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Students Combat Pollinator Loss

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Butterfly on milkweed

Grantee:  Atlanta Botanical Garden – Atlanta, GA / 2016Project Title: DNA Barcoding for BiodiversityGrant Type: ecoTech Description: Pollinator decline is an important conservation concern, particularly in densely populated urban areas. Dedicating green space, increasing native plant habitat, and creating pollinator gardens can combat pollinator losses by providing nesting and foraging habitat. Student-led groups from 5 Atlanta high schools recorded … Read more

Ways To #OptOutside

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Photo credit: Brennen Bartlett (@waywardsphotos) courtesy of REI REI is celebrating hardworking people dedicated to a life outdoors and working to get more Americans outside with the campaign #OptOutside. Ways to Get Involved: Tell REI  how you plan to #OptOutside New experiential search engine – experiences and imagery from the outdoor community REI Journal – powerful thought-pieces from … Read more

Nov 15th is America Recycles Day!

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Recycle, buy recycled goods and help teach others the benefits of recycling and continue to do so each day! You can get involved by joining Recycle for Good & Novelis Life of a Can initiative.

Students Use Sea Perches With Cameras To Observe Fish In Their Natural Habitat

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Grantee: Innovations STEM Academy – Sparta, WI / 2017Project Title: Sea Perch Habitat DiveGrant Type: ecoTech Description: Middle school students worked collaboratively to build Sea Perches with cameras. The students then tested the Sea Perches at a hotel. pool. The pool was nice and clear so the students were able to easily see and practice maneuvering their devices. Teamwork … Read more

Blast Off With Captain Planet Gala

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Captain planet gala with Ted Turner and Jane Fonda

By buckhavenlifestyle.com The Captain Planet Foundation is gearing up for the Southeast’s largest eco-benefit, the 2017 Benefit Gala. Co-chaired by Cara Isdell Lee of Buckhead, Kiki Goshay, and Susan van Liere, the event will be held at the InterContinental Hotel Buckhead on December 8. Each year, the Foundation celebrates today’s environmental champions and the programs that … Read more

Students At The Celebration K8 School Planted A Pollinator Garden From A PolliNation ecoSTEM Kit Grant!

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Young students working in circular garden

Grantee: Celebration K8 School – Celebration, Florida  / 2017Grant Type: ecoSTEM, PolliNation Kit Mr. Fiorito and his students are excited to see their garden grow! The seedlings of coreopsis, passionvine, cassia, gaillardia, ironweed, blazing star, partridge pea, and goldenrod were provided by a grant from the Florida Wildflower Foundation. They also planted milkweed to attract Monarch butterflies … Read more

Students’ Food Drive Effort Sprouts New School Garden

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young kids excited with plants

By Hector Gonzalez / thecamarilloacorn.com Last November, Pleasant Valley School District students stuffed two school buses with food for Dole Packaged Food’s annual Spirit of Giving scholastic challenge. Through the district’s annual Stuff a Bus campaign organized by Becky Kaspar, a home eco- nomics teacher and student body advisor at Las Colinas Middle School, PVSD … Read more

Dole And FOOD Share Celebrate Food Drive At Tierra Linda School

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By vcstar.com A classroom of second-graders at Tierra Linda School in Camarillo spent Friday morning getting their hands dirty in a new school vegetable garden — a garden where they will learn the impact of growing their own food. The elementary school’s garden was provided by the Captain Planet Foundation in partnership with Dole Packaged Foods … Read more

Awesome Preview Of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes Featuring Captain Planet & The Planeteers

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Captain Planet drawing

Watch Captain Planet and Kwame help save the day in their bonkers ‘OK K.O.’ cameoBy www.mashable.com In these troubled times, when climate change is considered fake news and we seem to be constantly teetering on the brink of nuclear war, you might find yourself yearning for simpler days, back when a generation of optimistic kids … Read more