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Calling elementary school educators! Exciting Project Learning Garden Contests Announced! Thanks to Cox Farms, Cox Automotive, and Cox Enterprises, several new gardens will open in elementary schools nationwide. If you are in one of the five listed areas, apply today! The application deadline is November 15.

Middle school educators, did you know Team Planet offers multiple ways to get involved in the Green Heart STEM Challenge? Get ready for the January kickoff of the FIRE Challenge by joining a virtual Info Session and/or teacher training. Info Sessions are 30-minute long virtual meetings for educators. This session provides an overview of the Green Heart STEM Challenge, the element of the year, and our timeline. Teacher Trainings are 1-hour (in-person or virtual) sessions that walk educators through the online Challenge platform, its student activities, and standards-aligned content. Click on the link in bio to sign up for a date that works best for your schedule! Don't see a date or time that works? Email ghsc@captainplanetfdn.org and we can schedule a time that works for you.

Calling all metro-Atlanta middle school educators (6th-8th grade)! Did you know today is World Energy Day? The 2027 FIRE Challenge is tasking middle school youth to identify and solve energy-related issues in their communities. On Tuesday, November 3rd, Captain Planet Foundation will host our in-person Atlanta Teacher Training for the Green Heart STEM Challenge - FIRE Challenge 2027. Lunch will be provided! Incentives: 💚 If you are an educator within DeKalb County School District, this opportunity qualifies you for Professional Development credit. 💚 The first ten (10) educators - across all Atlanta districts - to sign up for the Teacher Training and submit student Challenge projects receive a $100 educator stipend. What to expect: 🔥 In-depth training on how to participate in the 2027 Green Heart STEM Challenge 🔥 Walk-through of curriculum-aligned content 🔥 Connect with fellow educators across the district 📍 Turner Building, Atlanta, GA ⏰ 8:30 am - 1 pm Follow our link in bio or scan the QR code to sign up! We hope to see you there!

A healthy harvest can be more than just a dream. Join us for a very special Project Learning Garden Info Session with Steve Hazzard from Organic Control. We will also celebrate dozens of educators' certifications with prizes, including 20 $100 Pollinator Cards donated by Kellogg's Garden Products. Sign up for this info session using the link in our bio. You won't want to miss this!

EDUCATORS IN ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA! LETTUCE LOOK AHEAD and help your school win a $7500 school garden grant of resources and support. APPLY TODAY!

Calling all metro-Miami middle school educators @mdcps_steam_ @miamischools (6th-8th grade)! This coming Monday, September 21st, COO of Captain Planet Foundation Latoya Henry will be leading our in-person Miami Teacher Training for the Green Heart STEM Challenge - FIRE Challenge 2027. Incentives: 💚 If you are an educator within Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS), this opportunity qualifies you for 3 Master Plan Points. 💚 The first ten (10) educators to sign up for the Teacher Training and submit student Challenge projects receive a $100 educator stipend What to expect: 🔥 In-depth training on how to participate in the 2027 Green Heart STEM Challenge 🔥 Walk-through of curriculum-aligned content 🔥 Connect with fellow educators across the district 📍 South Dade Senior High, Homestead, FL ⏰ 11:30 am - 3 pm Follow our link in bio or scan the qr code to sign up! We hope to see you there!

🚨ATTENTION EDUCATORS🚨 It's time to plant seeds for a greener community for your students. @Raleys, @Bashasmarkets, and Captain Planet Foundation are bringing the Project Learning Garden to schools and educators in Arizona and New Mexico. Winning schools will receive five garden beds, gardening materials, a mobile cooking cart kit (including a @vitamix blender), and access to lessons that can coincide with outdoor learning labs. Every garden can be a classroom! Apply today!

🚨ATTENTION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EDUCATORS🚨 Apply to win a PLG $7500 school garden grant funded by Ajinomoto Foods and Tops Markets. Apply at captainplanetfoundation.org/contest/topsmarkets now if you are in northern Pennsylvania, northern Vermont, or upstate New York and within 20 miles of a Tops Friendly Market!

The Green Heart STEM Challenge is back for the 2027 FIRE Challenge! Calling all 6th-8th-grade educators: Captain Planet Foundation is thrilled to announce that registration for the 2027 FIRE Challenge is NOW OPEN! The 2026 Green Heart STEM Challenge (GHSC) video above captures the incredible experiences of youth across the Atlanta, Houston, and Miami metros this past school year. These young changemakers developed original solutions to tackle difficult environmental problems in their communities. Let's run it back again for 2027! The 2027 FIRE Challenge focuses on Renewable Energy, Alternative & Electric Transportation, Low-Carbon Cooking Fuels, and Reduced Reliance on Fossil Fuels. NEW for 2027: We are welcoming students and educators across the San Francisco Bay Area! Do you know an educator or local organization in the SF Bay Area who is interested in STEM enrichment education? Contact us at ghsc@captainplanetfdn.org! Register now for the 2027 FIRE Challenge at the link in our bio. Registration ends December 18th. Interested, but not ready to register? Click the link in our bio to sign up for a 30-minute Info Session with Team Planet.

Attention Educators! Join us on Zoom TODAY for our monthly PLG Virtual Information Session. This is your chance to ask questions, provide feedback, hear about new updates, and to connect with fellow PLG garden educators! Register at the link in our bio on Instagram! Hope to see you there! All sessions are recorded.

On Friday, May 15th, Project Learning Garden was honored to boost the vibrant garden at Deerwood Academy! Together with our amazing partners at Cox Enterprises, we added five brand-new garden beds to their already thriving school garden. Many thanks to Garden Coordinator Ursula Kenwood and her daughter Kendall Rae Johnson (the youngest certified farmer in the nation!) along with the incredible students, educators, and volunteers who made it all happen. And the best part? A greenhouse is on the way, thanks to the Georgia Tech Atlanta chapter of Engineers Without Borders! We’re excited to see how Deerwood Academy’s garden will bloom and teach for years to come! 🌸

Team Planet was honored to attend the Life & Legacy of Ted Turner memorial celebration today at the Warner Bros. Discovery campus in Atlanta. The event was beautifully produced by our Board Member, Sydney Langdon, and her team; hosted by CNN’s Anderson Cooper; and featured remarks by David Zaslav (President & CEO, WBD), Dr John Malone (Chair Emeritus, WBD), Sir Mark Thompson (Chairman & CEO, CNN), Christiane Amanpour (Chief International Anchor, CNN), Wolf Blitzer (Anchor, CNN), Tom Johnson (Former President, CNN), Ben Mankiewiez (Host, Turner Classic Movies), and Ernie Johnson (Host, TNT Sports). They all shared deeply personal and often hilarious stories remembering a man who led a singularly impactful life on the media, philanthropy, sports, youth environmentalists, and large-scale land conservation & restoration. The most heartfelt stories came at the end when John R Seydel talked about living a life with Ted up close - in the quiet times that belong to family. John R is Ted’s grandson and a CPF Board Member - the eldest of Laura Turner Seydel, CPF’s Chair Emeritus. The favorite quote of the day was Ted’s “Either lead, follow or get out of the way,” appropriate to remember in these time of climate crisis and inaction from our leaders. The Power is Yours.

Today, we celebrate the incredible woman whose unwavering vision, passion, and commitment helped build the foundation of everything we do at Captain Planet Foundation. Thank you, Laura, for being a fierce champion for young people and the planet — your legacy continues to inspire and empower a new generation of Planeteers around the world through the Laura Turner Seydel Living Legacy Fund. Wishing you a day filled with love, light, and the same joy you’ve brought to so many.

Captain Planet Foundation is excited to announce REVERB as a Superhero for Earth awardee! Co-founders Lauren Sullivan and Adam Gardner will be accepting this award on behalf of REVERB at the Gala portion of our Concert for the Planet event on November 7th, 2026! REVERB has established itself as a leader in making the music touring industry more sustainable and has worked with artists such as Billie Eilish, Harry Styles, Dave Matthews Band, Maroon 5, and many more. In its 22-year history, REVERB has raised 26M for environmental causes, mobilized 8M+ fans in climate action, and neutralized 460,000 metric tons of CO2E! Our Concert for the Planet is rocking back to the 90s in a nod to the launch of Captain Planet and the Planeteers in 1990 - go to the link in bio to see our incredible Grammy-winning band!!!! Get your tickets today and celebrate 35 years of Captain Planet Foundation - the Power is Yours!

Look out…CPF has some new faces for the summer! 👀 Introducing our 2026 Summer Intern group ☀️: Carter Douglas-Brown - Carter is a rising senior at Emory University, majoring in Environmental Science & Anthropology. She will be working with Planeteer Alliance and programming. Carter said she is “inspired by Captain Planet Foundation’s mission to address the climate crisis through local, high-impact projects that empower communities and young people who may not otherwise have access to these opportunities”. Her favorite animal is a green sea turtle! 🐢 Chloe Seward - Chloe is also a rising senior at Emory University, majoring in Psychology. She will be working with the Green Heart STEM Challenge this summer. She is excited to be a part of CPF because she “loves the work CPF does with kids in cultivating their ability to implement sustainable habits from a young age, and encouraging them to carry out those practices for generations to come”. Her favorite animal is a giraffe! 🦒 Layla Joyner - Layla is a rising junior at Georgia State University, majoring in Business Management. She will be working with Project Learning Garden this summer and was drawn to work with Captain Planet Foundation because “they are a mission-driven organization that uses their highly structured operations and passion for environmental change to empower youth to be sustainability and social justice leaders”. Her favorite animal is a corgi! 🐶 Marlowe McIntyre - Marlowe is a rising junior at Skidmore College, majoring in Business & Political Science. She will be working with the Marketing & Development teams this summer and was drawn to Captain Planet “because of the way that they impact local communities (especially Atlanta) and the organization’s involvement with real schools and students alongside the growth they promote within the organization”. Her favorite animal is an elephant! 🐘 We are excited to see all of the amazing work our interns accomplish & to welcome them to Captain Planet Foundation! 🌎

Team Planet is pumped to see The Wallflowers play at Concert for the Planet on November 7th and just had to share our excitement! Make sure to grab your tickets at the link in our bio to come rock out with us! If you use code SAVE25 at checkout, you’ll save 25% on your ticket! Don’t miss out!

The Project Learning Garden team traveled to Detroit last week to help install a Delta Air Lines PLG Garden at University Prep Math and Science Elementary! We planted some kale, Brussels sprouts, and garlic just in time for the first frost in this northern city.

Happy World Mangrove Day 🌳 Today we are highlighting the unsung environmental hero: the Mangrove Tree! Did you know that in 2000, it was calculated that mangroves cover 137,800 square kilometers worldwide! #mangroves #worldmangroveday #cpf #captainplanet

🌎🎶 WHO’S HEADLINING CONCERT FOR THE PLANET? 🎶🌎 We’re celebrating Captain Planet Foundation’s 35th Anniversary with an unforgettable night of music, purpose, and planetary action… but there’s one thing we can’t tell you just yet 👀 Can you guess who’s taking the stage? 🎟️ Enter our Headliner Guess Giveaway in our bio for a chance to win! Not only is there a concert at 9 pm - you can also attend the Gala Awards dinner (starts at 6 pm), where we will honor REVERB.org and Peter Conlon of Live Nation with Superhero for Earth Awards. AND, we will present George McKerrow with the inaugural Ted Turner Legacy Award - in honor of the REAL Captain Planet. Join us on November 7th at the Coca-Cola Roxy in Atlanta, Georgia, for an unforgettable evening that raises money for young Planeteers here in Atlanta, across the U.S., and around the globe - who are working to create the world they want to live in. Tickets are on sale now in our bio! *Entry guidelines at https://concertfortheplanet.org/giveaway/

We are thrilled to welcome 3 visionary leaders to the Captain Planet Foundation Board of Directors! Susana Chavez is Executive Vice President at Park Place and has built an impressive legacy of business growth, leadership, and relationship-building. Her contributions have earned her numerous honors, including recognition from the GHCC Hall of Fame, Women of Achievement, and Trailblazer awards. As a dedicated community leader, she currently serves on several executive and advisory boards across the business and non-profit sectors, including the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Mexican Center of Atlanta and the Latin American Association. Eunjae Kim Peralta-Ramos is CEO of Grace-Jackson Investment LLC and the Principal for the Eunjae Kim & Arturo Peralta-Ramos Charitable Trust. Eunjae is a lifelong learner and accomplished leader; in addition to earning degrees from the University of Iowa and the University of Tennessee, she has continued her professional journey through advanced certifications and graduate studies in project management, engineering, and Lean Six Sigma at Stanford and Purdue. Marieke van de Rakt is Co-founder and partner of Emilia Capital and a passionate leader in marketing education and the digital world. Prior to forming Emilia Capital, Marieke served as the CEO of Joast SEO. Through her work in business, education, and community leadership, she helps turn sustainability, biodiversity, and anti-poverty goals into impactful local action. No matter the setting, Marieke is driven by a commitment to turn purpose into practice.

We are excited to team up with Jack Johnson as an All At Once Non-Profit Partner on his 2026 Summer Tour! Come see us at the Village Green in Alpharetta, GA, at Ameris Bank Amphitheater on August 21st to connect, learn, and take action with us! All At Once is Jack’s social action network connecting nonprofits with people who want to take action and give back to their community. All At Once promotes sustainable & equitable food systems, plastic-free initiatives, healthy watersheds, and more! Since the beginning, Jack has been a sustainability champion. He was one of the first musical artists to partner with Reverb, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a more sustainable music industry! We are excited to award Reverb a Superhero for Earth Award at our Concert for the Planet on November 7th and to meet the wonderful fanbase that makes up the Jack Johnson community on August 21st. Get involved at allatonce.org and learn more about the tour at ➡️ jackjohnsonmusic.com #AAOPlasticFree #AAOLocalFood #SURFILMUSIC

Meet Maria Victoria, a Planeteer in Fortaleza, Brazil 🌱🌍 Maria noticed a major problem in her city: large amounts of plastic waste were being improperly disposed of, which then reached the rivers and the ocean, threatening marine life and polluting coastal areas. 🐠🌊 Maria’s project, Mudando a Maté, is an environmental awareness campaign that reduces disposable cup use by distributing reusable cups, mobilizing youth, and promoting educational actions. Her project helps keep our oceans healthy and keeps plastic out of streets, drains, and coastal areas.☀️🏫 With the help of Planeteer Alliance, Maria is empowering her community to keep plastic out of their environment and help make the world a little greener.🌳💫 Planeteer Alliance Season of Solutions Campaigns are powered by @REVERB and the @BillieEilish Changemaker Grant🌐💚

Team Planet and volunteers from Dematic Warehouse Automation Systems helped students at Memphis Merit Academy install four new raised garden beds, including one new accessible, elevated bed, and plant seeds for a winter harvest. Thank you, @dematicglobal and @memphismerit, for making this invigorating garden installation possible! 🌷

Happy World Environment Day from Captain Planet Foundation! 🌎💚 This year, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched the first-ever Climate Limbo Dance Challenge to spotlight an important question: How low can we go with global greenhouse gas emissions? The good news is that meaningful action starts with all of us. From using renewable energy and reducing food waste to planting trees, protecting natural spaces, and supporting environmental education, every step helps create a healthier future for people and the planet. At Captain Planet Foundation, we believe young people have the power to drive change in their communities and beyond. Today, and every day, we’re inspired by the students, educators, volunteers, and partners working to build a more sustainable world. What’s one action you’re taking for the environment today? Comment below! #WorldEnvironmentDay2026 #NowForClimate #WorldEnvironmentDay #ThePowerIsYours

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