Projects: Community Help
Be a catalyst for change and join us in fueling climate solutions with your innovative ideas and valuable connections.
Do you have expertise in one of the areas our campers are working in? Or perhaps you know someone else who would be good for a camper to connect with? Let us know!
Project Areas
Food system transformations. Working with restaurants to promote a healthy and sustainable approach to food.
Clothing & apparel. Creating a small business making socks from recycled materials.
Clothing & apparel. Developing a community resource center for clothing reuse, repair, and education
Elevating Indigenous voices in climate action. Creating a story about the Indigenous communities living in the area around the mountain Nevado de Huila in Colombia that discusses the ways the retreating glacier and climate change overall is affecting their lives.
BIPOC representation in sport. Creating a program that works with trail running events to address concerns of sustainability and diversity
Community engagement through sport. Developing a long trail along the Mississippi River. Reconnecting people to rivers as a way to demonstrate their importance to the American economy and the many ways they are being affected by pollution and climate change.
Clean energy campaign. Mobilizing stakeholders in a Colorado apartment complex to advocate for replacing a gas-fired boiler with a heat pump.
Clean energy campaign. Developing an educational program around the five projects being planned for hydropower on the Connecticut River as a way to get more people involved in the planning process.
Clean energy campaign. Pitching a renewable energy facility on the site of a biomedical plant where the participant works, and using this project as a template for pitching similar projects to businesses and factories everywhere
Green spaces in hospitals and clinics. Using indoor green spaces as an educational tool for human and environmental health.
Transportation. Developing a program to support cyclists in her community and develop improved infrastructure options for cyclists.
Intersection of libraries & sustainability. Developing the participant's skills and ability to use libraries as tools for climate action.
