Thank you for joining us from your homes to tune in to our first ever Youtube live event!
ARPIL 18, 2020
Green Hope Project thanks you, from the bottom of our hearts!
We were still able to enjoy the art, the artists, the prizes and the friends!
Please continue enjoying the art by clicking on our T2T Gallery.
METAMORPHOSIS:
Trash to Treasure IV
LIVE AWARDS CEREMONY
TRASH TO TREASURE IV AWARD WINNERS
Winners and Prizes have been announced during our LIVE VIRTUAL awards ceremony on Saturday, May 30th, at 2 pm. Watch the showcase below.
The top 100 pieces will be printed and framed, to be showcased at the Socorro ISD District Service Center at 12440 Rojas Drive. In addition, the top 100, have been announced and also our 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place winners for each category, along with several honorable mentions.
After a decade of cleanups, workshops, exhibitions, curriculum design, community events, and public art installations, Green Hope Project will be dissolving.
From our 100+ volunteer adopt-a-highway events and EPA-funded environmental justice curricula to creating recycled art at La Nube highlighting the Bighorn Sheep, we have loved every moment. We’ve been honored to bring art therapy to youth at the Juvenile Probation Department and collaborate with world-renowned Portuguese artist Bordalo II to bring "Frankie," the 64-foot recycled plastic mountain lion mural, to downtown El Paso. We even successfully organized and hosted a virtual environmental summit during the pandemic, securing Earthships creator Michael Reynolds as the keynote speaker.
For ten years, we’ve loved bringing you Trash to Treasure, our recycled art contest which turned everyday waste into beautiful masterpieces. On top of that, we were named the sole winners of the It’s Your World contest—an honor that brought Chelsea Clinton to visit and collaborate with us twice!
As we step back to focus on our families and health, we hope we leave a lasting impact on the community we love so much.
While our team will continue advocating for art, education, and the environment individually, we hope the seeds we’ve planted inspire Anew community-led initiatives. Thank you for an incredible ten years!
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CHELSEA CLINTON
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has". - Margaret Mead
tHANK YOU FOR THE GOOD TIMES!!!
Past Events
Celebrating 3 Years of
Bordalo II in El Paso
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THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS
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In collaboration with
Franklin Mountain Investments, Paso del Norte Community Foundation & El Paso Environmental Services Department, Green Hope Project
is proud to bring the world-renowned environmental artist, Bordalo II, from Portugal to create a BIG TRASH ANIMAL mural to downtown El Paso.
Our hope is to bring awareness to the plight of endangered, threatened and species of greatest conservation need animals in our region and state.
Thank you for your support!!!
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
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SAPLING SPONSORS
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A HUGE
THANK YOU
to everyone who donated, shared, and supported us during El Paso Giving Day! Because of you, we surpassed our goal! This means a lot to a small nonprofit like ours. Thank you to Marathon Petroleum Corporation for the $10,000 matching grant!!!
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THANK YOU
Green Hope Projects 2022
WANT TO KNOW WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO?
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Environmental Summit
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Trash to Treasure- recycled art contest & exhibition
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Recycled art workshops
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Environmental curriculum for teachers
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Art workshops
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Bordalo II- Frankie the Puma Mural
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Desert cleanup
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Come see Ram-arkable Resilience: Art Meets Conservation, a recycled art installation created by Green Hope Project in collaboration with La Nube STEAM Discovery Center, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), Socorro ISD, & Ysleta ISD. The installation will be on display from September 28th through November 2, 2024.
Made entirely out of recycled trash, this exhibit aims to challenge our community to rethink their impact on our local environment and how we can support wildlife conservation. The materials used include cardboard boxes, discarded foam, water bottles, newspaper, plastic forks, and even some damaged fabric from one of La Nube’s exhibits. All components of the completed piece were created by students and art instructors, Katie Gelinas (Parkland High School), Raul Monarrez (Del Valle High School), Kristian Torres & Sarah Briseno Merlin (Vista Del Sol Environmental Science Academy), and child workshop attendees from La Nube.
Ram-arkable Resilience depicts El Paso’s iconic mountain range and imagines what it may be like to spot a desert bighorn sheep roaming the slopes. And this vision may not be too far in the future. Ram-arkable Resilience also serves as a celebration of the TPWD project to relocate some of the desert bighorn sheep from Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area to Franklin Mountains State Park later this year.
This project is part of the larger state-wide program to restore desert bighorns to Texas and protect the current herds. Over the last few years, there have been drastic die-offs in some of the populations due to infectious diseases that have put a damper on many of these efforts.
The reintroduction of these amazing animals to Franklin Mountains State Park is part of TPWD’s plans to counter these setbacks. With the unlikely protective border of the city surrounding the park, the desert bighorn herd can grow into a healthy population away from
competition with invasive Aoudad, an African sheep-like ungulate also known as Barbary Sheep.
To learn more about TPWD’s efforts to restore our desert bighorn sheep. Scan the QR code here.
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE
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Thank you so much to everyone that tuned in for our first-ever virtual Environmental Summit and Trash to Treasure Awards Ceremony! Having you support events such as this gives us hope that our movement is growing. Be sure to check out the entire T2T gallery to see all the incredibly moving artwork that was created! Also, register for our newsletter, tag us on social media with any GHP-related posts, and register for any or all of our 48 environmental workshops to be entered into our giveaways all throughout April & May!
Green Hope Project POR VIDA!
Thank you to our Speakers:
Veronica Escobar - US Congresswoman
Michael Reynolds - Earthship Architect
Ellen Smyth - ESD Managing Director
VIEW THE TRASH TO TREASURE AWARDS CEREMONY BELOW.
Check out what we have done for our beloved El Paso!
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Kid and family workshops, where science and art supplies will be provided to attendees!
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Outdoor workshops at state parks!
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Composting workshops!
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Gardening workshops!
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Solar cooking workshops!
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Advocacy workshops!
In December the National Society of High School Scholars, an organization that was co-founded by Claes Nobel, of the Nobel Prize, awarded Green Hope Project a grant. We are so incredibly grateful to NSHSS for helping us to continue our art, education, and environmental efforts! We are honored to be one of the ten recipients of the Be More Fund, receiving $10,000! We will use these funds to begin building the first of 4 machines to repurpose plastic waste, gathering educators to begin writing art/environmentalism curriculum, and bring Bordalo II, a world-renowned muralist, to El Paso, Texas to create a trash mural in our city.
We are thrilled to be a part of these NSHSS members and educators that impressed the judges with their initiatives that strive for world betterment.
To see the complete list of the 10 winners of the $100,000 Be More Fund who competed for a $10,000 grant during the virtual Be More-A-Thon, click on the image below.
Check out our 2020 winner of the BE MORE FUND!
Newsworthy
Be More Fund - NSHSS
Nature Walk
Photography
Poster Design: Zulema Macias
Photography by Benny Pol & Liz DeMoultrie
Our Franklin Mountain Nature Walk was a huge success! So many people were interested in attending, that we have decided to do more such events in the future. Be sure to follow us on social media to get up-to-date information about event announcements.
Here is a note from the judges, Liz DeMoultrie and Benny Pol.
We have basically taken all these pictures at some point in time, so we can relate to the photographers finding something interesting or beautiful enough to capture. There were clearly different levels of observation and appreciation of the beauty within this group of shots.
We chose the Cactus Wren photo by Claudia Cardenas as the winner. It's difficult to capture a bird this clearly, especially a busy body like a Cactus Wren collecting nesting materials.
Hopefully, the participants are going out and taking more photographs on their own. Nothing tells a story like an image!
Check out all the amazing photo submissions we received.
If you were not able to join us but you are interested in taking a nature walk on your own, make a reservation with the Texas State Parks. Click below.