Western Queens Compost Initiative
The WQCI is a dynamic partnership of CSA's, gardeners, and youth & civic associations, providing leadership, service, and education in composting!
The WQCI is a dynamic partnership of CSA's, gardeners, and youth & civic associations, providing leadership, service, and education in composting!
Help us maintain and improve our street trees and tree pits.
Request for funds to purchase building materials for reinforcement of enclosure for a turtle sanctuary in a native plant garden.
The compost bins will provide soil for the garden while engaging residents in discussions on waste reduction as part of the garden's community activities.
Help Sustainable Flatbush grow the Church Avenue Communal Garden, and create a beautiful green space for the Flatbush community to enjoy.
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.
This is an individual, ongoing restorative and maintenance project in a small NYC park in Hell's Kitchen area performed on a volunteer basis.
Daffodil bulbs will be distributed as part of the annual Daffodil Project and planted in memory of those that perished on 9/11.
Our project is to properly prune/care for street trees. We are working with Queens Coalition for Parks to give trees the care they need.
To purchase a queen bee and workers for the new repaired hive
Kids and adults will plant flowers around ugly tree stumps, make curb-your-dog signs, and install waste-bag dispensers, to deal with waste and beautify.
It's not sexy, but it's so important. Our tools are getting rusty and hazardous. Our brand new community garden needs a storage shed!
Let's Talk Trash, Beyond the Can, is the beginning of a beautiful movement, trash cans that will live permanently in Astoria Park.
The 78th St. Play Street turns an under-utilized street in park-starved Jackson Heights into public open space for sports, arts and social interaction.
Going Green is an annual greening,network and educational conference designed to make us all more environmentally aware.
To give student at our school a chance to learn about farming, gardening, and healthy eating.
Students will create and maintain a vegetable garden, and develop awareness in healthful eating habits and a respect for the earth that provides us food.
Educational programs investigate urban agricultural practices in which farmers, environmentalists, architects & artists share experience, skills & intentions.
Help us install a new fence that will help to keep us separated from our doggy friends next door and improve overall site operations.
Our compost project teaches the benefits of composting, provides bins and worms, and instructions on and how to start and keep a bin.
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.
This program to teach the basics and benefits of canning.
The Bushwick Public Library Children's Garden Project will protect green space, encourage gardening, and foster good stewardship practices.
Collecting and recycling broken glass in Brooklyn parks.
To construct & maintain an active bee colony in Narrows Botanical Gardens.
<p>The project will enhance tree health and the overall green presence along Jericho Turnpike,Bellerose. This will help overall cleanliness and beautification.</p>
Glory Gardens wishes: 2 gardens with flowers, plants & healthy veggies. It keeps the seniors occupied and gives them a sense of pride.
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.
Composting the Five Borough Bike Tour will reduce waste being trucked out, and create compost for five school gardens.
Going Green in Queens is an annual networking, educational and greening conference, free and open to the public. Coming March 24, 2012!
Cleanup and maintenance of the Queens Boulevard tree pits in Forest Hills and Rego Park.
The creation of a small biodigester/reactor to understand and measure the benefits of CH4 gas derived from a green source for wide-scale public use.
Brooklyn teens want to cook farm-fresh meals and share cooking demonstrations and recipes with the community.
CLIMB hosts Hike the Heights in Northern Manhattan for hiking on the "Giraffe Path" and a community party with arts, games, healthy food, and active fun!
Help us raise funds for 3 metal treeguards to protect gardens around newly planted street trees adopted by Sra. Petra, Sra. Lourdes and John.
500 Hancock Block Association will beautify its block by cleaning and planting 10 planters and 29 tree pits to encourage neighborliness, safety and beauty.
The Astoria Park Alliance is programming a car-free Shore Blvd on August 7, 14 & 21. Help us open the streets with free programming and events for all ages.
Purchase composters to recycle garden waste into compost, reduce waste we throw out from the Meadow, pilot a household waste composting program
The environmental tent provides a venue for organizations or individuals who are actively working to promote environmental awareness.
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.
We will cleanup and beautify Veterans Square, a public Green Street in Rosedale, Queens in time for Memorial Day services
We want to extend our growing season to feed more people in the community!
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.