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Here are last year’s Green Heroes
Los Altos School District Living Classroom Program
Los Altos and Mountain View, CA
Los Altos School District Living Classroom Program is providing garden based, hands-on science and math lessons using school gardens and living things to teach science and math in order to make the learning relevant and real world.
Carmel Area Roots & Shoots Green Teen Micro-Grant Program
Carmel, IN
Carmel Area Roots & Shoots Green Teen Micro-Grant Program is a non-profit, volunteer organization that will use its grant to create a greener, more sustainable community through 22 youth-driven, action-based environmental projects. Volunteers will plant trees and organic gardens; distribute rain barrels, recycling containers and compost bins; host roadside and waterways clean-up events and more.
Students for Sustainability
Chattanooga, TN
Students for Sustainability is an alliance of high school students committed to improving the environment in their community. Baylor School students will create a county-wide alliance that will assist in the implementation of green strategies at participating schools in the county.
Rogue River Greenway Project
Grants Pass, OR
Rogue River Greenway Project is a recreational trail stretching 30 miles from Grants Pass to Central Point, Oregon, along the Rogue River. Their grant will fund various improvements along the trail, including building a trailhead, engineering, construction, signage, riparian restoration, purchasing waste receptacles, drinking fountains, benches and more.
Feed a Worm, Not a Landfill
Brooklyn, NY
Feed a Worm, Not a Landfill is a program organized by students of The Brooklyn New School. The students will construct four large-scale Vermiculture Compost Systems to house 80 pounds of red wiggler worms, which will compost 100 percent of the school’s food waste. In turn, the compost will be used to grow food in the existing schoolyard garden.
