Brooklyn Compost Map
Brooklyn Compost Collective make an online and printed map highlighting compost work, and provide educational and outreach opportunities.
Brooklyn Compost Collective make an online and printed map highlighting compost work, and provide educational and outreach opportunities.
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.
This long-term project compiles healthy seasonal recipes using seasonal ingredients our students have cooked with throughout the year. Once developed and printed each student will receive a cookbook!
We make local fruits and veggies more accessible to our community by running the CSA, which partners with Golden Earthworm Farm on Long Island.
Our cooking demonstration features advice on what to do with CSA vegetables and how to prepare recipes from local chefs.
We are collecting all types of used batteries and recycling them to prevent them from going into the landfills.
Island Compost is a public school recycling system created to reduce organic waste while increasing soil fertility on Governors Island.
BrooklynShade offers free 2 hour clinics in affordable wooden Tree Guard construction and proper tree care.
A joint project, we attempt to empower others by growing herbs, flowers, and food while creating a sustainable and just food system.
Access to fresh produce is severely limited in the Bed-Stuy/Brownsville/Ocean Hill area.
Our project is to buy the hand tools necessary to plant the Daffodil Bulbs given out each year.
The Emerald Awards is an unpaid parks or green spaces volunteer recognition awards program held each year in November.
Our project will help reduce the number of used ink and toner cartridges from going into the landfill and releasing toxins.
Our cell phone recycling project will collect used phones and prevent them from just being thrown away and put them back into useful service as 911 only phones
Our project is to cleanup our local Vietnam Veterans Monument and promote community spirit by providing a clean, open space for people to come and sit.
BFTP's 3 day workshops will engage the students of GUGCS with reusable bag making workshops that will reduce the use of plastic bags in their community.
Help us build new beds and fencing to grow more food and accommodate more volunteers, community farmers, and pollinators on the site.
Queens Bike Bonanza & Rockaway Bike Parade
This project will give people a nice space outdoors. It would also create a good space to teach kids about community.
Students will learn about planting and growing crops, Composting, Vermiculture & Aquaculture.
Our project will be an ongoing project.
Global warming is demanding that humans acquire new consumption habits fast.
Help Hattie Carthan community garden create a summer Gardening with Tiny Tots program.
The environmental problem the project will address is how human waste (poop) contaminants that would go into our water can be properly handled by composting.
We'll use a rototiller to cultivate our farm on Governors Island for increased production, youth employment, and educational activities.
Renaissance needs to purchase recycling bins so we can reduce our school's waste, and promote a Green Agenda for our community!
Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx) is a community organization dedicated to Environmental Justice through innovative, economically sustainable projects that are informed by community needs.
Help facilitate increased use of already existing open space
<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>
Broadly, we wish to address the growing rate of diabetes, collapsing food economy, inequality of access to affordable organic produce, and the lapse of environmental education on food production in
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.
All over the NYC area, clean up a beach near you on September 19! Beach debris is not just unsightly, it poses a threat to humans and wildlife.
We prepare leaders for Learn to Row Day to involve the public in rowing traditional wooden (volunteer built!) Whitehall boats and a kids' pirate parade.
Bikesplorations is a free summer program that introduces high school students to urban planning and design while exploring NYC communities by bicycle.