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Tell the Economic Story of Your Farmland Protection & Food System Programs Without Hiring an Economist, Tuesdays Sept 12–Oct. 10, 2023

The Harbinger Consulting Group

You don’t need to hire an economist and wade through piles of complex data to understand the economic benefits of your programs, locally conserved lands, farms and local food systems This course will help you learn to paint a broad, research and data-based picture of the economic effects of your farmland protection and food system programs. You will also learn how to tell that story to support advocacy, fundraising, agriculture-based economic development, and stronger community relationships. You will learn and adapt a proven approach that engages community resources without hiring an economist, consultant or communications shop.

Tell the Economic Story of Your Conserved Lands and Trails Without Hiring an Economist, June 6 - July 11, 2023

The Harbinger Consulting Group

You don’t need to hire an economist and wade through piles of complex data to understand the economic benefits of your programs. This course will help you learn to paint a broad, research and data-based picture of the economic effects of your trail system or conserved lands—or project the benefits of a proposed trail or conservation program. You will also learn how to tell that story to support advocacy, fundraising, conservation-based economic development, and stronger community relationships. You will learn and adapt a proven approach that engages community resources without hiring an economist, consultant or communications shop.

Outdoor Recreation Roadmap: A Community-Led Approach to Leveraging Your Natural Assets for Economic Success and Local Renewal, Thursdays April 6–May 4, 2023

The Harbinger Consulting Group

Whether they are old hands or just getting started, communities across the country—and around the world—are looking to outdoor recreation to play a bigger role in their community and economic development strategies, and even to anchor a new sense of common purpose, pride and care.

So how do you make this work for you? In this course, we drill down to the nitty gritty—how to bring your community together around outdoor recreation to generate more awareness and buy-in, make quick progress that can be sustained over time, and create meaningful changes that make a difference for your community’s business and economic vitality, physical health and confidence. You’ll learn a step-by-step process that you can adapt to use “nature-based placemaking” to transform how your community sees, talks about and invests in itself to make it a more attractive place to live, visit and do business.

Do-It-Yourself Trail User Research You Can Start Right Away

The Harbinger Consulting Group

In this online course, you will learn how to pull together—and pull off—a meaningful trail study that you can afford. You’ll emerge with a plan for a trail study that you can implement right away, whether you have money or not, using targeted volunteer effort, free or low-cost tools, and an approach focused on what you most want or need to learn. You will also learn how to analyze your results, present findings, and use your study to catalyze action.

2024 Forests of NH Teacher Tour

New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association (NHTOA)

This professional development opportunity includes a 4-day tour of New Hampshire forests and mills. The tour incorporates a Project Learning Tree workshop and lessons throughout the visits. Participants will have the chance to meet with loggers, foresters, mill owners, and other natural resource and forest products professionals. Certification of 30 hours of continuing education credits will be awarded | July 23–July 26, 2024

A Wade Institute for Science Education professional workshop for grades 9–12 educators
An Approved Course for MA DESE’s Accelerating Science: Open Access Professional Learning

EGLE Classroom is a place where educators, families, and youth can access the resources they need to learn about Michigan’s environment, EGLE’s work to protect it, and what they can do to contribute to that work.

Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults–Rescheduled

The Outdoor Learning School & Store

Join us to learn from award-winning, best-selling Indigenous author and professional consultant Monique Gray Smith as she shares about her most recent published book, the adaptation of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ for the Young Adult audience.

Amplify Your Practice for People and the Planet

Talaterra

Join Sandy Sohcot and Ellen Sebastian Chang of The World As It Could Be Human Rights Education Program to amplify the impact of your environmental education practice.

In this workshop, you’ll consider your educational objectives and the impact your programs have on people and the planet. You will engage in conversation about the fundamental purpose of environmental education and reflect on how the Universal Declaration of Human Rights connects with your practice and environmental education overall.

Implementation Idea: Integrating Project Learning Tree in Undergraduate Education

NAAEE

You're invited! Join the Higher Education eePRO Group on Friday, Dec. 16 at 12 PM CT / 1 PM ET.

Education and the Circular Economy Webinar

GEEP

Don’t miss this GEEP webinar recording explaining the concept of a circular economy and how to use education to further sustainability efforts. Set at 9:00 PM ET Dec. 19/10:00 AM Taiwan Time Dec. 20, this global webinar brought together speakers from the Philippines, Taiwan, and the U.S.