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Divisions

Classrooms

Our Classrooms division is all about turning classrooms into spaces for exploring and demonstrating sustainable living early in life.

Households

The Households Division creates sustainable living education systems that inspire residents and families to be part of the solution.

Workplaces

The Workplaces Division builds a community and culture of sustainable workplace behaviors in businesses large and small throughout Nashville.

Special Initiatives

Environmental Justice

The Nashville Environmental Justice Initiative is growing a movement of environmental justice learning that protects Nashville's most marginalized communities.

Food Waste

Urban Green Lab is partnering with organizations to develop and implement strategies and tools as models for cities across the country.

BLOG

Beyond the B: The Power of the B Corp Community for Sustainable Change

March 7, 2023

What’s in a sustainable business? We think it’s much more than offsetting carbon, going plastic-neutral, or paying above the minimum wage.

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Food For Thought: Wasted!

February 28, 2023

Hungry to learn? Join Second Harvest on March 19th for a documentary screening of Wasted! The Story of Food Waste followed by a brief panel with Urban Green Lab’s Executive Director, Todd Lawrence.

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Culturally-centered Nature Programming

February 28, 2023

Join us on the next episode of Sustainable in the City for an important conversation with Unearthing Joy’s founder, Ashley Brailsford, as we discuss the responsibility we have in the sustainability space to make our work joyful, inclusive, and relevant to the people we are in community with.

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Recent News

Today in Nashville ft. Nashville Food Waste Initiative

August 21, 2018

Linda Breggin, from The Nashville Food Waste Initiative, speaks with Today in Nashville about Kroger’s new campaign to combat food waste.

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Urban Green Lab, VU, & Partners Launch Statewide Curriculum to Inspire Sustainable Living, Prevent Waste in Cities

July 10, 2018

Urban Green Lab, in partnership with Vanderbilt University, Metro Nashville Public Schools, and the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation, trained 30 Metro Nashville teachers today ….

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Nashville Tries To Set An Example In Food Waste Reduction

March 15, 2018

The Natural Resources Defense Council has chosen Nashville as a model city for a year-long concentration on reducing food waste.

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Nashville Restaurants Fighting Food Waste Can Now Hitch A Ride For Their Leftovers

January 24, 2018

Every year, the equivalent of about 10 million meals in Nashville are tossed in the trash, while one in six residents doesn’t have enough food.

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