Turning Green

Turning Green is a global student-led movement devoted to cultivating a healthy, just and thriving planet through education and advocacy around environmentally sustainable and socially responsible choices. We inform, inspire, and mobilize a global network of students to become visionary catalysts for sustainable change in their lives, school campuses, and local communities. Key programs Project Green Challenge: An annual month-long competition that engages thousands of students across the globe through simple, relevant, high-impact sustainability-themed challenges, covering topics from personal health to food, climate justice, fair trade, waste, energy and more. The challenge culminates with a 3-day PGC Finals for ~16 outstanding students who gain invaluable knowledge, demonstrate capacity and go on to lead climate action projects. Internship Program: Year-round and summer-institute experiential learning opportunities that provide students with the knowledge, skills, confidence, training and mentorship to become powerful proactive citizens, activists and leaders on school campuses, in career paths and as members of communities worldwide. Conscious Kitchen: CK addresses food equity, education, and access by shifting the paradigm around school food service, while cultivating a local, ecological food system, and building nutrition literacy into school meals. Through a collaborative, replicable approach, CK partners with schools and school districts to break the cycle of of packaged, overly processed food, transitioning to chef-prepared, scratch-cooked meals created in on-site school zero-waste kitchens, based on five foundational attributes: fresh, local, organic, seasonal and nutritious.