Grades of Green Kicks-Off Earth Month

It's (almost) our favorite month of the year! We are thrilled to celebrate Earth Month 2021 by bringing you new stories weekly that highlight our students' awesome eco-projects, actions and even some events that you can participate in, too. Check out what our students are up to this week!

As part of the Climate Solutions Campaign, the Whitney High School Ecology and Wildlife Club pose with two of 150 tree saplings that the team sold in order to offset their school’s paper usage.

Redondo Beach Student Hosts Panel Featuring
State & Local Leaders

Thursday, April 1 from 7-8 pm PDT

Join Rylee Goldfarb's Plastic Pollution Solutions Panel discussion featuring panelists Samuel Liu, Deputy Chief of Staff for California State Senator Ben Allen, Anika Ballent, Education Director at Algalita Marine Research and Education Center, and Allie Bussjaeger, Director of Impact and Sustainability at human-I-T.

The panel will dive deep into the most pressing issues around plastic pollution, what the public can do to address the plastic pollution issues and reflect on themes from the award-winning documentary, The Story of Plastic. Registered attendees will also receive a link to watch The Story of Plastic documentary for free.

We are incredibly proud of Rylee and all the hard work she has put into her Grades of Green projects over the past nine years!

Take Doranelly's #LitterFreeLB Challenge!

April 1 - April 25

Doranelly, a local 8th-grade student Eco-Leader, is partnering with the City of Long Beach Office of Sustainability to challenge Long Beach Green Businesses and their customers to pick up litter throughout April.

How to participate: Pick up litter and post a photograph of your haul to Instagram and tag or mention your participating Long Beach Green Business. Posts should include the hashtag #LitterFreeLB and the handles @LBSustainability and @GradesofGreen. You can also email your photos and chosen business to sustainability@longbeach.gov.

Participants will receive awesome perks and discounts from
their favorite Long Beach Green Business!

Learn more & take Doranelly's Challenge!

Tree Planting in
Long Beach

Our Eco-Grant winning team from Mary Bragg Elementary School in Cerritos have organized a tree planting event on April 10th in partnership with the City of Long Beach and their Neighborhood Resource Center. They'll be planting 50 trees to combat the climate crisis, lower the temperature and clean the air in a section of Long Beach without adequate green space.

Meet the Roots of Life Team & Nunamaisha!

The Roots of Life student team from Beverly Vista Middle School and The Archer School have teamed up with conservation non-profit Nunamaisha, to help raise money to help the A’I Cofán indigenous community of northeastern Ecuador preserve their ancestral land. Watch the incredible video that these students created showcasing the importance of protecting the rainforest!

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