Green Team Academy

Each year Americans grow a crop they mow but do not eat. Join Brigitte Mars & BethyLoveLight, Awake & Aware, to discover how to "Get Off Your Grass and Create an Edible Lawn".

Have you ever wondered how to get people to understand the problems with lawns and what to do instead? Herbalist, Brigitte Mars, and eco-conscious hip hop artist, BethyLoveLight, have been working on this very thing. Join us to learn about their videos, songs, books, and courses that demonstrate the absurdity of massive lawns and the healing power of dandelions and other herbs.

Articles:
Brigitte Mars, Huffington Post, Get Off Your Grass and Create an Edible Lawn
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/get-off-your-grass-and-cr_b_533359

Events:

• May 14: Light It Up Conscious Talk
• May 30: Herb Walk
• June 6: Bee In
• September: Ten Week Herbal Healing Course

Books:

• Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine, Brigitte Mars

Websites:

• Brigitte Mars: https://brigittemars.com/
• BethyLoveLight: https://bethylovelight.com/

Resources:

• People & Pollinators Action Network
• Bee City USA
• Nontoxic Communities

Upcoming Green Team Academy Event:
2021 International Climate Action Challenge
https://www.climateactionchallenge.net/challenge

Tune in for an interview with Doug Good Feature to hear about his new book, Think Indigenous: Native American Spirituality for a Modern World.

The book is a guide to integrating indigenous thinking into modern life for a more interconnected and spiritual relationship with our fellow beings, Mother Earth, and the natural ways of the universe.

This book's intention is not to teach you to "be Native American," but instead to use the indigenous culture of the Lakota to help you connect with your own indigenous roots and help you remember your ancestral knowing that all beings are divinely connected.

Get the book through Hay House.

About Doug
Doug Good Feather is a full-blooded Native American Lakota, born and raised in the traditional indigenous ways of his elders on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He is a direct descendant of Grandpa Chief Sitting Bull. He is the executive director and spiritual leader of the Lakota Way in Colorado and the co-founder of Spirit Horse Nation. You can visit Spirit Horse Nation online at spirithorsenation.org.

Podcast
Catch us live on the Green Team Academy Facebook page, YouTube channel, or on Twitter. Or watch the recording on the Green Team Academy website or wherever you get your podcasts
https://www.greenteamacademy.com/podcast

Upcoming Green Team Academy events:

2021 International Climate Action Challenge
Kicks off August 18, 2021
Join us and go from passion to action in 90 days! Get live trainings, weekly check-ins, book, workbook, portal and more. Find out more in our free Quick Start Training at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net

Show notes

https://greenteamacademy.com/120-think-indigenous-doug-good-feather/

Discover what's in store for you during the 3rd Annual Earth Week Summit!

Find out how to:

• Join our Earth Month Pop-Up Group to meet our partners and connect and collaborate with eco-enthusiasts from around the world
• Get in on Live Workshops that show how to go from passion to action in 90 days
• Hear our interviews with featured guests on Earth Day
• Participate in our Happy Hours
• Help us meet our 1,000-tree challenge goal with Mabinju Power House Youth Group in Kenya
• Get in on virtual events hosted by our partners around the world
• Find online and in-person events in the Metro Denver area

Upcoming Green Team Academy events:

2021 Earth Week Summit
April 17-24, 2021
Live workshops, happy hours, and a month-long pop-up group. Help us meet our goal of funding 1,000 trees with our partners in Kenya. Promote your organization and events by becoming a promoting partner. Free registration
https://www.earthweeksummit.com

2021 International Climate Action Challenge
Kicks off August 18, 2021
Join us and go from passion to action in 90 days! Get live trainings, weekly check-ins, book, workbook, portal and more. Find out more in our free Quick Start Training at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net

Looking for a way to get people together in-person, while social distancing? Organize a cleanup!

In this episode, we'll hear from Jake Rubenstein of EARTHDAY.ORG about the Great Global Cleanup and from Dann Diez, SEED4COM. Find out how to do plogging, individual cleanups, or group cleanups and how to get your cleanup on the map! https://cleanup.earthday.org/ 

How can you make a cleanup more impactful than just a one-day event? Join us to find out strategies for planning a training, cleanup, and forum to mobilize your community, using a cleanup as the catalyst. https://www.seed4com.org/

Catch us live on the Green Team Academy Facebook page, YouTube channel, or on Twitter. Or watch the recording on the Green Team Academy website or wherever you get your podcasts
https://www.greenteamacademy.com/podcast

Upcoming Green Team Academy events:

2021 Earth Week Summit
April 17-24, 2021
Live workshops, happy hours, and a month-long pop-up group. Help us meet our goal of funding 1,000 trees with our partners in Kenya. Promote your organization and events by becoming a promoting partner. Free registration
https://www.earthweeksummit.com

2021 International Climate Action Challenge
Kicks off August 18, 2021
Join us and go from passion to action in 90 days! Get live trainings, weekly check-ins, book, workbook, portal and more. Find out more in our free Quick Start Training at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net

Looking for some fun and meaningful ways to celebrate Earth Day in the Metro Denver area? We've got you covered! Tune in for my chat with Kastle Waserman, journalist with Westword in Denver. 

We'll be sharing ideas for individuals, groups, and families, including online and in-person options. See the complete list of Denver events on the Earth Week Summit schedule page. https://www.EarthWeekSummit.com/schedule

Kastle Waserman is a freelance journalist for Westword in Denver, Colorado. She’s been a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, Yahoo!, Fodor’s Travel Books, Women’s Wear Daily and more, covering music, culture, fashion and environmental events and business.

Upcoming Green Team Academy events:

2021 Earth Week Summit
April 17-24, 2021
Live workshops, happy hours, and a month-long pop-up group. Help us meet our goal of funding 1,000 trees with our partners in Kenya. Promote your organization and events by becoming a promoting partner. Free registration
https://www.earthweeksummit.com

2021 International Climate Action Challenge
Kicks off August 18, 2021
Join us and go from passion to action in 90 days! Get live trainings, weekly check-ins, book, workbook, portal and more. Find out more in our free Quick Start Training at https://www.climateactionchallenge.net

Tune in for a conversation with Chris Woodburn, School Gardens Specialist with Denver Public Schools. Find out about Garden of Youth, an innovative garden program to help plant seeds of opportunities for students with obstacles to employment. We'll also hear about volunteer opportunities in the DPS gardens and the April 2021 DPS Sustainability & Garden Forum.

GARDEN OF YOUTH INTERNSHIP
Garden of Youth provides students with special needs soft job skills through 10-week paid summer internships. Eight sites host interns across Denver where students plant, maintain and harvest produce to share at local farmers markets while practicing merchandising, sale skills, and money math. Each week interns explore one garden or sustainability topic while honing their job skills working in small groups with a job coach. Garden of Youth is in its tenth year and still growing strong.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Looking for an outdoor volunteer opportunity with kids and gardens in the Denver area? Individuals and groups can volunteer with DPS school gardens on a one-time or ongoing basis. To be matched with schools who have requested support, contact Chris Woodburn at [email protected].

More Info
- DPS Gardens https://sustainability.dpsk12.org/gardens/
- DPS Garden of Youth Internship https://sustainability.dpsk12.org/garden-of-youth/
- Youth Sustainability Board https://www.youthsustainabilityboard.org/
- Denver Urban Gardens https://dug.org/


DPS Sustainability & Gardens Forum
https://sustainability.dpsk12.org/sustainability-garden-forum-summit/

Upcoming Events from Green Team Academy

Schools use a lot of paper. That's what got two high-school seniors, Sethu Odayappan and Lizzy Elsner, thinking. 

They decided to take action to help replace the paper that they and their fellow classmates had used during their senior year at Mansfield, Massachusetts. That was the start of Tree-Plenish, with its first tree-planting event. The team has grown from 2 to 25 and turned a small-town project into a national one.

The Tree-Plenish team is working with 90 schools in the 2020-2021 academic year and is on track to plant over 14,000 trees across the country. The team is working with schools across 20 states from California to New Hampshire.

Tree-Plenish works with high school students to host tree-planting events in their communities that will offset their school’s paper usage during the last academic year. Students, guided by Tree-Plenish mentors, follow a 3-step process.

1) Planning - During this phase of the process, students figure out how much paper their school used during the last academic year. They then take that number and convert it into the number of trees they will need to plant. We estimate planting one tree will offset 10,000 sheets of paper.

2) Marketing - During the next phase, students reach out to the residents of their community to ask them to request a tree to be planted in their yard or to volunteer to help plant trees on the day of the actual event, or both!

3) Hosting - The final phase is for students to host their actual event. On this day, teams of volunteers plant trees in the yards of residents of their town.

Tree-Plenish has developed guidelines for planting during the coronavirus pandemic to keep everyone safe. 

Visit the Tree-Plenish website to get involved:

• Find an event and volunteer
• Donate
• Host your own event

https://www.tree-plenish.org/

Upcoming Green Team Academy Events:

• Apr 17-24: Earth Week Summit
• Aug 18: 2021 Intl Climate Action Challenge
• https://www.greenteamacademy.com

2021 Challenge Registration now open!

Hey, do you want to start your own initiative? Register for the 2021 International Climate Action Challenge to launch your eco-initiative in 90 days! Get in on the free Quick Start Training to learn more!

Let's celebrate #EarthDay together! Get in on the FREE Earth Week Summit and be part of live workshops, happy hours, and a 1,000 tree challenge to #RestoreOurEarth! Register early to join the Earth Month pop-up group to connect with eco-buddies from around the world! Sign up for the April 17-24, 2021 summit here:  https://www.EarthWeekSummit.com