Blog
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What are your urban EE program goals? Watch this short video presenting trends in urban EE and how you can apply them to your programs. This video is part of the EECapacity EEResearch Seminar Series.
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Read about ancient support networks and how we can help today's children spend more time outside, learn how St Louis's first forest school is mapping its parks, check out images of the recent Nature-Based Preschool National conference in St Paul, and catch up on lots more news!
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Exciting cross-cultural experience for young adults from Alaska and Los Angeles.
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Being an Ally isn’t easy. It is the multifaceted, messy, ever-evolving process of figuring out how best to support people of color as you learn more about your own privilege and implicit biases. I’ve seen Allies among those with conservative, liberal and independent views proving the racism is not…
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After the shooting of Alton Sterling, a friend of mine sat in his cubicle and wept for the loss of this man and the grief that his family now has to face as a reality. My friend sat three feet away from the office printer, where many people came, took their copies, and ignored my grief stricken…
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Learn about using mud in your natural classrooms. Read about a bilingual, green preschool. Find out how to register yourself and/or your exhibit at the October NAAEE conference in Madison. Keep up with the latest ECEE news and job opportunities.
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“Living for oneself will do absolutely nothing to fill the gasping hole inside of you. In my experience that void gets filled, not through strength but through weakness. You must be weak before the world because love and listening weaken you, they make you vulnerable, they break you open and its is…
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Elvia Rodriguez Ochoa, Neighborhood Programs Director for Openlands in Chicago, is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, and administrator, active for over twenty years. Steeped in community based practices, Elvia has helped foster the creative community in Chicago by collaborating with groups as…
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DEADLINE PAST - - NAAEE has embarked on an exciting venture and we would like to ask for your assistance. NAAEE is developing a sixth set of guidelines as part of the National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education.
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Green infrastructure, such as urban parks, community gardens, green buildings and green roofs, represents a network of human-managed and natural ecosystems that together enhance ecosystem health and climate change resilience, contribute to biodiversity, and benefit human populations through the…
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Environmental arts cultivate imagination and provoke reflection, helping citizens to think critically and creatively about environmental issues.
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Adding an intergenerational component to environmental education programs enriches the learning experience for participants of all ages.
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When environmental education enables children and youth to contribute to improving urban environments, it can not only increase cities’ sustainability and resilience but also foster young people’s personal growth.
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Today: June 8 at 3PM EST
Considering a wide array of perspectives helps us be more effective and creates an environment that allows us to honor our diverse beliefs, attitudes, languages, interpersonal styles, and values. NAAEE will host a panel of experts on diversity and inclusion in environmental… -
Urban environmental education facilitates children’s contact with and learning about urban nature and the built environment.
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Climate change education addresses immediate safety and risk reduction, as well as longer-term actions to enhance environmental quality.
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Sense of place, including place attachment and place meanings, can help people appreciate ecological aspects of cities.
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Sc3 Student Fellow Sophie Stern shares her thoughts on her experience at the Student Climate and Conservation Congress (Sc3)
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Community environmental education uses environmental learning and action to foster community wellness in cities and other settings.
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The unequal representation of people of color in environmental work is a situation that many of us know needs to change. We realize that in order to make real impact on the environmental issues that affect us all, we all need to be a part of the conversation.
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Urban schools can use local environments to serve as stimulus, context, and content for teaching and learning about sustainability.
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Read on to learn how participating in EECapacity's CCC Fellowship impacted the president of the MERITO Foundation, its work, as well as over 800 students in California through the creation of the Energy Efficiency to Mitigate Climate Change and Ocean Acidification (EECCOA) program.
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We need cities that are resilient, sustainable, livable, and just. Urban EE can help debunk common assumptions that cities are ecologically barren, and city people don’t care for, or need, nature.
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Check out six great examples of urban EE programs from around the world!
