Earth Day was founded in 1970 to protest the degradation of the environment and has grown into a worldwide event with over a billion people worldwide participating annually.
This Earth Day, we are calling on the Columbus City Schools community—students and teachers, staff and the surrounding community—to take a stand for clean air, clean water, renewable energy, and the protection of our health and our children’s futures.
We are holding events at schools around the district. Together, we’re building community and sending a message that the CCS community cares about sustainability and resiliency.
Westgate families came together and completed a school beautification project, did a trash pick up and planted a pollinator garden for the community to enjoy.
The West Broad community came together to support the school environment by planting a pollinator garden and painting colorful rocks, creating a vibrant space that encourages biodiversity while bringing students together through creativity and teamwork.
Our school celebrated Earth Day with a lively parade and a creative art activity using recycled materials, bringing the school community together to promote environmental awareness and sustainability in a fun, hands-on way.
In celebration of Earth Day, our high school science students participated in a hands-on initiative to plant native gardens around the school.
This project supports local biodiversity, enhances our school environment, and allowed us to work together toward a more sustainable future, a value CCS committed to when it passed the Safe Green Schools policy. Native plants play a vital role in supporting pollinators, conserving water, and restoring natural habitats, and our students have been learning about these impacts firsthand.
To celebrate Earth Day, we teamed up with our friends from What Would Marcus Do to take part in a neighborhood clean-up, working together to keep our community clean while building a shared sense of responsibility for the environment.
For Indianola’s Earth Day event, our school community worked together to clean up the schoolyard and prepare the garden beds for the growing season, helping create a welcoming outdoor space while learning about care for the environment.
Hubbard community members held a clothing swap in celebration of Earth Day. Together we kept clothes out of landfills and gave them a second life. We swapped, shared, and celebrated sustainability together.
The North Linden community came together to celebrate Earth Day with a fun and educational sustainability fair. Attendees planted a garden and seeds to take home, found new-to-them items at the clothing swap, created found poetry and recycled art, and relaxed with a community yoga session.
The CAHS community, led by its students, did a neighborhood Cleanup. This generation is taking responsibility for actively improving their neighborhood and the environment.