2016 Funded projects |
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Smoky Row Elementary Green Team students promoted and distributed reusable shopping bags during Earth Week. Students learned how reusable bags save resources and produce less waste. Students created an educational brochure distributed to each student in his or her free reusable shopping bag, and video announcements described the benefits of using reusable rather than disposable bags.
Scouts in Boy Scout Troop 109 replanted a long neglected Woodbrook Butterfly Garden Teaching Butterfly Garden in a Woodbrook Elementary School courtyard area. The area now contains a mix of hardy annual and perennial flowers that will create habitats for Indiana’s native butterfly populations and pollinator insect and bird species. Second grade students will use this garden as part of their curriculum, learning about the life cycle of a butterfly.
Orchard Park Elementary School Green Cubs students planted a Tulip Poplar tree on campus this year to help everyone remember the many benefits of trees and their role in a healthy environment. The Green Cubs have learned and taught other students about how trees benefit our environment by providing habitats for insects and animals, protecting the soil from erosion, cleaning our dirty air, and providing shade and beauty.
Members of Boy Scout troop 120 were joined by community members to enhance and expand a nature trail near the Millbrook neighborhoods. Improvements included clearing the existing trails and expanding the trail along a creek to enable visitors to enjoy easy access to nature and wildlife on the DNR owned property. Scouts also created and installed simple post-markers to guide visitors through the trails and encourage people to enjoy and conserve natural areas.
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Members of Boy Scout troop 202 and their families built a large, wooden, 3-compartment compost bin system at the CCS Plots to Plates Organic Community Garden. Educational signs were added to the bins to teach gardeners how to use them. The community garden generates lots of organic waste, and composting will allow the garden scraps to be broken down and utilized to feed future garden plants.
Scouts in Boy Scout Troop 125 noticed that many Indiana Ash trees in the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church public areas had been destroyed by the invasive insect pest, the emerald ash borer. These large trees had provided habitats for many different animals while helping purify the air. The Scouts replaced ten of the removed Ash trees with a variety of healthy, drought tolerant and disease resistant shade trees native to Indiana.
Students in University High School science classes have found a unique way to use chickens to connect with nature, to learn about our food system, and to understand various complex ecosystems. Student volunteers and community members are maintaining and caring for the chickens on campus on a daily basis. Waste from the chicken coops will be composted and used to fertilize the UHS teaching and pollinator gardens,
both of which were funded by the Carmel Green Teens in previous years. 
Scouts in Boy Scout troop 576 created a self-guided tour of the CCS Plates to Plots Organic Community Garden. The garden tour consists of seven educational stations describing the areas of the garden that benefit the environment. The scouts worked with representatives from the school and garden to design and install educational signs at each station and to create hand-held maps leading a visitor from one station to the next.
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