Telluride Grown
In a high mountain town Telluride Grown will build two demonstration aquaponic models to raise mercury-free fish and produce organic vegetables as initial steps to create local aquaponic greenhouses.
In a high mountain town Telluride Grown will build two demonstration aquaponic models to raise mercury-free fish and produce organic vegetables as initial steps to create local aquaponic greenhouses.
Roots Memphis Farm Academy is a farmer incubator program that educates, trains, and launches new sustainable farmers in the region.
LYRIC is transforming San Francisco public schools into communities where LGBTQQ youth are celebrated for who they are and encouraged to be who they want to be.
An intimate participation in agriculture through windowfarming encourages students to think about where their food comes from while exploring innovative solutions for farming in urban settings.
The garden will consist of 6 raised bed plots that will be available to Central City South residents free of charge. Many garden club members are anxious for the opportunity to contribute to the garden!
A sunken garden in an old replica mill raceway to green our city's oldest neighborhood and create an interpretative window of Rochester's first EcoDistrict as we green this rustbelt city.
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.
Help us install low-flow showerheads and sink aerators at 9 residences on the campus of Misericordia, a non-profit that provides residence and services to adults with developmental disabilities.
A school sponsored community volunteer day to clean and beautify our school’s street trees and green spaces.
The Most Fabulous Green Wall Ever Built supports West Oakland’s sustainable economy by building a striking green wall at American Steel Studios using recycled materials, fed with rainwater.
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.
We will remove Tamarisk from the banks of the San Gabriel River. We will plant trees to help restore the habitat of the area.
Neighborhood Foods, a West Philly low-income food coop, needs high tunnels for its farm to boost production for a food desert fraught witht diet-related health problems.
We're minimizing the use of well water and increasing water retention capacity through practices such as a cistern and pump system and rain barrels, appropriate plant selection and organic manure use.
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.
This free class offers low income pregnant moms in Harlem and surrounding areas a safe, fun, and affordable prenatal fitness option. Great for mom's physical health and also builds community!
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.
A collaborative effort to utilize the vacant land parcel at Patchen Avenue and Putnam to create a garden and small play area.
Help us build a rainwater harvesting system to water our urban garden!
Through a season on the Youth Farm, participants become intimately familiar with the tasks, challenges, and rewards of growing many varieties of vegetables and flowers appropriate to our region and community.
ALL CITY ACRES will make print maps of potential spaces for community-driven projects available in the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and Manhattan. We are building on the successful tactics of 596 Acres in Brooklyn.
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.
Composting in western Queens will bring more materials, workshops, and infrastructure for composting to Astoria, Long Island City, Jackson Heights, Sunnyside, and Woodside.
O2 Compost @ Brooklyn Grange will bring solar-powered composting to the world’s largest rooftop farm.
We make local, sustainably-grown fruit and veggies accessible to all regardless of income!
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.
Cleaning the Gowanus Canal through an alternative arts and science project.
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.
Providing access to healthy food & building community in West Philly
Just Food's City Chicken Project is providing PS 11 with support & training to build a chicken coop in our school garden.
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!
30 students will beautify a local community garden in the Mount Eden area of the South Bronx addressing food injustice with performance art.
Tree care team volunteers need funds to purchase two sturdy tree guards to protect young street trees.
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.
We need to buy seed starting supplies in order to get an early jump on the Spring planting season. The beds will be planted with items that the school students will sow, water and then harvest.
We need funds to purchase fresh soil and compost to help young street trees thrive this spring and beautify busy pedestrian blocks. Help us transform our streetscape into a greener, more welcoming neighborhood.
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.
The McGolrick Park Schools Alliance will organize, promote, and lead monthly clean-ups, events, and workshops from March 2012-November 2012 in McGolrick Park.
Hike for health! Help us fundraise to encourage hundreds of people to hike through beautiful northern Manhattan.
This is an exciting, traditional form of prenatal fitness and childbirth preparation accessible to low income women to support health throughout the pregnancy.
We reached our goal of $1,296 to participate in the academy! Thank you! Any additional donations will go to a fund for materials and expenses for our coop.
Chain Reaction is Boston’s first ever youth-run afterschool mobile bike shop and training center. Chain Reaction provides bicycle education, repair and sales in Boston neighborhoods without retail bicycle shops.
The project, Coop Academy, is an intensive 16 week training and support program that will help us develop Nourishing Cities, a worker-owned green businesses.
We are fundraising for a 16-week business boot camp run by Green Worker Cooperatives for cooperative business that better our community and our planet.