The students will be involved in creating and maintaining a community garden. They will be active in amending the soil, spring and fall cleanups, planting items, removing weeds as they grow, watering on a daily basis, pruning, staking and caging plants as they grow and harvesting crops.

We are a blended learning school focused on teaching through face-to-face, virtual, and independent learning. Many of our students are on their computers for at least 15-20 hours a week. We feel that a void that we have is a lack of focus on physical and mental well being through exercise, health education, and mindfulness exercises.

Kindergarteners will learn about the impact waste has on the environment, and how they can do their part to ensure their school, homes, and community's are aware and participating in their "Green Movement".

Here comes the Sun

5th grade students will prepare an area for planting near a commonly used walkway to the playground. They will plant native species that are beneficial to pollinators to improve their schoolyard habitat. This will also provide hands-on learning opportunities about pollinators and their role in healthy ecosystems.

We will install rain barrels at our building to minimize storm water run-off that negatively impacts local streams and rivers. The rain barrels will allow use to sustainably irrigate school gardens for native pollinators.

Here comes the Sun

We will have a month of recycling and composting education with all six of our classrooms, including reading books, facilitating discussion, and practice sorting recyclables, compostables and trash according to our local guidelines. This month will culminate with our Dec.

This project seeks to bring all of our students together, from prekindergarten through grade 8, for the purpose of bringing our school garden beds to life.

USGBC staff will volunteer through local non-profit Martha's Table to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to students and their families in an under-served area of DC.

USGBC staff will volunteer through local non-profit Martha's Table to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to students and their families in an under-served area of DC.

We will remove dead plant material, move and straighten the garden sign, put down landscaping fabric, and mulch the garden space.

I am organizing a 30 day green challenge. I will be giving students 30 tips on how they can be sustainable in campus and give them free items along the way to help with making a bigger impact.

We recently renovated our courtyard and would love support in making it more inviting and appealing to our student body population. We want it to be a space that students and staff can enjoy and engage in being outdoors together.

Construct raised beds for school and community garden.

We will be setting up informational (and fun!) tables in the gym afterschool for the students to play games and experience diverse VR environments. They will learn more about how long it takes different materials to decompose and what clean energy will look like in the future.

Planting 50 trees on campus. Distributing 500 trees to the community. Educating school students about trees and the relationship between paper companies and tree planting.

We will have students, parents, and teachers cleaning up the garden area. We will be power washing the concrete garden blocks and painting them. We will be weeding, trimming trees, also. Students will also be painting murals at school on this day.

We will be giving 5 minute presentations on water conservation, electricity conservation and recycling. After we will work with the children to create posters to spread these messages and put them around the school.

To fully enrich our science curriculum, students need to experience science first hand. This allows students to full grasp the wonders and awes of the science fields.

Everyone can plant a tree and thus contribute to the improvement of its own environment while also providing its own contributing to the fight against climate change. In order to contribute to greening our environments and thereby highlight the importance and many benefits of trees and greenery, especially in urbanized environments.

We would like to create a scavenger hunt for the kids at Park Middle School. The purpose of this project is to create different interactive stations for the kids to become involved in and learn about the time it takes for different products/materials to decompose.

Get your hands dirty by building raised bed gardens, and planting flowers, herbs or vegetables with students at Elbridge Gale Elementary and the community of Wellington. The gardens provide teachers with an opportunity to teach lessons about plant cycles and the environment, as well as teamwork, responsibility and nutritional values.

Growing Green With Pride is a day of service hosted by Keep Prince George's County Beautiful, The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning and Prince George's Schools. On Saturday, October 19, 2019 from 8:00 am - 12:00 pm we will unite to support our beautification initiative making our school campus cleaner and greener.

USGBC staff will volunteer through local non-profit Martha's Table to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to students and their families in an under-served area of DC.

We hope to have Scouts and their families help prepare our Outdoor Classroom for the winter, but we also plan to schedule University of Nebraska-Lincoln students to help provide nature enrichment activities for younger children.

We make sanitary towels which are disposable because we want to keep our environment clean,we make art and crafts from waste papers and water hyacinth.
we also make pencil holders and picture frames from plastic bottles.

Parents and volunteers, including USGBC staff, will help transition the Yu Ying pond into a wild flower meadow by filling the drained pond with soil and gravel. The new flower meadow will be used as a teaching tool for students and will help absorb run-off water from the grounds.

Campaign for Reducing and Reusing Food Waste on Campus Cafeteria from noon-1 pm.

Students from Social Entrepreneurship (ENT 325) course will share information with the campus community on the impacts of food waste and also provide the opportunity to compost their food waste at the cafeteria.

Made recyclable Terrariums with second graders to help promote recycling and sustainability. The Terrariums were made out of two liter bottles.

9:00am-12pm on Saturday, October 5th: Come join us for a Campus & Garden Beautification day! Bring your gardening gloves, rakes, shovels, a hat, and some sunscreen as we get down and dirty and clean up the campus and 17 raised garden beds!

Preparing soil for planting of covers crops, weeding/mulching paths, preparing raised vegetable beds for planting of vegetable and fruit crops to be used in our SEED to Table program. Please bring your gloves, hat, water, your favorite garden tool, and your genuine good vibes! We will be working from 9am-till 12noon.

USGBC staff will volunteer through local non-profit Martha's Table to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to students and their families in an under-served area of DC.

We are having a school-wide garden clean up day! We will be working with partners from WSU SNAP-Ed to clear weeds, take up irrigation hoses, pull up compost bags around garden beds, and move perennial plants to prepare for the building of raised beds by our Eagle Scout partner.

USGBC staff will volunteer through local non-profit Martha's Table to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to students and their families in an under-served area of DC.

Forest Oak Middle School (FOMS) is a public school in Montgomery County, MD that serves nearly 900 students, the majority of which are Hispanic and African-American. The FOMS campus is unique in that it contains a variety of ecosystem types, including forest, stream, and meadow areas.

Join us as we create an outdoor commons area, build solar panels, create an apiary, paint school signage and prepare the garden for fall. We will activate spaces on the exterior of the Gary Comer Youth Center. These activities involve carpentry, painting, STEM and gardening.

Balfour Beatty Construction in partnership with the San Diego Green Building Council is hosting its 8th annual Green Apple Day of Service! This year we have the opportunity to host our event for Escondido Union School District, and we will be building a new outdoor learning space and reading garden at Felicita Elementary School.

Teachers, Students, and Parents will walk around the school property and clean up the trash and waste that has accumulated. Our school is near a busy street and some liter gets thrown out by our school grounds. We have been participating since the beginning of the GADOS began. This is Ogdensburg’s 8th annual Green Apple Day Of Service.

Working with Early Childhood Health Outdoors (ECHO) we will build out a portion of their outdoor play area with a focus on natural play areas.

Parents and volunteers, including USGBC staff, helped put up a fence around the school's food forest and garden area. The fence will prevent students from compacting the soil and allow more food to grow in the garden. The garden will continue to be used as a teaching tool and food garden for students.

Brummitt has secured the morning of Thursday, Sep. 26th at Taft Middle School (9191 Gramercy Drive, San Diego) to work with 2 science classes to plant a couple of raised garden beds and vertical planter pocket walls.

Qatar Eco-schools Congress 2019 is the first event in Doha to engage students from different schools to promote sustainability and green practices, exchange ideas and experiences, lessons learned.

We will be working on our Nature Trail. Pruning, weeding, etc...

Join us Saturday September 21st from 8:00am to 12:30pm for Millikan Garden Beautification Day to kickoff the Garden Revival Project. Our goal is to re-establish and maintain Millikans 1 acre campus gardens/farm through collaborations and partnerships within the school community and the larger community as well.

Our Plumosa Garden is ready for preparation for the new school year! Come dig in the dirt with us on Saturday, 9/21 from 9-12 am!

We will be painting our playground and doing hallway murals. Classrooms will be working on a rock mural and decorating water bottles to reduce our waste.

Our gardens and nature trail are in dire need of tending since the summer. We are in need of volunteers to help our students clean up our learning spaces. We need some weeding, pruning, etc..

The Tower Companies will be back at Woodend Sanctuary with ANS for the second year in a row! Woodend Sanctuary is a beautiful 40-acre property, which is currently undergoing a 50 year master restoration plan.

Campus wide mapping of recycling bins, composting bins, bike racks, and mapping of other parts of campus that contribute to the overall Sustainability of Northeastern.

Finney Elementary School needs help to complete construction of our school garden. Once the garden build is complete, our school can begin various programs. We will develop a garden club which our after-school program students will participate in as a volunteer service club.

Student volunteers will work with their adult mentors to clean up and beautify the grounds, perform a pond cleanup, and install panels for a goat exhibit at a local learning ranch that hosts classes for members of the special needs community and visitors from around the region as they learn about the importance of animal and earth cycles.

Haskell partnered with LaVilla School of the Arts, which is celebrating their 20th anniversary, to provide an improved experience when entering the school. The project included the addition of native landscaping to include a pollinator garden, educational signage, new seating and additional art-related improvements.

Aligned with the vision of Mr. Mahesh Ramanujam, CEO and President, GBCI and U.S. Green Building Council, GBCI India and Infosys joined hands to curate and conduct a learning tour for students from prominent architectural colleges in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh, ahead of Teachers’Day.

Please help me give my students a picnic table for our outdoor classroom so they can learn about our environment and their part in protecting and loving our planet.

The mission is to create an outdoor facility for education in mindfulness and environmental conservation. We want to accomplish this by restoring outdoor learning areas, provide opportunities to exponentially teach the science and economics of healthy farming and eating, and improve the sustainability of the Forest Oak Middle School campus.

Help me give my students a chance to earn their green thumbs with garden beds!

My Project

Help me give my students hand towels and the materials needed to wash and dry them naturally.

My first, second, and third graders will learn both practical life, environmental, science, and citizenship lessons as they work together in my Montessori classroom using, washing, drying, and caring for their new hand towels.

Help me give my students actual dishes and silverware instead of paper, plastic, and styrofoam as we learn to reduce, reuse, and recycle while preparing and sharing our lunchtime as a family.

Help me give my students a composter and rain barrel to use in their vegetable garden so they can help make the planet healthier as they learn to be healthier themselves.

My Montessori classroom integrates practical life into the daily curriculum which includes an outdoor learning environment and vegetable garden.

Help me give my students planters for our outdoor learning environment, so they can plant, care for, harvest, and then EAT vegetables as they learn more about plants and the world around them.

Getting Dirty to Get Cleaner Eating Habits! Potting Soil, Please!

Help me give my students organic potting soil and water-conserving coconut coir to plant their vegetable garden as they learn, grow, harvest, and EAT more nutritious snacks in our environmentally focused outdoor learning environment.

We Want to Welcome Our Fine Feathered Friends

Help me give my students a solar powered bird bath, bird feeder, and bird seed to observe, study, and help wild birds as we become better environmental citizens and make the world better for people and animals.

We Cannot Make a Tree, but We Really Need Three

Help me give my students three live trees for our outdoor learning environment which is currently surrounded by concrete and brick walls so they learn about and experience the benefits we all get from trees, while becoming environmentalists.

Go into any elementary school cafeteria at lunch and you will see a trash can overflowing with food waste. Despite our small school size, three to four large trash cans are filled every day with food waste and trash.

William S. Baer School is a public school in Baltimore City for children with severe disabilities. We would like to work with the school to create an outdoor track for the students to use for outdoor activities and physical training exercises.