Save the Date! Captain Planet Foundation Gala 2014

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 features the Captain Planet Foundation 2014 benefit gala

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

Project Learning Garden Featured on The Atlanta 100

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

CPF partners Ray C. Anderson Foundation & Biomimicry Institute announced the addition of the $100,000 “Ray of Hope” Prize

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

Project Learning Garden Highlighted on Health News Digest

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 Comes to Georgia!

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

Burgess Peterson Academy is getting fresh

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

Project Learning Garden Expands Nationwide

By Southeast Green Posted: September 6, 2014Captain Planet Foundation’s (www.captainplanetf.wpengine.com) innovative Project Learning GardenTM 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 (Atlanta Public Schools and Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett Public School Systems) and 10 schools in a pilot program in Ventura … Read more