The CHS Green Shower Power club received a Carmel Green Teen micro-grant for $750 to help fund new push-on auto-off buttons and low-flow shower heads in the school and community locker rooms. The new low-flow shower heads and push buttons will be utilized by 140 Carmel High School Swim Team athletes, 440 Carmel Swim Club members, and numerous student and community recreational swimmers.

Carmel Girl Scout Troop 801 created and implemented an event called the “Bikeyard 100″ at Creekside Middle School to encourage kids to ride their bicycles safely and more often. This eco-friendly idea prevents pollution by reducing the number of cars on the road and also promotes a healthy lifestyle. At the event, over 100 kids and over 70 adults agreed to sign a pledge to ride their bikes more often to help the environment.

Boy Scout Troop 202 built and installed multiple bat boxes to encourage bats to live in several Carmel area recreational locations: Northview Church, Badger Park and Shelbourne Carmel Dads Club athletic facilities, Clay Middle School and Cool Creek Park. Bats are known to consume up to 3000 insects each night, so they are natural insect killers, reducing the need for pesticides in locations where families enjoy the outdoors.

The University High School Green Club involved the entire school in planting 34 drought resistant trees, native to Indiana on school grounds. The private nonprofit school was founded in 2000, and its buildings are surrounded by cornfields, with few mature trees in sight. They selected four 12-foot trees that would start blooming soon and 30 smaller trees that will continue to provide environmental benefits to their school and community long into the future. They paired the plantings with an educational campaign about the importance of trees in helping clean our air.