Grantee: Academe of the Oaks High School – Decatur, GAProject Title: Edible Forest Garden at Academe of the Oaks High School Identifying the Obstacles to Environmental Education: About a quarter of an acre wooded area adjacent to the school’s organic vegetable garden was overgrown with invasive plants including English ivy, poison ivy and green briar. This area was … Read more
Grantee: Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, Inc. – Atlanta, GAProject Title: Lake Lanier and West Point Lake Floating Classroom Identifying the Obstacles to Environmental Education:Chattahoochee Riverkeeper (CRK) created an on-the-water education program in 2000 to provide an opportunity for students to make the connection between the river that supplies their drinking water and their daily lives and to learn on the water … Read more
Grantee: Mosquito Range Heritage Initiative – Alma, ColoradoProject Title: Family Outdoor Adventure Series Identifying the Obstacles to Environmental Education:South Park is a spectacularly beautiful location adjacent to the Mosquito Range Mountains. Yet many families never explore the mountains due to lack of knowledge, job pressure, discomfort, & other reasons. Few organized outdoor natural science opportunities exist … Read more
Grantee: Emerson Waldorf School – Chapel Hill, NCProject Title: Emerson Farm Pollinator and Beekeeping Garden With a Captain Planet Foundation Small Grant, Emerson Farm was able to complete, connect, and expand a piece of their program that has been missing – the Beekeeping and Pollinator Garden. As an educational garden, based on the work of Rudolf Steiner, they … Read more
Grantee: Gowanus Canal Conservancy – Brooklyn, New YorkProject Title: Gowanus Canal: Clean & Green The Gowanus Canal is a polluted urban water way in Brooklyn, NY that is a Superfund site. To counter decades of environmental abuse, Gowanus Canal Conservancy has been working toward an “Open, Clean and Alive” Gowanus Canal and Watershed. They are moving toward this vision in part … Read more
“ELK has taught me how important it is to conserve and protect the outdoors because the scenery and the enlightenment of being in nature is something everyone should be able to experience.”– Nya Wallace (Age 18) Grantee: Environmental Learning for Kids –Denver, ColoradoProject Title: Denver Youth Naturally (DYN) Denver Youth Naturally and Leadership Corps (DYN), ELK’s core … Read more
Grantee: Mobile Baykeeper Inc. – Mobile, AlabamaProject Title: Fighting Invasive Species & Litter in Three Mile Creek With the help of grant funding from the Captain Planet Foundation and matching funds from, ArcelorMittal, AM/NS Calvert; Wells Fargo; JL Bedsole Foundation; and Mobile Baykeeper’s members, 70 childern were able to initiate over a dozen Invasive Species Removal and … Read more
Grantee: Leonardo da Vinci Dolphin Yacht Club – Sacramento, CaliforniaProject Title: Dolphin Yacht Club Solar Regatta The middle school Leonardo da Vinci Dolphin Yacht Club learned about solar energy and studied how to make the most efficient use of the sun to power a boat. They designed and built the boat and the motor and raced in a … Read more
Grantee: Clarkdale Elementary School – Austell, GA Project Title: Learning Garden Grant Type: Project Learning Garden The Clarkdale Elementary School garden in Cobb County was part of the Captain Planet Foundation Project Learning Garden pilot year in 2012. With full support from Principal Marjorie Bickerstaff, the garden flourished, and all students participated in the Project Learning Garden lessons taught … Read more
School environmental groups help with Cooper City projectBy Fallan Patterson Concern for burrowing owls living in the unstable sand under the sidewalk outside Cooper City’s Forest Lake Park recently prompted 80 volunteers to create six safe artificial nests. Utilizing a $2,000 grant from the Captain Planet Foundation, students and parents from Griffin Elementary School, members … Read more