Bronx Students Investigate Transit Pricing
Why does subway fare cost what it does? Who decides?
Fifteen Bronx public high school students will investigate that issue this summer, with your help!
Why does subway fare cost what it does? Who decides?
Fifteen Bronx public high school students will investigate that issue this summer, with your help!
NYLP provides job-training experience to Newark high school youth in environmental fields. The "Farm to Table" theme gives students an inside look at our current food system.
Roots Memphis Farm Academy is a farmer incubator program that educates, trains, and launches new sustainable farmers in the region.
We will learn to build a sustainable cooperative business, which will be a student run and owned credit union. It will address economic justice issues like student debt and green community development.
Yellow House NYC’s hope is to make the arts more accessible and bring them into local communities by awarding funds to deserving artists and students.
The Stone Soup Kitchen project by Urban Patch will help to make the inner city better by offering classes to people of all ages in the community how to eat healtheir (more fruits & vegetables) while saving money.
Support two youth education initiatives of EcoStation:NY, Bushwick's nonprofit dedicated to food justice and sustainable urban agriculture!
Queens Botanical Garden intends to obtain an Apple iPad to run an application called Google Translate. Our visitors come from all over the globe, speaking languages other than English.
Pedal Power Bike Blender - Teaches students about the importance of eating healthy, exercising, and energy production and conservation.
Install a solar panel system on the Eco-Shed of the Bushwick Campus Farm to provide clean energy for the school’s outdoor greenhouse, vertical farm and hydroponic systems.
VertiCulture is an aquaponics project in Brooklyn that aims to alleviate the environmental, health, and social problems associated with modern agriculture by promoting sustainable food production in urban environments.
Replacement of one hundred and four 300 watt incandescent bulbs with 12 watt LED bulbs across our NYC elementary school.
The New York City Prenatal Fitness Initiative will expand and promote access to this excellent form of activity for pregnant women.
Through the design and launch of a website, this campaign will garner support, provide information, and facilitate discussion about reducing our dependence on disposables in the food service industry.
Help NYC learn about the best stuff that happened at the National Bike Summit from March 20 to 22, 2012.
More healthy cooking classes! We're looking to fund FOUR children and ONE adult classes right now (5 total)! There is already a list of over 200 kiddies (and growing) eager to get cooking-- let's make it happen!
We’re seeking to purchase gardening equipment to transform an unused, vacant piece of city-owned land into a true community amenity where people can come together to garden, compost, and enjoy passive open space.
The goal is for the lesson to be brought to the home! Getting children involved in the cooking process, increasing awareness of healthy, nourishing food, and getting the whole family to cook together and eat together.
Creating open green space for the Greenpoint waterfront area.
Bushwick City Farm will raise organic free range chickens in Bushwick Brooklyn in order to provide the community with free organic eggs and chickening knowledge.
Request for funds to purchase building materials for reinforcement of enclosure for a turtle sanctuary in a native plant garden.
Skateboarding, music, food, and other activities bring neighbors together for a pleasant day in a park.
Solar Electric Energy Project will be expanded and include mini green roof. Hands-on workshops show New Yorkers that solar technology is a practical reality.
We will tackle issues surrounding storm water management by maximizing the potential uses of water by designing and constructing water catchments system.
Tent for PS 11's Farm Market - which is student-run and sells local, organic produce from a NYS Farm.
Nutrition Detectives helps kids measure and compare healthy food items.
This program teaches adults how to make their own non-toxic cleaning supplies.
Help us turn our school lunch waste into soil we can use! With compost bins and supplies, we will reduce our environmental impact and learn about science.
I plan to hold and coordinate an environmental awareness fair to help bring attention to what the community can do to become eco-friendly.
The Youth Tillers will help the Phoenix community gardeners build cold frames to extend the growing season.
Raise environmental consciousness using art and creative campaigns through the implementation of street tree signs and tree guards.
HSC will complete student projects in the Outdoor Classroom at PS 134 and hold a year-end "Garden Celebration" to increase project awareness and support.
The St George Day Festival encourages environmental stewardship through storytelling, spectacle and innovative educational & community-building activities.
An interactive day of park cleanup, public art & stewardship to bring local residents together around the renovation of the Allen & Pike Street Malls.
Brooklyn teens want to cook farm-fresh meals and share cooking demonstrations and recipes with the community.
Green is best. Help us spread the word on the detrimental effects bottle caps pose to the environment.
500 Hancock Block Association will beautify its block by cleaning and planting 10 planters and 29 tree pits to encourage neighborliness, safety and beauty.
Purchase composters to recycle garden waste into compost, reduce waste we throw out from the Meadow, pilot a household waste composting program
The Junior Composter course is an internship for youth from underserved communities to engage in composting, urban agriculture, and environmental activism.
Help a Central Brooklyn community garden continue their important outreach by building a year-round greenhouse for the local community farmer's market.
The Sunshine Garden Environmental Expansion furthers students' gardening engagement to frame studies on important environmental issues.
Students to build a 12' x 12' gazebo w/ seating and rainwater-harvesting - benefits the garden, community & educates students.
Our cooking demonstration features advice on what to do with CSA vegetables and how to prepare recipes from local chefs.