Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: November 30, 2018
Categories: Kids & Nature
Talk about the next generation of environmental stewards! The kids of Fletcher Place Neighborhood have formed their own association and are already knocking projects out of the park. My fellow Keep Indianapolis Beautiful colleague Ned and I were honored to be invited to their most recent monthly meeting. We asked them why they formed this […]
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Categories: Kids & Nature
Being hired in April as the new Keep Indianapolis Beautiful KIB Clubs Coordinator, I was eager to start working with our five partner schools before the students left for summer vacation. After some standard onboarding (administrative forms, a welcome lunch, facility tours, etc) and some not-so-standard procedures (fleet training aka driving a F-350 dump truck!!), […]
Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: November 2, 2018
Categories: Kids & Nature
My interview with Any’e Carson. This past weekend I was lucky enough to sit down and talk with a past Youth Tree Team member. Any’e is a junior at the University of Indianapolis, majoring in community health education. She graduated from Tech High School in 2012. Any’e is truly one of the many successful young […]
Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: November 1, 2018
Categories: Kids & Nature
Amy Shackelford is one of the 2016 KIB Youth Tree Team leaders. TheYouth Tree Team (YTT) works to preserve and maintain the trees KIB plants through our Community Forestry program. YTT seeks to promote professionalism, respect, personal and environmental responsibility, and teamwork in today’s high school students. I consider myself a smart and safe driver. […]
Posted by: Jeremy Kranowitz
Posted: October 31, 2018
Categories: Kids & Nature
Did you know the average American child spends 7.5 hours per day in front of a screen? That’s over 2,737 hours (yikes!) a year that kids spend indoors with their eyes are glued to televisions, computers, tablets and smart phones. Keep Indianapolis Beautiful hopes to counter this growing epidemic through our GreenKids Program—a multi-year partnership […]
