This week Frannie is going to share a
fantastic program with you! Practice
your leadership skills and take initiative. Get a green space in your
community involved with The Groundwater Foundation’s Groundwater Guardian Green Site program.
A few examples of green spaces that are
already designated Green Sites include: golf courses, school campuses, zoos,
country clubs, nature centers, and parks.
Challenge yourself and your troop to think outside the box, does your
community have a unique green space that could be a Green Site?
The Groundwater Guardian Green Site
program publicly recognizes green spaces for their groundwater stewardship and
provides an opportunity for site managers to educate themselves, site staff,
and visitors about groundwater. The
program also documents the environmental benefit of sites’ groundwater-friendly
practices, showing the collective positive environmental impact. Find out more about the benefits of the
program here.
Here’s how you can get a green space
involved in the Groundwater Guardian Green Site program:
1.
Identify a green space in your community you would like to see become a
Green Site.
2.
Research why it is important and ways to protect and conserve
groundwater, The Groundwater Foundation’s website is a great place to
start!
3.
Put together the information you gathered and share it with the site
manager of the green space you identified.
Get as creative as you want! You
can create a poster, present a PowerPoint, write a song or a play, or think of
another way to share what you have learned.
4.
Ask the site manager if your troop can help fill out the application and learn more about the management practices and how they affect groundwater.
5.
Ask the site manager to notify your troop after the application has been
reviewed. If the site is not designated,
The Groundwater Foundation will work with the site to improve their practices
and they can resubmit their application.
If the site is designated, you can
celebrate with the Groundwater Guardian Green Site you helped designate! Be sure to share your success with local
media outlets and The Groundwater Foundation
here.
If you
need assistance throughout this process, e-mail guardian@groundwater.org.
