Kendyll Romine Mississippi families and students plant gardens to teach green living Grantee: Youth Villages, Inc. – Douglasville, GA Project Title: Gardens in the Gulf Grant Type: ecoSolution Description: Thanks to a grant from the Captain Planet Foundation, Youth Villages staff and families joined Pascagoula High students and faculty to celebrate Gardens in the Gulf Day at the Douglasville campus. The Douglasville residential campus for children with … Read more
On Thursday, April 26th, Captain Planet visited students participating in the SCANA Energy after school homework center at Birney Elementary School in Cobb County, GA. In partnership with SCANA Energy, the Captain Planet Foundation held activities to empower & teach the students to implement environmental solutions in their school, homes, and community. Captain Planet Foundation’s garden … Read more
Former U.S. Green Building Council Georgia Chapter Executive Director to Lead Environmental Education Foundation ATLANTA – May 9, 2012 – The Captain Planet Foundation (CPF), an organization dedicated to high-quality programs that empower youth to become global environmental change-makers, has named Leesa Carter as its new Executive Director. Carter previously served as executive director … Read more
SustainUS’s Citizen Science Paper Competition is an entirely volunteer-run, youth-led program that promotes appreciation of environmental issues by challenging fellow youth to actively generate innovative scientific solutions to environmental problems. For eight years SustainUS has provided competition winners the rare opportunity to present their original research and solutions to environmental professional and United Nations representatives … Read more
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT! Tell your friends and vote for the Captain Planet Foundation TODAY! https://www.carsforgood.com/app_live/widget.php?org_id=441 Toyota’s 100 Cars for Good program will be awarding 100 vehicles to 100 nonprofits over the course of 100 days based on votes from the public. A total of 500 nonprofits were selected from more than 4,000 applications nationwide. We are hoping … Read more
Healing Harvest created and coordinates the greenhouse, learning garden project as part of the sustainable agriculture program at Kennedy Alternative High School in Cottage Grove, Oregon. This is a well-established site with an outdoor garden area with 3,300 square feet of planting space, as well as over 1,000 square feet of fully equipped professional-quality greenhouse … Read more
Giving Point and Alpharetta High School join together to teach students about environmental stewardship Grantee: Giving Point– Atlanta, GA Project Title: Our Youth, Our Environment, Our Planet Grant Type: ecoSolution Description: The “Our Youth, Our Environment, Our Planet” project was born from a partnership between GivingPoint and Alpharetta High School in Roswell, GA to address a critical need to … Read more
Youth in Santa Fe, AZ participate in gardening program and provide mobile toolshed to community Grantee: Earth Care Internation – Santa Fe, NM Project Title: Grapevine Gardening and Mobile Toolshed Grant Type: ecoSolution Under the direction of Earth Care International, The Grapevine Gardening and Mobile Toolshed is a project led by youth in the Youth Allies Program who have … Read more
On Saturday, April 14, 2012, from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm at the Chattahoochee Nature Center, we will be celebrating the 10th Anniversary of our Annual Earth Day Kids Fest (EDKF). The day will offer a fantastic array of “edutainment” to engage and entertain families! Start the morning off with a handshake and photo opportunity … Read more
In 1966 Sylvia Earle received her Ph.D. from Duke. Her dissertation “Phaeophyta of the Eastern Gulf of Mexico” created a sensation in the oceanographic community. Never before had a marine scientist made such an extensively detailed study of aquatic plant life. Since then she has made a lifelong project of cataloging every species of plant … Read more