Cee-Lo Green Launches The GreenHouse Foundation in Atlanta
Goodie MOb front man and international pop star Cee-Lo Green has reached back to his roots in Atlanta to launch “The Greenhouse Foundation” with his sister Shedonna Alexander.
The foundation will help facilitate green education across Atlanta school districts by implementing fun and exciting hands-on projects for underserved students. Community gardens, clean-up rallies, and recycling competitions will inspire and empower underprivileged kids to care about and take care of their community and the environment.
The GreenHouse Foundation‘s first initiative, the Green Garden Education Program, will offer schools a chance to partner with the foundation in building schoolyard gardens for kids to tend themselves. Students will not only learn environmental responsibility and sustainable practices, but also basic science and math in a fun outdoor setting.
The GreenHouse foundation aims to start its do-gooding with local schools and then spread into the community. Student gardens will become mini farmers markets that feed and educate the public with fresh produce. Another project called “The School Waste Diversion” Initiative will encourage recycling with school-wide contests that will grow into larger community events like “Clean Atlanta Green Day”, where entire neighborhoods participate in beautifying the city. Cee-Lo and Shedonna will also implement scholarships and green job training programs for high school students in future planning. (Atlanta BlackStar)
Cee-Lo continues to think outside of the box with the launching of The GreenHouse Foundation and showing true love for his hometown of Atlanta. True human connection and awareness of this planet have been blurred in this “world” of instagrams, FB friends, texts and SIMS. I applaud the foundation for reconnecting the youth with a more tangible form of life away from their laptops, smartphones, and iPads. The planet was here before there ever was “tweet” and The GreenHouse Foundation can help to ensure that it can continue to sustain us in the future.
This is what Harry Belafonte is talking about. Jay Z and Beyonce are not hands on with the youth in the New York City black community, and if they are its a well kept secret. Their platform is so powerful that the smallest initiative with the youth would be epic in proportion.
AMAZINGGRACE
August 15, 2012 at 8:48 pm
This will not only educate our children and help them to eat healthy, it will also teach them to be self-sufficient and learn a trade as well! Good for him!
Kirsten
August 15, 2012 at 10:02 pm