Announcing the Earth Day Staunton 2024 Poetry Contest Winners:
Adult Category:
1st Place – From Concrete by Dylan Thomas Mabe
2nd Place – Gurahivi by Brian Miller
3rd Place – Responsible Resident by Velma Kathryn Harner
Honorable Mention – Weeping Earth by Sheila Thadani
Middle/High School:
1st Place – Silent Beauty by
Amiya R. White
2nd Place – I Watched a Guy Stroll by Sarah Crittenden
3rd Place – Home by Kennedy Bryant
Honorable Mention – The Green Room by Isaac Wisler
Elementary:
1st Place – Saving Our Planet
by William J. Reever
2nd Place – Pollution
by Olivia Helvill
3rd Place – Untitled by Abigail Koska
Honorable Mention – Climate Change by Ananya Ram
Poetry for the Planet event: Saturday, September 21, 11:30 AM
Come celebrate the fall equinox with music and readings by Earth Day Staunton Poetry Contest poets. Molly Murphy and Bill Howard of the Judy Chops will provide musical interludes. Be inspired to help heal the planet as we move from summer to fall. At Sunspots Pavilion, 201 S. Lewis St., Staunton, across from Sunspots Studios.
Staunton Tree Stewards
Join our latest project! Geo-locate trees. Make a plan for their care. Keep our air cleaner & reduce climate change gases.
NEW
Staunton Legacy Tree Project
We did it! We planted 2,746 trees~
One for every Staunton City School Child.
See Where We Planted All Those Trees!
Here's a map of the trees planted in the Staunton Legacy Tree Project!
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Click and zoom around to see species, numbers and donors in and around Staunton
Flippy, our educational whale, migrates to schools & events teaching about plastic pollution.
Mission: Shenandoah Green is a non-partisan, grass-roots organization, working with local and scientific stakeholders to create an environmentally sustainable community through education, action, and advocacy.
Vision: The Shenandoah Valley is a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, serving as an environmental model for other communities.