Grantee Success Story

Bird and Bat Box Building – Grantee Success Story

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Older students constructing bird house in field

Center for Land-Based Learning Winters, CaliforniaThe Center for Land-Based Learning’s SLEWS (Student and Landowner Education and Watershed Stewardship) program engages California high school students in habitat restoration projects that enhance classroom learning, develop leadership skills and result in real positive impact for the environment. By including California school students in habitat restoration, SLEWS addresses the needs … Read more

Rhode Island Youth Conservation League – Grantee Success Story

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four teenagers tending to their wildlife

Rhode Island Natural History Survey Kingston, Rhode IslandProject Title: Rhode Island Youth Conservation League Rhode Island Youth Conservation League (YCL), is a program were high school aged youth work with college-aged leaders to accomplish tasks that preserve conservation land and the resources that derive from it for the good of the community, including: recreation, clean air … Read more

We Care A Whole Awful Lot!

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Bags of recycling

Students implement recycling program to inspire “Earth heroes” Grantee: Clarence Galm Elementary School – San Antonio, TX Project Title: Let’s Save the Trees, cause WE Care a Whole Awful Lot! Grant Type: ecoSolution Description: Students at Clarence Galm Elementary School saw the need for a recycling program in the community. Through Captain Planet Foundation’s help, Clarence Galm Elementary School was … Read more

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Evergreen Conservancy Indiana, PennsylvaniaProject Title: Renewable Energy Expansion at Tanoma AMD Wetlands With the help of a Captain Planet Foundation Small Grant a new water turbine has been installed at Tanoma Abandoned Mine Drainage (AMD) Wetlands and is generating hydroelectricity. Tanoma AMD Wetlands is a passive mine drainage treatment system that utilizes wetland ponds to treat the pollutants … Read more

Snow Science

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High school students in Idaho examine local water quality through snow Grantee – Post Falls High School – Post Falls, ID Project Title: Snow Science Grant Type: ecoSolution Description: Thanks to a grant from the Captain Planet Foundation 60 honor’s biology students took a field trip to Mount Spokane State Park to measure and analyze various physical properties of snow and quantify water … Read more

Project Learning Garden at Camden Street School in Newark, NJ

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Dole Packaged Foods joins ShopRite, the Greater Newark Conservancy and Captain Planet Foundation to celebrate Project Learning Garden at Camden Street School in Newark, NJPosted: May 20SOURCE Dole Packaged Foods LLC NEWARK, N.J., May 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Superintendent of Newark Public Schools Cami Anderson and ShopRite of Newark owner Neil Greenstein were joined … Read more

Envirothon in New York State

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Grantee Environmental Education Foundation of Soil and Water Conservation Thanks to a Captain Planet Foundation grant, this past year the NYS Envirothon program hosted over 41 teams with over 205 students participating at the state level event. At the local level, student teams attend outdoor educational workshops in each of the 5 Envirothon categories. The Envirothon education topics include Wildlife, … Read more

Growing Green

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Students receive school garden to learn the importance of gardening and the environment Grantee: Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools– New Orleans, LA Project Title: School Garden at Edgar P. Harney Academy Grant Type: ecoSolution Description: Through Rethink, students learn about and create change in schools focused on food, nutrition & lunch, the environment, building designs, student conflict & discipline, … Read more

Environmental Education in Norwich, VT

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Grantee – GEDAKINA, INC Gedakina is pronounced /g’ dah keen nah/ and means, “Our world, a way of life” in the Wabanaki language. Keepers of the Earth (KOE) Connects preschool – high school age youth to the outdoors through exploring places of ecological and community significance and by participating in activities like hiking, snowshoeing and canoeing. In addition … Read more