Global Habitat Project

CONTACT:

129 South Street, 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02111
617-778-2367
www.greenscreen.org

Franklin Reece, Executive Director

DESCRIPTION:

Environmental education has not reached many children in urban schools. GHP, founded in 1992, does so successfully — with environmental education by kids, for kids.

GHP recruits 45 students from diverse urban high schools in eastern Massachusetts, to work together throughout the school year writing and publishing Greentimes, — a quarterly environmental newsletter used by 35,000 students in elementary and middle-school classrooms from Boston to Lowell and beyond. Getting the paper out has special skill-building benefits for the 45 — all Greentimes' writers have gone on to college; reading what they have produced is engaging to the younger kids and broadens their intellectual horizons — GHP has received overwhelmingly positive feedback from over 500 public school teachers and science administrators who use it, Broadening horizons is the key. The global environment is one of the broadest, most comprehensive subjects addressed in school education today. It opens minds to many subjects by providing a useful context. Here is where a particular investment in education can definitely be relied upon to do good work.

(2001: INTERNATIONAL)