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

Composting Class

Our compost project teaches the benefits of composting, provides bins and worms, and instructions on and how to start and keep a bin.

NEEDS: $0 of 115 + 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

Composting in North Brooklyn

Help us install a new fence that will help to keep us separated from our doggy friends next door and improve overall site operations.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,471 + Volunteers

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

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!

NEEDS: $0 of 517

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

River Garden Tree Pit Project

Most tree pits are used as garbage cans or to relieve dogs. We're teaching the importance of trees in our community and our role as stewards. Trees that are cared for help make a neighborhood beautiful and healthy.

NEEDS: $0 of 120 + 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

Canning Workshop

This program to teach the basics and benefits of canning.

NEEDS: $0 of 144 + Volunteers

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

Let's Talk Trash, Beyond the Can

Let's Talk Trash, Beyond the Can, is the beginning of a beautiful movement, trash cans that will live permanently in Astoria Park.

NEEDS: $0 of 425 + Volunteers

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

Xquizit Greens at 143 Stockholm

Help us build a new people's garden in Bushwick. We'll be strengthening community and growing healthy, local economies at this positive social gathering point and greening action hub.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,877 + Volunteers

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

Food for Thought

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 375

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

Let's build a healthier, greener Brownsville

Let's empower students & families in central Brooklyn's food deserts to beautify, compost, build edible gardens & healthy places & joyful farm stands to turn gray into green 

NEEDS: $0 of 10,146 + Volunteers

Jackson Heights 78th Street Playstreet

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,402

Decatur Tree Garden Murals

Looking to fund a local artist to create signage for our arboretum that sits on former vacant and abandoned lots in the Carnes neighborhood

NEEDS: $0 of 309

Homewood Agricultural Project

 Turning vacant lots in Pittsburgh into hands-on opportunities for organic farming.

NEEDS: $0 of 225 + 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

Bronx Greenhouse at Intervale Green

WHEDco, a non-profit in the Bronx, will construct a greenhouse to support its farming program aimed at creating opportunities for residents to learn about sustainability.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,892 + Volunteers

Community Playground

We are partnering with KaBOOM! to build a playground in Tampa Heights!

NEEDS: $0 of 235 + 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