Project Earth Care was created at Sealth High School to form an intergenerational partnership between K-12 schools, local government and neighborhoods, for the purpose of identifying, and actively working on, environmental projects that will benefit the entire community, while providing a hands on learning opportunity for students at all age levels. Featuring a unique partnership with Gatewood Elementary and Denny Middle schools, the project has fostered mentoring opportunities, shared curricula and staff collaboration to create a series of remarkable educational outcomes.

Project Earth Care offers a unique vertical alignment opportunity for grade, middle and high schools, with students at all levels directly involved in the project. In the process, intergenerational learning groups are formed that foster both student and adult mentoring opportunities and create cooperative learning environments.

Beginning with the Pelly Place Ravine pilot project in West Seattle, this unique template can be replicated in other parts of Seattle, throughout the United States and internationally, as we strive to get youth actively involved in the growing number of environmental issues facing our world.

Specifically Project Earth Care:

1. Provides a relevant, multi level, educational project for students of all ages.
2. Provides a unique vehicle for both the schools and community to explore and discuss environmental issues in their neighborhood and then work collectively on a positive outcome.
3. Provides unique, hands on, teaching opportunities for addressing the achievement gap.
4. Allows High School students to work with, and mentor, students in Elementary and Middle schools on important environmental projects.

Partnerships

Green Seattle Partnership
The Green Seattle Partnership is a unique public/private partnership between the City of Seattle and the Cascade Land Conservancy to restore all of the forested parklands of Seattle. It is a vision of a city with diverse, invasive-free, sustainable forests. It’s goal is
to restore 2,500 acres of forested parkland in the City of Seattle by the year 2025 and to
increase volunteer participation to approximately 100,000 hours a year by 2010.

Climate Action Now
The City of Seattle's Climate Protection Initiative was born in February 2005 when Mayor Nickels pledged that Seattle—the entire community not just City government—would meet or beat the United States' target of the Kyoto Treaty: reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

Seattle Climate Action Now is an exciting effort to give everyone in Seattle the tools needed to start making a real difference at home, at work, and on the road. It will bring you together with people across the street and across town to take action to protect the climate for all of us and for future generations.

Projects

Pelly Place Ravine