2005-2006- Project Stories

8 Jan 2007 -

Friends' Central Students take their community by storm with their campaign to put a compact fluorescent light bulb in every nearby business and household.

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8 Jan 2007 - Students at the Philadelphia School were busy this year! See what they've been up to with their various habitat restoration projects. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Maritime students found an unlikely suspect creating an unhealthy environment for the student body: soap dispensers. Find out exactly what was going on with the soap dispensers and learn how the Earth Force class solved the problem. More...

8 Jan 2007 - These Maritime students find a unique solution to help improve indoor air quality at their windowless school. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Masterman students set out to conduct research about indoor air and water quality and recycling. They then created educational kits on each of these topics to educate their peers about those topics. More...

8 Jan 2007 - “Because of you I think I am more interested about the things around us,”
Fatima responded after being asked what she had gained from taking part in
the Green City Youth program. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Living along a rural section of Darby Creek and seeing deer in his backyard sparked Ewen Levick’s interest in the damage their over population has caused to the vegetation in Valley Forge National Park. More...

8 Jan 2007 - In world politics, energy issues have become very important. Yet even on
this grand scale, choices made by individuals and small organizations can
have a big effect, so say Wissahickon Charter School students. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Teacher Judi Eastburn has become an expert on how to fully integrate real world math skills into her environmental science classes. Find out how her students turn data into real world problem solving with their school recycling program. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Students at Grover Washington decided to beautify their school, but they knew it would be a community effort since one part of campus was a common dumping ground. Learn how these students tapped community resources to put an end to the dumping and beautify the school. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Jeanne Bender’s class began their Earth Force project in mid-September by
planting various flowers and a tree on their school grounds. With the help of Larry Stier from Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, the class planted sunflowers, roses, daises, columbine flowers and even a blue spruce tree. More...

8 Jan 2007 - School lunches, uniformly described by students in Rosemary Elliott’s Allied Health class at Swenson High School as “nasty,” launched them into a project looking at nutrition and health. Globs of frozen cheese and More...

8 Jan 2007 - These Friends' Central students were determined to do something productive with all of the food scraps that were being wasted daily in their cafeteria.  Read more to find out what they did. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Patrick Perti’s class at Swenson Arts and Technical School decided that they wanted to do an environmental project that directly affected people in need. After researching a number of options and speaking with professionals and More...

8 Jan 2007 - Find out how a group of Friends' Central eighth graders convinced their school administration to try out biodiesel in some of their school buses. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Frankford High School students studies various global environmental issues, and found ways to curb their environmental impacts at home. Find out what students did and learn about the mural they helped create. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Clay Schofield’s class was eager to improve their school community and
quickly agreed on developing a schoolyard greening project. They connected
with Kensington WOLF Program students and even received trees from the
tree farm for use in their project. More...

8 Jan 2007 - See how different soils measure up in green roofing. Friends' Central students did a study and presented their findings at the Delaware Valley Science Fair. More...

8 Jan 2007 - The 7th graders of Sulzberger Middle School began their project by collaborating with the other five Green City Youth (GCY ) schools. The schools began by exploring their community and interacting with community experts. More...

8 Jan 2007 - “It’s a forest of invasives!” the Earth Force team exclaimed about the state of local natural areas, so they sprang into action. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Oprah Winfrey was the unlikely inspiration for Judy Winship’s 10th grade
class at Upper Dublin High School. A couple of the students saw an More...

8 Jan 2007 - Terri Maas Anger’s classes at W.B Saul High School took on a variety of
exciting service learning projects. Read on to hear about the variety of projects one class did with Fairmount Park. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Radnor students built on existing inter-school ties to restore the garden of the Gesu School in Philadelphia which had been overtaken by weeds and
trash. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Hear what Joseph Drumm has to say about his experience with Earth Force's partnership with Green City Youth. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Kensington CAPA students tackled low recycling rates at their school. Read more to find out how they boosted recycling rates. More...

8 Jan 2007 - See how this group from Saul helped campaign for better recyling in the City of Philadelphia. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Earth Force students at Northeast High School, in partnership with YouthWorks, worked on recycling at their school and also did an intensive watershed study. Read on to find out what they did to help improve their watershed. More...

8 Jan 2007 -

Students at Bucks County Alternative School (BCAS) took the initiative to create a school-wide paper recycling program.

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8 Jan 2007 - Find out how this group of fourth and fifth graders restored a habitat on their urban school campus. More...

8 Jan 2007 - The 4th graders and special needs students of Bache Martin School, guided by teachers Lisa Liu and Louise Kiderry, decided to take on streetscapes as their project. More...

8 Jan 2007 - The Swenson Arts and Technology School’s culinary arts students
combined their horticultural interests and their culinary talents in a
project that honored the Pennsylvania National Guard 28th Infantry Division
Stryker Brigade. More...

8 Jan 2007 - See how students at Friends' Central built on a project started last school year that involved improving energy efficiency at schools across the globe. More...

8 Jan 2007 - The students of Ms. Avery’s fourth grade class from Willow Dale
Elementary School, decided that their Earth Force project would be to
build a Butterfly Garden. The class learned that the nearby butterfly
habitats were being destroyed for More...

8 Jan 2007 - See how students at Turner Middle School got rid of dangerous invaders at a nearby nature center. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Robin Bratt’s class took on topics of global significance this year: climate change, global warming, ozone layer depletion, acid rain and
overpopulation. Based on their research, More...

8 Jan 2007 - For nine months, Phyllis Green’s eighth grade science class decided to focus on natural disasters as their Earth Force project. Looking at brushfires, blizzards, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, lightening, mudslides, More...

8 Jan 2007 - Friends' Central Trasher Smasher groups discovered a creative solution to litter at local public bus stops.  More...

8 Jan 2007 - See what a team of classes at W.B. Saul can do when it comes to urban forestry and landscaping in this article. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Find out how these Pennridge High School students are saving pine trees on campus from being killed by development. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Cheltenham High School students explored the benefits of trees and campaigned to have some planted on campus. The students were exitced to have the opportunity to do the greening themselves. More...

8 Jan 2007 - Phoenixville Middle School students made the best of their local resources this year by tapping into an interesting lot of projects. More...