Environmental advocacy work provides students with opportunities to increase their knowledge and awareness of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed as well as the larger world environment. Then, that knowledge is used to show the interrelatedness of the entire global environment, to expand students' outlook from the neighborhood level to the biosphere level.

Youth participating Holistic Life Foundation programs have facilitated community clean-ups, built a raised bed community vegetable garden, helped build a park on a vacant lot, built worm-composting bins, testified in front of the Baltimore City Council in support of the Baltimore City Sustainability Plan, received Presidential Environmental Youth Awards for outstanding youth environmental stewardship from President Obama, participated in an annual Earth Day tree planting, as well as other environmental activities.