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Baltimore Leave No Child Inside

Baltimore Metro area
800 Wyman Park Drive
Baltimore, Maryland 21211

To celebrate April Awareness Month, Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore City's TreeBaltimore Initiative, Baltimore City Department of Recreation & Parks, Parks & People Foundation, Baltimore Watershed Associations, Project H.E.A.R. (Horticultural Environmental Awareness Raising),and many other grassroots organizations and corporate partners joined together to sponsor events throughout April, particularly during the week including Earth Day (4/22). Over 30 students from at least 20 schools and over 300 community volunteers convened at schools, city parks and community gardens to plant trees, gardens, do trail maintenance, art/ecology projects and hold workshops to celebrate the Earth!

The following is a list of partners and schools:

Athletes for Hope
Baltimore City Community College
Baltimore City Public Schools Grounds Department
Baltimore City Public Schools Office of Community Partnerships
Baltimore City Office of Sustainability
Baltimore GreenWorks
B-more Honey
Baltimore Ravens
Baltimore Watershed Associations
Brooklyn-Curtis Bay Coalition
Biohabitats
Changz After-School Program
Child First
CivicWorks/ Real Food Farm
Christ United Church of Christ
Community of Curtis Bay Association
Constellation Energy
Enterprise Rent A Car
GroSolar
Keytech
Irvine Nature Center
Lt. Governor, Anthony G. Brown
Mamma Cucina-Caterers
Mount Saint Joseph- Emerald City Project
M&T Bank
Participation Park
Patterson Park Audubon Center
Port Discovery
PNC Bank
Project H.E.A.R.
Safe Healing Foundation
Seven Seas Energy Stevenson College
Towson University TreeBaltimore and B.C. Recreation and Parks
The Truitt Family
University of Maryland Extension
Waste Neutral Group


Participating Schools:
Baltimore Freedom Academy
Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School
Barclay Elementary
Calvert Hall College
Curtis Bay EMS
Dickey Hill Elementary School
Francis Scott Key EMS
Franklin Square EMS
Gilmor ES
Hamilton EMS
Hampstead Hill Academy
Harlem Park EMS
Mergenthaler Vocational High
Moravia Elementary
Walter P. Carter Elementary
Western High School
William Paca Elementary ES
Windsor Hills EMS

Media Partners:
Afro-American Newspaper
Channel 77 Cable
Channel 25 Cable
Radio One, Inc.

Contact Information For This Listing

(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Environmental Education Manager, Parks & People Foundation

800 Wyman Park Drive
Baltimore, Maryland 21211

http://www.parksandpeople.org/

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"If you go with long-term significance, my pick for the top story of not only 2009 but also of the 21st Century is the pandemic of Nature Deficit Disorder, a term so aptly coined by Richard Louv in his best-selling outdoor book, Last Child in the Woods...."
— Bill Schneider, NewWest.Net
“Concerns about long-term consequences—affecting emotional well-being, physical health, learning abilities, environmental consciousness—have spawned a national movement to ‘leave no child inside.’ In recent months, it has been the focus of Capitol Hill hearings, state legislative action, grassroots projects, a U.S. Forest Service initiative to get more children into the woods and a national effort to promote a ‘green hour’ in each day.”
— Washington Post, June 2007
“The movement to reconnect children to the natural world has arisen quickly, spontaneously, and across the usual social, political, and economic dividing lines.”
Orion magazine, March/April 2007

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