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The Green Center and Provident

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Aesthetic Documentation: Addressing Enviromental Justice Issues through the Arts

This summer Green Jobs training program is a new 4-week program that will introduce 25 young adults ages 16-21 to conservation practices, including ecological monitoring, native and invasive plant identification, watershed function, rain barrel construction, and rain garden design. Programming will take place at The Green Ceter's 30 acres of woods, prairie, wetland and learning gardens on University City at the Shreve Center and 25 acre Calvary Cemetery Prairie, the sole original prairie in the metropolitan region. A culminating project will enable students to apply skills and knowlegde gained by creating formal plans to enhance green spaces through nativescaping and art installations.