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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

WebMDPosted: August 2014 You have a healthy idea that you want to put into action, just like WebMD’s Health Heroes do. Be ready to use your heart and your head. The experts we asked for advice put passion and planning at the top of their lists. Find something you want to do, then figure out … Read more

By HealthNewsDigest.comPosted: August 19, 2014 3:43 pm The Captain Planet Foundation’s (www.captainplanetfoundation.org) innovative Project Learning GardenTM program integrates gardens with core subject lessons, connects gardens to school cafeterias, provides professional development for teachers to provide project-based learning to students and maintains the garden during the summer. The program has school gardens in its hometown of Atlanta (110 schools in Atlanta Public … Read more

FoodCorps, a national farm to school organization that is part of the AmeriCorps Service Network, has officially launched in Georgia!  FoodCorps mission is to connect children in underserved communities to real food in order to help them grow up healthy. This year, FoodCorps added Georgia and Washington, D.C. to its existing 15-state program after a … Read more

By Examiner.com/Atlanta Sustainability Examiner Posted: September 3, 2014 On September 3, 2014, FoodCorps volunteers worked in the Burgess Peterson Academy garden. They will be helping work and improve the school garden over the next year. The garden is an extension to classroom learning and also is working to offer fresh garden items to the school’s cafeteria. … Read more