The 2012 Green in Action Application Deadline Has Been Extended!! 

Submit your application to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by May 5 to win!  Since Earth Day fell on a Sunday this year, we want to give all schools, classrooms and groups a chance to share their Earth Month activities with GEF. 

Click on the menu to the left to view the 2009 - 2011 winning projects.

Green In Action Awards are granted to schools, classes, or groups of green keepers. Send in your photos, videos, and artwork describing your environmental project, weigh-in, activity, community service project, or green team program! Winning schools will have their videos, photographs and scanned artwork uploaded to the National Green Week site and green packs for the winning classroom.

Applications are due by Earth Day, April 22. Please submit with a project description along the following information in your email to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Please Include:

Your name
Your email address
Your telephone number
Name of school, class, or group
Address, city and state
Description of your environmental project (under 500 words)
One of the following:

• One video up to 10 minutes long 
• Up to ten photos 
• Scanned artwork 
• Green projects/programs descriptions that took place or were launched in the current school year preferably during National Green Week 
• Essays, poems, or other creative literary efforts (up to five examples formatted in word). 

Submitted data will be reviewed and assessed relative to its creativity, educational value, and potential for sustainability and replication. Winners wi ll be announced by May 15, 2012.

Note: For image submissions, please do not paste your photo's inside of a word document or PDF file. Rather, please send original files to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as image attachments.