The importance of urban environmental exploration for students and teachers

Building just and healthy communities requires trust in young people

A curriculum of experiences in the world

Urban school gardens reach out to their communities and complement "green school" philosophy.

A model for maintaining gardening programs year round through school-community partnerships.

Students in an inner-city-school program learned that visual environments are a matter of choice: they can reflect and perpetuate cycles of poverty, or become opportunities to restore hope and self-esteem.

An example of how overnight camping trips early in the school year can help urban adolescents connect with the natural world and each other as a learning community.