GreenWorks!

Seventh and eighth graders at Memorial School in Eatontown, NJ revitalized an underutilized courtyard. Science classes planned the project and an after-school club organized composting.

For the past ten years, Houlton High School outdoor education students have collected sap from trees on the school property, to make maple syrup. With the help of this 2009 grant, students built a sugarhouse for sap storage and sugar production, also providing a space where learning can take place sheltered from the often bitter cold Maine spring.

Cross Country Elementary and Middle Schools developed an outdoor classroom at the Irvine Nature Center in Owings Mills, MD.  The classroom focuses on issues related to the Chesapeake Bay region and is integrated with the environmental education initiative of this GreenSchool!

Montana Women in Timber teamed up with students, faculty, and volunteers from Glacier Gateway Elementary School to plant native trees and seedlings around campus to provide green play space.

High school students in rural North Carolina teamed up with a local land trust, community volunteers, government officials, and educators to restore natural habitat along the Little Tennessee River Greenway.

Students of Upper Arlington High school in Columbus, OH teamed up with Capitol Square Rotary Club to design and construct a self-guided Meditation Nature Trail at Shepard's Corner, an ecology center of the Dominican Sisters of Peace.

Since the 2007 Angora Fire, the South Tahoe community has taught younger children about trees and help them reforest the public land, fostering a lifelong connection between the community and the site.

Inner-city middle school students learned about forest/woodland habitats. They learned how to identify invasive species and visited local spaces to inventory, research, and manage invasive species. 

Fifteen students in the green school committee and more than 30 other students in Salt Lake City made 250+ gallons of fuel from used vegetable oil collected from a local restaurant.  The school bus shuttled students to the nearby mountain, a green demonstration house, a local recycling facility, on dozens of field trips for various classes, and even to an environmental youth conference in L.A.