Carmel Green Teen Micro-Grant Program
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    • 2018 Projects >
      • Helping Ninjas Help Pollinators
      • Helping Ninjas Help Garden and Compost
      • This is NOT a Plastic Bag
    • 2017 Projects >
      • UHS Bat Boxes
      • Don'f Flip It, Save It! - Water Bottles
      • River Road Habitat Restoration
    • 2016 Projects >
      • It's in the Reusable Bag
      • Plots to Plates Gardens Tour
      • Millbrook Nature Trail
      • UHS Poultry Project
      • Green Cubs Tree Planting
      • OLMC Tree Replacement
      • Woodbrook Butterfly Garden
      • Turn Up for Compost
    • 2015 Projects >
      • OPE Recycling Cubs
      • Goodbye Plastics 2
      • UHS Monarch Waystation
      • UHS Hydration Station
      • CHS Earth Fair
      • CHS NHS Event Recycling
    • 2014 Projects >
      • Girl Scout Teaches Conservation
      • Carmel Pollinator Garden
      • Trees For Future Generations
      • CHS TEDx Conference
      • UHS Campus Green Up
    • 2013 Projects >
      • CHS Teaches Conservation
      • Bug Repellent Daisies
      • Kids Against Crayon Waste- Crayon Recycling
      • UHS Community Garden
      • A Greener College Wood
      • Do Something Trees
      • No Crayon Left Behind
      • Prairie Trace Trees
      • Goodbye Plastics
      • Carmel Green Trees
      • CHS Recycled Arts Garden
      • Going Green at the CLC
    • 2012 Projects >
      • UHS Tree Hugging Trailblazers
      • Girl Scouts Bikeyard 100
      • Bat Boxes- Nature's Bug Zappers
      • CHS Green Shower Power
    • 2011 Projects >
      • Mission Recycle
      • Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
      • Recycling at CHS
      • A Greener Tomorrow is in the Bag
      • Fishing Line Recycling
    • 2010 Projects >
      • MOSAICS Family Garden
      • Coolers are Cooler with Cups
      • Ban the Bottle, Try the Tap
      • Butterfly Reintroduction Carey Grove Park
      • Butterfly Reintroduction Clay Middle School
      • River Trail Wildflower Reintroduction
      • Tree Scouts
    • 2009 Projects >
      • Scouts' Reusable Shopping Bags
      • St. Christopher's Garden
      • Earth Day Tree Seedling Giveaway
      • CHS Green Lights Club

Impact

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Empowering young people while educating our community about environmental responsibility is the focus of the Carmel Green Teen Micro-Grant Program. The direct environmental impact of the funded projects is both measurable and impressive. Our program allows every young person in our township an equal opportunity to make a difference in the world. Today’s youth are tomorrow’s world leaders; if we can help them realize and experience the benefits of community service and environmental stewardship now, the future will be a better place for everyone.

Together, from 2009-2018 our program’s 57 funded projects have:
  • Directly involved over 1200 young people, ages 5-19
  • Benefited every member of our community (over 80,000 people)
  • Provided Carmel residents over $120,000 in savings annually
  • Reduced carbon dioxide emissions by over 500 tons annually
  • Planted over 2200 trees and numerous butterfly bushes and wildflowers
  • Facilitated the ongoing recycling of tons of waste from school cafeterias monthly
  • Saved over a half-million plastic bags and thousands of plastic water bottles annually
  • Provided 105 CFL bulbs to people from 44 different neighborhoods, saving $2100 in electricity bills annually
  • Annually provided over 1000 tomatoes, 50 buckets of beans, and over 650 other vegetables, all locally- and organically-grown, to local needy families.
  • Involved projects within eight elementary schools, one special-needs school, three middle schools, five churches, and two high schools
  • Facilitated 10 Boy Scout Eagle projects and 3 Girl Scout award projects
  • Created sustainable, safe new animal habitats with plants and trees native to Indiana
  • Launched Indiana’s first mono-filament fishing line recycling program
  • Raised awareness of environmental issues within the Carmel community
  • Fostered a greater sense of community
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Download the Carmel Green Teen Impact Calculation Guide to see how these numbers were determined. This formatted guide allows users to calculate the environmental impact of their projects. It contains useful links to the US EPA and other websites used as resources for these calculations.

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