Archives – Captain Planet Foundation

School Habitat Design

Grantee: Edison High School, Academy of Sustainability at Edison – Huntington Beach, CA / 2017 Project Title: Edison Habitat Design Project Grant Type: ecoSolution Description: Edison High School students are repairing their campus’s ecosystem, one habitat design at a time! The Academy of Sustainability noticed that there were several plants that do not naturally grow in…

Captain Planet Foundation, a partner of E.O. Wilson’s Half-Earth project, is thrilled to share this great news!

Article by, Min Seo Twelve-time Grammy winner Paul Simon announced last month tat he and his band are embarking on a 17-city U.S. summer concert tour, with proceeds to support the Half-Earth Project of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation. Half-Earth is a collaborative effort to conserve half of Earth for all of life, with inspiration…

THE NEW ARRIVAL OF A YOUTH GARDEN IN the CAPITOL VIEW COMMUNITY GARDEN

Article by, Min Seo Captain Planet Foundation and FoodCorps crew members took part in Atlanta’s MLK Day of Service by installing a youth garden in Capitol View Community Garden. After harvesting and cleaning carrots and turnips from the last planting season, the team worked with community volunteers to build youth garden beds and plant them…

Olivia Ries' NatGeo coverage of the CPF 2016 Benefit Gala

To Believe or Not To Believe… That is the Question Posted: Jan. 9 By National Geographic Online – Olivia Ries, One More Generation HI! It’s Olivia from OMG here. Let me start off by wishing everyone a Happy New Year and by saying thanks for relying on Nat Geo and the many guest bloggers for…

5 quick questions with superhero Captain Planet

5 snabba med superhjälten Captain Planet Posted: November 3 By Sapir: Magasin (written in Swedish) Translation: 5 quick questions with superhero Captain Planet 1. Who are you, Captain Planet? I am the world’s first eco-hero. I was an idea conceived by Ted Turner and Barbara Pyle, and in 1990, I was first broadcast on Saturday morning…

A group of third, fourth and fifth-grade students gather to listen for frogs

CPF grantee Pine Valley Elementary School’s Frog Watch USA group was featured in AZA.org. Excerpt from article: It was a balmy evening in March when roughly 75 people—most of them third, fourth and fifth-grade students—gathered at the parking lot of a city park in Wilmington, N.C. The group’s energy was electric as the sun went…

25th Anniversary Benefit Gala Recap

View photos from the spectacular night. Videos: HRH Prince Charles – Exemplar Award (accepting by video) Tony Juniper – accepting the Exemplar Award on behalf of HRH Prince Charles E.O. Wilson – Exemplar Award Ian Somerhalder – Superhero for Earth Award Hannah Testa – Youth Superhero for Earth Award Xiuhtezcatl Martinez – Youth Superhero…

Former CPF FoodCorps Service Member Lauren Ladov, Featured in National Geographic

Water and Life Lessons Posted: December 13 By National Geographic Online Dear Educators, Let’s Talk Water Have you and your students experimented with sprouting seeds in the classroom? Set up two growing stations with soil and seed. See what happens when one stations is watered and one is not. From your experiments, you’ll find that water…

Our very own Ain Chike is feature in the New York Times!

An Urban Gardener Who Grew Up to Be a Planeteer Posted: November 19 By The New York Times – Patrica R. Olsen Ain Chiké, 34, is an operations manager at the Captain Planet Foundation in Atlanta. Q. What is the Captain Planet Foundation, and what is your role there? A. We help students learn about the…

Appalachian Forest Heritage Area, Inc

Grantee: Appalachian Forest Heritage Area, Inc. – Elkins, West Virginia Project Title: Watershed awareness through youth snorkeling events on the Monongahela Nati Description: Schools in rural areas lack strong connections with outdoor programs and do not have the necessary equipment or capacities to engage in such activities. In the Central Appalachians, small towns and communities are…