Falling Spring Elementary Garden

Build a raised garden bed where students can grow vegetables and learn to connect with and care for their environment.

NEEDS: $0 of 648

Urban Meadow Compost Project

Purchase composters to recycle garden waste into compost, reduce waste we throw out from the Meadow, pilot a household waste composting program

NEEDS: $0 of 862

Composting the Five Borough Bike Ride

Composting the Five Borough Bike Tour will reduce waste being trucked out, and create compost for five school gardens.

NEEDS: $0 of 428 + Volunteers

Junior Composter Course

The Junior Composter course is an internship for youth from underserved communities to engage in composting, urban agriculture, and environmental activism.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,262

Kids for Compost!

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 337

Island Compost

Island Compost is a public school recycling system created to reduce organic waste while increasing soil fertility on Governors Island.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,230 + Volunteers

Turning a Classroom into a Garden

The children will learn and then manage a compost bin throughout the school year and then periodically use the compost to help grow plants and herbs in our classroom. 

NEEDS: $0 of 324

Myrtle Village Green

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,000

Less = More Green Map of NYC

 

Amplifying practical solutions, the Less = More Green Map of NYC highlights local waste reduction sites and strategies with handy neighborhood and citywide interactive maps.

NEEDS: $0 of 469 + Volunteers

St. Nicholas Miracle Garden

We are building a compost center and a vertical garden using recycled bottles and a wood frame and cable system. This will allow many gardeners to grow herbs, greens and flowers, and to beautify the neighborhood. 

NEEDS: $0 of 1,681 + Volunteers

A Workshop for the Community

At Chenchita's Community Garden, we will install a rain harvest roof, allowing us to collect water and host FREE workshops for the community.

NEEDS: $0 of 780 + Volunteers

Nutritional Detectives

Nutrition Detectives helps kids measure and compare healthy food items.

NEEDS: $0 of 52

FREE eggs on the Free Range in Brooklyn!

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 500

Farm to Table and Then Some

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.

 

NEEDS: $0 of 1,680

Bushwick Library Community Garden

The Bushwick Public Library Children's Garden Project will protect green space, encourage gardening, and foster good stewardship practices.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,150 + Volunteers

What's sprouting up at MS 88

Help establish the first community garden at a high needs middle school in Brooklyn.

NEEDS: $0 of 805 + Volunteers

Going Green in Queens 2012

Going Green in Queens is an annual networking, educational and greening conference, free and open to the public. Coming March 24, 2012!

NEEDS: $0 of 2,038 + Volunteers

Going Green in Queens 2011

Going Green is an annual greening,network and educational conference designed to make us all more environmentally aware.

NEEDS: $0 of 443 + Volunteers

5th Annual St George Day Festival

The St George Day Festival encourages environmental stewardship through storytelling, spectacle and innovative educational & community-building activities.

NEEDS: $0 of 540

Brownsville Student Farm

Brownsville Student Farm is an oasis of plant and animal life in the middle of Brooklyn. We focus on youth education, providing a green community space and raising awareness about health and nutrition.

NEEDS: $0 of 5,294 + Volunteers

Sustainable Flatbush Healing Herb Garden

Our culinary and medicinal herb garden will serve as an outdoor classroom to demonstrate the benefits of herbs as both food and medicine.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,802 + Volunteers

Meetup with Green Map this Summer!

<p>Get together and celebrate green living in NYC! Learn about the "Green Apple" and help spread awareness and map out social change in our community - and beyond!</p>

NEEDS: $0 of 452 + Volunteers

NEW Farm + FREE food in Brooklyn!

We want to convert a vacant lot into an urban farm that produces free veggies and eggs and provides free services to the community.

NEEDS: $0 of 178 + Volunteers

The Brooklyn Student Credit Union

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,000