Young people are keenly aware of climate change and how it impacts the local environment and the planet. Your donation will help youth prepare for their environmental future by providing educational field trips for Title 1 schools and paid internships for high school and college students throughout Los Angeles.

Will you help support Los Angeles youth working towards a more resilient climate-ready future?

Every summer, Nature Nexus Institute Summer Fellows program begins. Our environmental stewards, who have graduated from our High School Greenhouse program, finished our Conservation Studies courses, and participated in our nature program for the Exceptional Children’s Foundation, come together to care for the local ecosystem at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook and Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area. Every summer, these environmental stewards embrace the challenging working conditions of removing non-native invasive plant species and saving the growing California native vegetation so that the native wildlife may thrive. Not all heroes wear capes; in this case, they wear yellow safety vests.

Nature Nexus Institute does lots of work to restore habitat, especially in the Baldwin Hills Parklands, and to promote the use of native plants, both in public and private spaces. Native plants thrive on the usual 10 to 12 inches of rain we receive annually in our region-they are water-wise! In addition, they prefer the nitrogen-poor native soils local to Southern California. This eliminates the need to use fertilizers high in nitrogen and other components that are necessary to grow a lawn and other introduced flora

You can catch The Link on La Cienega and Jefferson on weekends and holidays for 25 cents. It is just a short ride to one of these 3 unique green spaces.

Summer Camp for kids comes in all kinds of formats. I recently learned that there is such a thing as Minecraft Camp, where attendees spend all day inside, in front of computers, perfecting their gaming skills! We at Nature Nexus Institute are the polar opposite in our approach-all outdoors, all day long!

Nature Nexus Institute was thrilled to co-present the Green Feather Award in 2023, a component of the Omega Sci-Fi Awards science fiction writing contest open to high school students throughout Los Angeles County.