Welcome to Project Earth®
Project Earth is a global environmental education network designed to connect schools, students and teachers around the world to help solve environmental problems. Founded by Ecology and Environment, Inc. (E & E), Project Earth’s mission is to generate ongoing conversation and collaboration across national boundaries that will collectively lead to positive environmental change!2012 World Environment
Day Contest
Share your environmental efforts and enter your
projects today! Winners will be recognized by global
environmental leaders in conjunction with the
2012 UN Sustainable Development Conference - Rio+20
in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
World Environment Day Contest Details
2012 U.S. Earth Day Contest
Project Earth is hosting a national Earth Day Contest for grades K-12 featuring environmental projects, activities, and actions being taken to conserve resources and protect our environment. Be a part of this educational opportunity and enter your project.U.S. Earth Day Contest Details
Building a Worldwide
Environmental Community
With over 1,200 dedicated school teachers, students and
clubs participating in more than 1,000 projects in over
75 countries, Project Earth is building a world community
committed to positively changing the environment.
| 1310 | Schools/Clubs |
| 1106 | Projects |
| 78 | Countries |
"The environmental challenges we are facing today can only be solved by working together and engaging in constructive dialogue. Therefore, GCI supports Project Earth as a tool to encourage information sharing and awareness-raising worldwide."
- Alexander Likhotal, President, Green Cross International
"Project Earth connects our youth as one global community. The Web site serves as an incubator of ideas and solutions to enable this generation to contribute to making our planet sustainable for all future generations."
- Maurice Strong, Senior Advisor, to the Secretary-General of the United Nations
"Project Earth has been the perfect connection between our Buffalo students and the needs of our Planet. The Buffalo Teachers Federation is united and is expanding the use of Project Earth in our school system and beyond throughout the coming year."
- Phil Rumore, President, Buffalo Teachers Federation
"Project Earth is a window for the students of Niagara Falls to learn environmental lessons from their counterparts around the world. Since our city is a gateway to Canada, our kids know the importance of connecting across borders and with Project Earth we can take this interaction to a new level."
- Paul A. Dyster, Mayor, City of Niagara Falls, New York
"Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER, as a member of the international WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE, is pleased to support Project Earth. It allows students participating in our rain barrel and water quality programs to share their experiences with students world wide."
- Julie Barrett O'Neill, Executive Director , Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER
"Brookside Middle School is an International Baccalaureate World School, and part of the mission statement for IB is to nurture and protect our Planet Earth. We need to have more teachers use environmentally supportive projects to instill the responsibility in students. Ecology and Environment, though Project Earth is doing just that."
- Deb Walker, IB 6 Mangrove Project Coordinator, Brookside Middle School
“The Foundation is pleased to be a partner in the development of Project Earth and help connect our Russian students to their counterparts worldwide.”
- Rustem Khairov, Executive Director, International Foundation for Survival and Development of Humanity
"Project Earth provides an excellent platform to engage young people from around the globe in developing innovative solutions to our environmental problems in order to provide for a sustainable future."
- Bob Catell, Chairman, Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC) at Stony Brook University
“Project Learning Tree helps thousands of teachers and students do on the ground environmental work every year. This American Forest Foundation program can provide tools to Project Earth participants and access to a vibrant network of educators who implement and promote environmental projects in schools and communities around the world.”
- Tom Martin, President & Chief Executive Officer, American Forest Foundation
"Project Earth teaches the power of local action. Through these projects led by teachers and students around the world, our endangered species not only benefit, but so do all of us by expanding our knowledge of natural systems and human cultures."
- Brock Evans , President, Endangered Species Coalition
"We are very excited about this project, for it will allow our schools to share their environmental initiatives with the world. Our children will work on projects to improve our global environment, and collaborate with other schools worldwide. This will allow our students to learn how to be more sustainable, and share with many other cultures and countries that use advanced technology."
- María Ignacia Benítez, Minister of Environment, Chile

