Our Initiatives

At the height of the pandemic, we hosted virtual environmental documentary screenings followed by meaningful discussion.

We adopted a section of Quioccasin Road through the Virginia Department of Transportation in Henrico County and hold bi-annual, roadside cleanups.

We collaborated with the Virginia League of Conservation Voters to host a civic engagement night and a mock trial (with Delegate Schuylar VanValkenburg), intended to demonstrate the importance of the judicial branch in climate action/environmental protection.

We created a documentary on environmental racism/justice with another youth-led organization, Outspoken Narrative. We started the process by learning more about the topic, helping conduct air quality collection with the Science Museum of Virginia in Windsor Farms, an affluent neighborhood, and then in Jackson Ward, a historical underserved community densely populated by people of color. The film received Honorable Mention at the Richmond Environmental Film Festival.

We organized summer classes for elementary school-aged children through Project Engage, an organization run out of Freeman High School.

We donated hundreds of plastic bags to the Outer Banks Women’s Club to contribute to their initiative to create a sustainable bench out of material that, otherwise, would have been discarded.

GreenTeenz RVA co-founders, Camille, Kristina, and Maia chatted with Leah Jones, host of Environmental Justice Now!. Their conversation focuses on GreenTeenz’s initiatives, consequences of the climate crisis, and the importance of youth activism.

GreenTeenz co-founder Maia, and board member Payton, spent January 31st speaking to their state representatives about various climate-related bills. This event was made possible through the coordination of GreenUR.

GreenTeenz co-founder Maia spoke on a panel alongside Laura Thomas, director of Richmond’s Office of Sustainability, Sheri Shannon, co-founder of Southside Releaf, David Robinson, a Charlottesville-based climate lobbyist, and Damion Pitt, a VCU professor who studies how localities can respond to a warming climate at the Climate Action Plan Forum hosted by the Henrico Conservation Action Network.

GreenTeenz members Nina, Sastha, and Meghana gave a speech at a Henrico Board of Supervisors meeting, emphasizing the need for a Henrico climate action plan! They were featured in the Richmond-Times Dispatch and the Henrico Citizen!