Green Our Planet & Three Square Win American Honda Foundation Grant To...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 5, 2014By Shaun PinkLAS VEGAS, NV --- In a city where the local school district has some of the worst test scores in the nation and where high school graduation rates are...
View ArticleScientists Sound Alarm that Climate Change is Real
Mario J. Molina, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his work on understanding the depletion of the ozone layer, backs a stark new report on climate change.NYTMarch 18, 2014Early in his...
View ArticleMoapa Paiutes Go Solar, Coal Plant To Close in 2017
STEPHENS WASHINGTON BUREAUMarch 27 2014WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid confirmed Wednesday he is preparing a bill to expand the reservation of the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians north of Las Vegas.Reid said...
View ArticleUN Panel Issues Stark Warning on Climate Change: Worst Is Yet to Come
Panel’s Warning on Climate Risk: Worst Is Yet to ComeNYTMarch 30, 2014YOKOHAMA, Japan — Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world’s oceans,...
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Green Our Planet Holds First School Garden Conference in Las Vegas
Green Our Planet held its first school garden conference in Las Vegas on the first day of spring: March 20, 2014. The conference was held at Bracken Elementary School, one of the leaders in the school...
View ArticleNew UN Report Warns That World Must Halt Global Warming
A view of the Ivanpah solar thermal power facility recently completed on the Nevada/California border 40 miles from Las Vegas in the Mojave Desert. An array of mirrors concentrates the sun onto three,...
View ArticleStudent-Run Farmers Markets: Green Our Planet and Whole Foods Lend a Hand
By Shaun PinkLAS VEGAS--Shoppers who lined up in droves for the first ever student-run farmers markets outside of Whole Foods Market in Henderson, Nevada last May had no idea that the most interesting...
View ArticleGreen Our Planet, Three Square & American Honda Foundation Team Up To Train...
On August 18 and 19th, several dozen Clark County School teachers received training from LifeLab of California in how to teach students in newly-installed Outdoor Garden Classrooms at their schools....
View ArticleGreen Crowdfunding Site Would Have Saved Coolest Cooler Project $664,261
Thirty-nine-year-old Ryan Grepper’s first attempt to crowdfund his record-breaking Coolest Cooler idea on Kickstarter.com initially landed him not the thirteen million dollars he recently raised—but...
View ArticleGreen Our Planet, Three Square and CCSD Launch First STEM Garden Lessons...
Las Vegas—Two nonprofit organizations along with the Clark County School District (CCSD) launched the first ever kindergarten through fifth grade (K-5) school garden lessons on Wednesday, Oct 22nd,...
View ArticleFree Crowdfunding Org Wins CEA Award
January 7, 2015LAS VEGAS, NV --- The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® has awarded a $65,000 grant to a unique free crowdfunding organization, Green Our Planet, which has just launched...
View ArticleSchool Garden Conference in Las Vegas Largest Held in Nevada
School Garden Conference showcased growing city-wide school garden movement, spearheaded by local nonprofit based at The Innevation Center at SwitchLas Vegas, Nevada (May 16, 2015) – Green Our Planet...
View ArticleGreen Our Planet Co-Founders Ciara Byrne & Kim MacQuarrie
From the Article:Desert Gem: Ciara Byrne and Kim MacQuarrieEmmy Award Winning Filmmakers Create a Nourishing Legacy in Las Vegas by Founding the Nonprofit, Green Our PlanetBy Marsala RypkaLuxury Las...
View ArticleGreen Our Planet and Desert Oasis High School Partner to Produce Special...
Two years ago, a special needs teacher at Desert Oasis High School, Jennifer Davis, had a dream: to build a garden where her special needs students could learn vocational skills that would allow them...
View ArticleGreen Our Planet Completes STEM Curriculum Training For Teachers
During three Saturdays in April, Green Our Planet and the KJS Family Foundation in partnership with Regenerative Edge-ucation offered three separate workshops for teachers at three local schools. The...
View ArticleGreen Our Planet and NDA Host Third Annual School Garden Conference
On April 30th, Green Our Planet held its Third Annual School Garden Conference, organized in partnership with the NV Dept of Agriculture (NDA), the Clark County School District, and Innvevation. Some...
View ArticleGreen Our Planet and Desert Oasis High School Partner to Produce Special...
Two years ago, a special needs teacher at Desert Oasis High School, Jennifer Davis, had a dream: to build a garden where her special needs students could learn vocational skills that would allow them...
View ArticleNew UN Report Warns That World Must Halt Global Warming
A view of the Ivanpah solar thermal power facility recently completed on the Nevada/California border 40 miles from Las Vegas in the Mojave Desert. An array of mirrors concentrates the sun onto three,...
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