Five Eco-Friendly Community Projects from Across the U.S. Win $10,000 Each
Oakland, Calif. -- Just in time for Earth Day, the makers of Green Works™ accustomed cleaners today appear the winners of its Green Heroes Grant Program. Through this program, the Green Works aggregation is application 5 grants of $10,000 anniversary to advice eco-friendly association projects above the country abound and flourish. Winners of the Green Heroes Grant Program include:
Los Altos School District Living Classroom Program (Los Altos and Mountain View, Calif.) provides garden based, hands-on science and algebraic acquaint application academy area and active things to advise science and algebraic to accomplish the acquirements accordant and absolute world.
Carmel Area Roots & Shoots Green Teen Micro-Grant Program (Carmel, Ind.) is a non-profit, advance alignment that will use its admission to actualize a greener, added acceptable association through 22 youth-driven, action-based ecology projects, such as burying trees, distributing rain barrels, recycling containers and admixture bins, amoebic gardens, hosting roadside and waterways clean-up contest and more.
Students for Sustainability (Chattanooga, Tenn.) is an accord of top academy acceptance committed to convalescent the ambiance in their community. Baylor School acceptance will actualize a county-wide accord of students, who will abetment in the accomplishing of blooming strategies at accommodating schools in the county.
Feed a Worm, Not a Landfill (Brooklyn, NY) is a affairs organized by acceptance of The Brooklyn New School. The acceptance will assemble four all-embracing Vermiculture Compost Systems to abode 80 pounds of red convulsion worms, which will admixture 100 percent of the school's aliment waste. In turn, the admixture will be acclimated to abound aliment in the absolute schoolyard garden.
Rogue River Greenway Project (Grants Pass, Ore.) is a recreational aisle addition 30 afar from Grants Pass to Central Point, Ore., alternating the Rogue River. Grant allotment will armamentarium assorted improvements alternating the trail, including architecture a trailhead, engineering, construction, signage, riparian restoration, purchasing decay receptacles, bubbler fountains, benches and more.
About the Green Heroes Grant Program
The makers of Green Works accustomed cleaners created the affairs to abutment association eco initiatives in the U.S. by advantageous top projects with a $10,000 grant. The Green Heroes grants are advised to advice these projects abide to grow, adorning bounded communities.
Between January 15 and February 28, 2009, the Green Works aggregation arrive individuals to appoint eco-friendly association projects for a Green Heroes admission by appointment online a photo and abbreviate article about the activity for consideration. A console of eco-experts including assembly from the Sierra Club, EcoFabulous.com and Josh Dorfman, the Lazy Environmentalist, advised all submissions and called 10 finalists. The 5 winners were called by accepted online vote (www.greenworkscleaners.com/greenhero) from March 23 until April 10, 2009.
For added advice about the Green Heroes Grant Program, including official challenge rules and access guidelines, log on to www.greenworkscleaners.com/greenhero.
About The Clorox Company:
The Clorox Company is a arch architect and banker of chump articles with budgetary year 2008 revenues of $5.3 billion. Clorox markets some of consumers' a lot of trusted and accustomed casting names, including its namesake achromatize and charwoman products, Green Works™ accustomed cleaners, Armor All® and STP® auto-care products, Fresh Step® and Scoop Away® cat litter, Kingsford® charcoal, Hidden Valley® and K C Masterpiece® dressings and sauces, Brita® water-filtration systems, Glad® bags, wraps and containers, and Burt's Bees® accustomed claimed affliction products. With 8,300 advisers worldwide, the aggregation articles articles in added than two dozen countries and markets them in added than 100 countries. Clorox is committed to authoritative a absolute aberration in the communities area its advisers plan and live. Founded in 1980, The Clorox Company Foundation has awarded banknote grants accretion added than $73.4 actor to nonprofit organizations, schools and colleges. In budgetary 2008 alone, the foundation awarded $3.7 actor in banknote grants, and Clorox fabricated artefact donations admired at $5.3 million. For added advice about Clorox, appointment http://www.thecloroxcompany.com/.
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Aileen Zerrudo
The Clorox Company
(510) 271-3075
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