The CommonBond Communities project focused on providing information about waste and toxicity reduction to the residents of Skyline Tower, Seward Tower East, and Seward Tower West. They used a multi-faceted approach to create measurable impacts on the behavior of the residents, who are primarily East African immigrants and refugees, many of whom do not speak English and do not read or write in any language.

Green Time presentations were held at the three high-rise apartment buildings to provide ongoing and specific education about shopping to reduce waste, reusable shopping bags, recycling, household hazardous waste, non-toxic cleaners, and electronic waste. Eight resident leaders, all bilingual or multilingual in East African languages, were trained on the topics and became ambassadors throughout the buildings to help other residents understand and become more active in the new concepts of recycling, shopping to reduce excess packaging, dealing with household hazardous waste, and using non-toxic cleaners. They created a video at Skyline Tower to show residents how to keep trash separate from recycling and also where in the building to take recyclables. Information about what to do with electronic waste was added to basic computer skills curricula and was also integrated into other venues, such as on the screen of every computer in each computer lab.