Lindsey Johnson Newport News Green Foundation Property

 Last year, I took Environmental Ethics with Dr. Balay. For this class, we were put into groups for a semester long project where we were tasked with creating a plan to improve a select property owned by the Newport News Green Foundation, a non-profit organization. Each group was given a different property and my group's was 315 Center Avenue. The property was essentially just a small empty field towards the front of a neighborhood. My group surveyed the surrounding homes to get an idea of what the community wanted the property to be by handing out flyers. We didn't receive a lot of responses but the majority of people who responded said that they would like to see park benches and tables put on the property. My group also observed that kids were often playing on the field, so in our initial design we thought leaving the field mostly open was a good idea. After coming up with a plan, we did research on what plants would do the best in the soil in the area and picked out some that would be aesthetically pleasing. We also came up with fundraising ideas, such as having a Boy Scout troop build birdhouses and organizing a plastic collection at CNU to receive a free bench from NexTrex tables. At the end of the year, we presented our proposal to a member of the Newport News Green Foundation and were told that they would be selecting one of the group's plans to implement. To my surprise, I recently found out that the Newport News Green Foundation received a grant from Dominion Energy and selected my group's project!

I think it is really cool that our project was the one that was selected and I plan on participating in the planting and building of the property. It feels really good knowing that I was involved in helping improve a community. I am also glad that the bushes and other shrubbery that is being planted can serve as a habitat for local wildlife. 

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