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

Solar Arbor at 6/15 Green

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,023

Shade Garden at DeWitt Clinton Park

This is an individual, ongoing restorative and maintenance project in a small NYC park in Hell's Kitchen area performed on a volunteer basis.

NEEDS: $0 of 173 + Volunteers

Our Neck Of The Woods

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.

NEEDS: $0 of 616 + Volunteers

Lovely Little Storage Shed

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!

NEEDS: $0 of 345

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

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

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

Garden Food

To give student at our school a chance to learn about farming, gardening, and healthy eating.

NEEDS: $0 of 162 + 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

Farm City

Educational programs investigate urban agricultural practices in which farmers, environmentalists, architects & artists share experience, skills & intentions.

NEEDS: $0 of 3,240 + Volunteers

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

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

Chelsea Street Tree Signage Exhibit

Raise environmental consciousness using art and creative campaigns through the implementation of street tree signs and tree guards.

NEEDS: $0 of 4,776

Canning Workshop

This program to teach the basics and benefits of canning.

NEEDS: $0 of 144 + 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

Brooklyn Park Glass

Collecting and recycling broken glass in Brooklyn parks.

NEEDS: $0 of 227 + Volunteers

Bellerose Beautification Project

<p>The project will enhance tree health and the overall green presence along Jericho Turnpike,Bellerose. This will help overall cleanliness and beautification.</p>

NEEDS: $0 of 288

Abraham Lincoln Seniors Glory Gardens

Glory Gardens wishes: 2 gardens with flowers, plants & healthy veggies. It keeps the seniors occupied and gives them a sense of pride.

NEEDS: $0 of 540 + 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

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

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

Hike the Heights 2011

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!

NEEDS: $0 of 1,502 + Volunteers

Spring Cleaning & Planting Week

500 Hancock Block Association will beautify its block by cleaning and planting 10 planters and 29 tree pits to encourage neighborliness, safety and beauty.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,096

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

Rays Of Hope

Let's light the way for "Rays OF Hope" to shine bright!

NEEDS: $0 of 202

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

Bed-Stuy Community Farm Market Greenhouse

Help a Central Brooklyn community garden continue their important outreach by building a year-round greenhouse for the local community farmer's market.

NEEDS: $0 of 2,310

Veterans Square Beautification Project

We will cleanup and beautify Veterans Square, a public Green Street in Rosedale, Queens in time for Memorial Day services

NEEDS: $0 of 110 + Volunteers

P.S. 107 Sunshine Garden

The Sunshine Garden Environmental Expansion furthers students' gardening engagement to frame studies on important environmental issues.

NEEDS: $0 of 1,150

Urban Workshop

Students to build a 12' x 12' gazebo w/ seating and rainwater-harvesting - benefits the garden, community & educates students.

NEEDS: $0 of 220

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