In 2014, Alicia White Founded Project Petals, an award-winning climate justice, environmental, and community development organization that mobilizes communities to get involved in climate action, environmental stewardship, and public policy in their communities. Project Petals creates and sustains environmentally sound, healthy, and climate-equitable communities in New York's under-resourced and BIPOC communities.

Since 2015, Project Petals has worked with environmental, climate, community, and youth leaders to connect communities to the resources they need to improve their environmental outcomes. Through their environmental initiatives and programs, they help communities shift environmental policy, become environmental stewards, and create green spaces in communities that have been and will be the most impacted by climate change. They teach people to grow food and learn climate resilience. Project Petals youth programming teaches young people how to be environmental leaders and exposes them to professions that will help improve the planet—working in an inter-generational model to provide environmental educational programming and climate leadership training and reduce barriers to healthier environments.