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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

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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.  

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