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Earth Care's mission is to educate and empower young people in creating healthy, just and sustainable communities.
A 501 (c) 3 youth and community development organization.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Youth Food Cadre AmeriCorps Program begins!
Join us for a Day of Service on Saturday September 4th
On Wednesday September 1st, 11 AmeriCorps volunteers will gather at Earth Care for their 4-day orientation and the launch of the Youth Food Cadre program. The orienation includes service projects at Monte del Sol Charter School, St. John's soup kitchen, The Food Depot, and the Santa Fe Community Farm.
Join us Saturday, September 4th from 11am-3pm and meet the Cadre members at the Santa Fe Community Farm located at the San Isidro river crossing for a day of service in remembrence of 9/11. Bring your lunch and a bag to take home fresh produce from the Farm.
CLICK HERE to read more about this program.
Earth Care was recently granted an additional $40,000 for a total of $170,000 to from the Corporation for National and Community Service's AmeriCorps Program to launch our Youth Food Cadre Program. The program is a partnership with Cooking with Kids, the Santa Fe Alliance, Santa Fe Farmer's Market Institute, SF Food Policy Council, SF Public Schools, and the City and County of SF to engage young people 5-25 in building a local sustainable food system, address childhood obesity and diabetes, and improve access to healthy, local food for those most in need. Earth Care is seeking matching funds of $70,000. Support these goals by donating now in the left column.
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Youth Allies Leadership Institute
Youth Allies trainings beginning with the kick-off camp September 24 & 25th for youth ages 13-19.
Click Here for more information or to apply.
Sustainable Santa Fe Guide 2011 Issue
Article submissions for the 2011 Guide issue are now closed. Watch out for the release of the new issue in early November 2010!
On Bread for the World Blog
Click Here to view a short article about the Youth Food Cadre Program
On Santa Fe Radio Cafe
Listen to the Thursday June 17, 2010 interview with Executive Director Christina Selby talking about the new Youth Food Cadre Program
Click Here to Listen
Check us out on the cover of the 2010 Santa Fe Reporter's Annual Manual!
Earth Care launches the Mobile Toolshed
Click Here to read the article about the Mobile Toolshed in the Santa Fe Reporter
The toolshed on wheels is now available to youth, community, and school gardens across Santa Fe, allowing everyone to share gardening tools, equipment, resources, expertise, and even volunteers!
Click Here to find out more about the Mobile Toolshed and related Urban Food-Shed projects, how to get involved, and how to donate your tools!
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Our Programs
Youth Allies for Sustainability is a multi-level civic engagement, leadership, and community organizing program providing opportunities for young people to discover their voices, act on their convictions for a more just and sustainable world, and realize their full potential as individuals, community members, and stewards of the earth. The Youth Allies Leadership Institute is a partnership with Santa Fe Mountain Center and many other community-based organizations in northern New Mexico. To learn more about the Youth Allies Leadership Institute, Youth Allies Organizing Program, the Youth Allies Network, and Youth Voices for Change click here.
Earth Care's also coordinates the City's Youth Advisory
Board to the Sustainable Santa Fe Commission.
Sustainable Schools Program is a model for youth leadership, civic engagement, and sustainability education resulting in school improvement. This program helps schools to develop youth-led, integrated, multidisciplinary, real world curriculum and projects that involve students and teachers in research, learning and action for sustainability. The program supports schools in using sustainability as an integrating context for curriculum, innovative teaching practices, community partnerships, and student engagement. Specifically we support student-driven initiatives to green school campuses, change school food, and bring relevancy to curriculum. Includes Summer Teacher Institutes, Service-Learning Project Coaching and Support, a District-wide Sustainability Education Task Force & related Eco-Schools Student Coalition, Curriculum & Resource Development, and sustainability in School Food.
Sustainable Santa Fe: A Resource Guide is a free magazine published annually by Earth Care. In November we print 36,000 copies for distribution all over Santa Fe and beyond. Articles, art, and photos highlight the incredible work of individuals, organizations, businesses, and others in Santa Fe to create a healthy, just, and sustainable community.
Sustainable Santa Fe is available at Real Food Nation, Koffee Klatch at the Hospital, all three Los Alamos National Bank locations, SF Community College, Genoveva Chavez Community Center, New York Deli, Lucci's Pizza, SF Chamber of Commerce, Plaze Cafe (both), India House, Ace Hardware, Plants of the Southwest, Second Street Brewery, Tree House Cafe, Broken Spoke bike shop, Amanda's Flowers, Dahl Plumbing, Whole Foods & Wild Oats, Montoya Gov't Building, Reynolds Gov't Building, the Roundhouse, NM State Library, Main Library, La Montanita Co-op, Solana Center Laundromat, outside Starbucks on San Francisco St., 1st National Bank on the plaza, Santa Fe Hemp, Santa Fe Farmers Market, Critters and Me, The Feed Bin, The Firebird, Bumblebees Baja Grill, or at Earth Care's office on Siler Road!
Andy Otterstrom of Creative Couriers, LLC delivers the magazine to these locations via bicycle.
Now available online: 2009 Sustainable Santa Fe and 2010 Sustainable Santa Fe !
Advertisers, writers, and fans please visit http://sustainablesantafeguide.com/ for more.
Got an idea or feedback for Sustainable Santa Fe? Contact Angela Harris at
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![]() ![]() Youth Food Cadre:
Earth Care and partners will launch the Youth Food Cadre this September with the support of AmeriCorps and local Foundations. The YFCP will prepare the next generation of food entrepreneurs,
farmers, and food advocates; address root causes of childhood obesity and diabetes; increase urban food production; decrease our food systems' contribution to climate change; and increase access to local, healthy food for those most in need. |
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