpotlightPosted: August 2014By Brooke Hatfield from Georgia Organics Georgia Organics is thrilled to be bringing FoodCorps to Georgia, and we’ve selected some incredible partner organizations to serve as the FoodCorps service Sites: the Captain Planet Foundation, the Athens Land Trust, and the Northeast Georgia Farm to School Program (Georgia Organics’ pilot program). Four service members will serve in Atlanta … Read more

Captain Planet Foundation GalaPosted: August 2014By Atlanta Buzz One of the Southeast’s largest eco-benefits, the annual Captain Planet Foundation Gala will be held on Friday, Dec. 5 at the InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta (3315 Peachtree Road NE) from 6:00-9:30 p.m.  Single tickets are $750, $1,500 per couple, and corporate tables start at $5,000.  The charitable evening will raise funds for the Foundation’s programs, which … Read more

The Atlanta Business Chronicle Posted: July 25, 2014The SaportaReport Posted: July 28, 2014 Captain Planet Foundation Speaking of the environment, the Captain Planet Foundation has announced its 2014 Exemplar Award winner — Jane Goodall, the animal rights activist who has become one of the world’s leading experts on chimpanzees. Goodall, 80, also founded the Jane Goodall … Read more

Great segment on The Weather Channel today highlighting the negative effects of air pollution on children’s health, including an interview with Captain Planet Foundation chairperson Laura Turner Seydel. Watch here: http://fw.to/MiaLGFQ

100 Atlanta Community: Project Learning GardenPosted: Sept. 25By Emily Tracy, SPR – The Atlanta 100 Atlanta kids will soon be swapping cafeteria fish sticks for their own organically grown vegetables through an innovative project that connects underserved communities to real food. Read Full Article

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has partnered with the Biomimicry Institute to announce the addition of the $100,000 Ray of Hope Prize to the Global Biomimicry Design Challenge. The announcement was made today at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York City. https://www.youtube.com/embed/rQMnVQ-n9kU?rel=0