Some fun ideas for building and serving your local community.
FALLING FRUIT
Falling Fruit is a massive, collaborative map of the urban harvest. By uniting the efforts of foragers, freegans, and foresters everywhere, the map points to over a half million food sources around the world. Find a place to go foraging in your neck of the woods. >
LITTLE FREE LIBRARY
Little Free Library is a non-profit that promotes neighborhood book exchanges, usually in the form of a public bookcase. Start your on Little Free Library. >
LITTLE FREE PANTRY
The mini pantry movement is a grassroots, crowdsourced solution to immediate and local needs. Whether a need for food or a need to give, mini pantries help feed neighbors, nourishing neighborhoods. Start a mini pantry of your own to fight food insecurity in your community. >
GREEN GUERILLAS
Green Guerillas uses a unique mix of education, organizing and advocacy to help people cultivate community gardens, sustain grassroots groups, grow food, engage youth, and address issues critical to the future of food justice and urban agriculture. Learn more about guerilla gardening and how you can help beautify and nourish your community. >
THE ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION
The Arbor Day Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to planting trees. Together with more than one million members, they’ve planted over 350 million trees in neighborhoods, communities, cities, and forests throughout the world. Become a member of the Arbour Day Foundation and get 10 free trees specially selected to plant in your neighborhood. >
PLOG FOR THE PLANET
Plogging — a portmanteau of "jogging" and "picking" (as in, picking up litter) — is the newest Scandinavian trend sweeping the world, though we're pretty sure we've been doing it since before it had a name . . . Anyhoo, this eco-friendly activity is the perfect way to get outdoors and help clean up your community! Start your own plogging group or join Keep America Beautiful’s Trash Dash, the nation’s leading plogging event. >
