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Planting A Seed: Metro Schools are Making a Difference for the PlanetPosted: April 1By Sherry V. Crawley- Atlanta ParentRead Article

Meet Laura Turner Seydel -Soar with The Captain Planet Foundation Posted: March 31By Ruksana Hussain – Perimeter North Lifestyle magazine Photography John Amis and Laura Turner SeydelRead Article

Click here to see video on the Floating Classroom Small Grant project. Click here to see video on CPF Learning Gardens Program

News report from YNN Rochester – Rochester, NYPosted: March 25 at 6:24amElementary schools in upstate New York can enter to win a “Learning Garden Grant.” Tops Friendly Markets, Dole and the Captain Planet Foundation are working together to present two schools with learning gardens…View video Apply for Tops Friendly Markets grant here

California is the birthplace of the school garden movement, with ground zero located at King Middle School in Berkeley. This school partnered with Alice Waters and the Chez Panisse Foundation to turn an asphalt waste land into a thriving Edible Schoolyard that has become central to the way King Middle teaches and learns and an … Read more

Waiting for a miracle won’t save the earth. But making a miracle happen? That’s easy. Join us in supporting the powerful work of the meaningful maker movement among African youth. Have you ever stopped to think what you could build to make your life and the lives of others happier, cleaner, and healthier? One group of Kenyan … Read more

In partnership with ArcelorMittal, Captain Planet Foundation rolled its Planeteer Club program into: Deanna Davenport Elementary and the Boys & Girls Club at Canutillo Elementary in Vinton, TX; South Haven Elementary, Central Elementary, and Crisman Elementary in Portage Township Public Schools (Burns Harbor, IN); and Mound STEM School (PreK-8) and the Boys & Girls Club Broadway … Read more

The Captain Planet Foundation is proud to be one of the many Atlanta Science Festival sponsors. As a sponsor we will host an educators workshop and interactive booth at the Exploration Expo in Centennial Olympic Park. We hope to expand the communication around science education and engage the public in activities related to STEM education. … Read more

First of 12 Captain Planet School Learning Gardens Opens in Ventura County -Posted January 29, 2014 / http://www.vcstar.com The Captain Planet Foundation (CPF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring the next generation of environmental stewards, has created its first Learning Garden in Ventura County with help from Food for Thought Ojai and Agromin. The garden is at Rio Del … Read more

Contest Seeks to Reward Environmental Stewards in Schools Across the Country with $5,000 cash prize (January 29, 2014) – DOLE Fruit Bowls® and Captain Planet Foundation are teaming up to host the “DOLE Fruit Bowls & Captain Planet Foundation’s Learning Garden Challenge.” The contest will recognize schools (K-8) that have established school gardens that provide … Read more