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.
Current Events
Drum Roll Please!!!
After careful evaluation and consideration, all Trash to Treasure IX
entries have been judged! To see whether or not your entry was admitted, please refer to our official list of admitted works directly below.
We thank all the artists who participated in this venture and hope you will consider entering again next year! We have such great talent in our region and are so impressed with the artwork we received.
Thank you to our sponsors:
Past Events
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 PROJECT can use your help to continue bringing art, environmentalism and education to our region. Together we can have a great impact on our community. Take a peek below to see what your donations will make happen. Help Green Hope Project bring art, education, and environmentalism to our region!
You are still needed!
WANT TO HELP US OUT?
THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS YOUR DONATION WILL SUPPORT!
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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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Green Hope Projects 2022
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.
2023 T2T VII
RECYCLED ART CONTEST
RESULTS
After careful evaluation and consideration, all entries to Trash to Treasure VII have been judged! We received 334 submissions!
We thank all the artists who participated in this venture and hope that you will consider entering again next year! We are aiming to have the 2024 showcase in person. We have such great talent in our region and were so impressed with the work we received.
THANK YOU
for joining us for our
Trash to Treasure awards ceremony!
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSOR
Bordalo II in El Paso
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.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO HELP?
SUPPORT GREEN HOPE PROJECT & THEIR EFFORTS
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
AMAZON
SPONSORS
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TREE SPONSORS
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SAPLING SPONSORS
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This Is How You Can Help!
As a result of price increases across the board, we need your help to get the remainder of the money needed to have this installation! The lumber needed for the wall prep, the flights and tools required have all gone up in price!
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If you are interested in making a donation to Green Hope Project, please visit our donation page.
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If you would like to support us by making a purchase from our plant fundraiser, please contact us.
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If you would like to learn more about the recognition tier levels, check out our sponsorship packet. We are very open to taking not just monetary donations, but in-kind donations, as well.
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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.
Continue enjoying the fun!!!! Sign up for one of our workshops. Once you register you will get an email with the meeting location or link. Check out what we have in store 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!
If you or someone you know is interested in getting more information about attending our Environmental Summit, please sign up for our newsletter and follow our social media accounts!
Thank you to our sponsors, partners & donors!
PLANTS ON THE BRAIN
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Nora E. Reyes - Artist
El Paso Community Foundation & West Texas Urban Forestry Council
A very special thank you to all of the Environmental Summit Action Committee members who helped make this possible. From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU!
Judy Ackerman from Franklin Mountains Wilderness Coalition
Meghan Curry from Insights
Sarah Elena Dillabough from Eco El Paso / Quantum Engineering Consultants / Frontera Land Alliance / Open Space Advisory Board / West Texas Urban Forestry Council
Kevin Floyd from El Paso Audubon, Centennial Museum, and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens
Maryflor Garcia from The Frontera Land Alliance
Elizabeth Preza from EPCC
Martha Koester& Lilly Adriano from Environmental Services Department
Gertrud Konings
April Lopez from El Paso Water
Ivan Nino from Court Administrator for the 388th Judicial District Court with Honorable Judge Gonzalez presiding.
Lydia Pagel from Texas Parks and Wildlife
Jennifer Ramos-Chavez from Insights
Janae Reneaud Field from The Frontera Land Alliance
Anne Stephan from National Park Service, Chamizal National Memorial
Jazmine Venegas from the office of Congresswoman Veronica Escobar
Cindy Williams retired librarian
Gary Williams
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
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.
Photography by Benny Pol & Liz DeMoultrie
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.