Groundwork Lawrence Youth Programs - see photos!

The Groundwork Lawrence Green Team is a year-round program that offers part-time, paid positions for 10 Lawrence high school students each year to help learn about and lead local environmental and healthy community initiatives, conduct research, raise awareness, challenge their peers to do community service, and participate in hands-on improvement projects throughout the City of Lawrence. The program is intended to promote the protection and restoration of Lawrence’s critical ecological systems, natural resources, and public health by engaging teens in advocacy and service-learning efforts focused on the community's parks, gardens, waterways, and vacant open spaces. The Green Team program has dual goals - to prepare Lawrence’s youth for a lifetime of environmental and healthy community leadership, and to invest in our community’s future and capacity to improve its physical environment.

Read all about Green Team in their season newsletters!

• Summer 2009
• Fall 2008-Spring 2009
• Summer 2008
• January - June 2008
• October - December 2007
• January - September 2007

Learn More:

• Teen Sensations-from AMC Outdoors
• Green Team helps grow fresh veggies for Lawrence - Eagle Tribune
• GT attends Tufts UEP's 35 Anniv. Event & speaks with Van Jones, Green for All
• The Eagle Tribune covers GT's Environmental Expo
• Green Team completes Ecological Rapid Assessments of the Spicket River in 2004 (5mb)
• 2009 GWUSA Youth Summit and 2009 Glow Youth Art (pdf)
• View 2009-2010 photos