A pilot distribution of loyalty cards is planned to be distributed to 2 local shops to inspire their customers to use less, waste less, and be loyal to the businesses that care for the environment that surrounds them.
The Friends of Haffen Park is seeking funding for The Summer of Butterflies, to create a butterfly garden in Haffen Park, to help the adults and children learn about these beautiful creatures.
Creating local solutions to the global climate crisis.
Help the Newkirk Cares Collaborative care for street trees along Newkirk Avenue!
We will be workshop facilitators and panelists, discussing food justice issues and how NYC’s faith community can engage with issues surrounding food justice.
The Flood Way is a film about floods, and the ways in which human society interacts with and shapes them. The film speaks about floods in general, but centers on the life and history of the Willamette River.
Last years events included movies night, introduction workshops, maintenance and manicures, garden parties, fashion events, comedy & burlesque and rides.
Volunteers will take the intensive and extensive pruner course and then be set loose to prune street trees in dire need of pruning.
"Whether it's a roof top garden, solar panels, edible walls or rain water capture, we make your green dreams a reality."
Children and adults alike will learn the proper techniques to design and build a sustainable trail and learn the techniques to ride singletrack trails while performing a highly aerobic activity.
Build an Electric vehicle for the delivery of raw ice cream. A local ice cream manufacturer in New York.
We envision an ultra-creative street sign project that marries destination pointers and green infrastructure elements such as stormwater management, green energy, alternative transportation.
Clean, green and beautify the east side of the BQE between 37th Avenue and Northern Blvd. in Jackson Heights.
Help fund workshops for BLT and MLT gardeners to learn about global warming and steps they can take to reduce their carbon footprint in their own gardens.
The Chicken Apprenticeship will teach community members the basics of raising hens in the city. The Apprenticeship includes hands on workshops independent work with the hens, readings and field trips.
The project for which we are asking funding would help us plant the backyard area. We'll plant seasonal vegetables (tomatoes, lettuce) in raised beds.
Environmental education will be addressed by teaching the students the importance of plants on human wellness, and the environment.
The need is for environmental beautification of this block. Uplifting the morale in the community in a healthier and self-esteem way.
Brooklyn Compost Collective make an online and printed map highlighting compost work, and provide educational and outreach opportunities.
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.
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.
Students will learn about planting and growing crops, Composting, Vermiculture & Aquaculture.
Global warming is demanding that humans acquire new consumption habits fast.
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.
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
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
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.
