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Before you put pen to paper, try taking a breath. Read how guided meditation can open up new possibilities for nature writing, and find a meditation you can try for yourself and bring to your students.
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Global E-STEM Awards winner, Up4 The Challenge developed the "Youth Power: Smart Schools" program to help students connect personal energy choices to global sustainability issues. Using a human-centered design approach, students explore solutions to "wicked" environmental problems.
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With support from the Global E-STEM Awards, VASCSC brought hands-on STEM workshops to students across Gujarat. Tracking simulations to help conserve Asiatic lions, and biomimicry lessons using lotus leaves and gecko feet as inspiration for sustainable engineering made STEM learning relevant.
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2024 Global E-STEM Awards winner, VASCSC brought hands-on climate workshops to communities across Gujarat—where students built compost units, tested air quality, and debated biodiversity, transforming abstract science into local solutions that now ripple through schools and villages alike.
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Salty soil, shrinking farmland, and a group of high schoolers who refused to sit it out. With assistance from the 2025 Global E-STEM Award, students teamed up with local farmers to build a solar-powered prototype—now reshaping how one school teaches science, tech, and community action.
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2025 CEE-Change fellow, Jaclyn Stallard, is building bridges as a Curriculum Advisor with Project Learning Tree (PLT). Her project, "ALOHA EE: Increasing Impact Across Hawai'i," focuses on bringing Project Learning Tree to the islands, but not through a traditional top-down approach. Instead…
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Through the Global E-STEM Awards’ Next Generation Transportation Grant, Fundación Pachamama is using a solar powered canoe as a learning platform as well as sustainable transportation that provides access to education for remote communities on the Amazon River.
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One of the most meaningful examples of the ripple effects of 2025 CEE-Change Fellow Cameron McKenzie's time with the CEE-Change Fellowship has been the development of a Tiny Forest and Outdoor Living Lab at Readington Middle School in New Jersey. Read more about how it shaped his approach to the…
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2025 CEE-Change Fellow Teresa Cole serves as the James River Association's director of education. Her Community Action Project reimagined the pre-existing programs to deepen students’ understanding of the issues related to the James River and empower more youth to make meaningful and lasting changes…
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Ginny Ellis-Kirifi is a 2025 CEE-Change Fellow working in Aotearoa (New Zealand) to inspire and educate young people as guardians of their environment. Learn more about Ginny's role with BLAKE, supporting the planning and delivery of week-long environmental education and leadership experiences.
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Discover how ee360+ is strengthening environmental education through collaboration with training Partners like Project WILD, to provide innovative and effective resources and training opportunities to broader networks and new audiences.
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Over the past five decades, children have lost much of the freedom to roam and build their own worlds. This blog asks what that decline in independent mobility might mean for children's mental well-being, weaving research with personal memories of developing a lasting sense of place.
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Mrs. Lalitha Murali, a teacher for the Glendale River-Hills School District and 2025 CEE-Change Fellow, reflects on her experience at the CEE-Change Leadership Institute. Following her time there, Lalitha worked to add a civic leadership layer to her school's STEAM Program.
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2025 CEE-Change Fellow Jeftey Saint Fleur writes about his arrival in the United States and inspiration for his Community Action Project, Green Bridges. He found opportunities to strengthen and refine the vision of the project at the CEE-Change Leadership Institute last year.
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It’s the time of the year when students and teachers alike are ready to head outdoors! Here are ideas and resources to take learning outside in ways that make us healthier, happier, and smarter.
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Supported by ee360 and ee360+, Earth Force and the Inland Seas Education Association (ISEA) are continuing to strengthen their eight-year organizational partnership. Together, they are working to train educators, deepen civic engagement, and help define what best practice looks like for the field.
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Earthstorytelling reimagines climate education in Northern Nigeria to help young people become active authors of ecological futures.
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ATi is an educational sustainability board and mobile game developed by Amanda Kporwofa through EcoGames Foundation to raise awareness about deforestation and environmental protection. Learn more about this game designed to combat the rapid loss of Ghana's forests.
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What can birds teach us about energy? This post highlights a program that uses bird adaptations as an entry point to explore energy concepts, making environmental education more engaging, accessible, and relevant to today’s challenges.
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With assistance from the 2024 Global E-STEM Award, Groundwork San Diego-Chollas Creek deepened their partnership with Millennial Tech Middle School to deliver a full-year, interdisciplinary, project-based learning (PBL) curriculum across 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.
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TriOceans Education Trust brings hands-on science education to young people growing up in coastal New Zealand communities. With help from a 2024 Global E-STEM Award, TriOceans launched an outreach program that offers experiential ocean science activities directly to schools and community groups.
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Hall buzzing, ideas sparking, superintendents connecting. Our NAAEE team joined the 2026 AASA National Conference with Project Learning Tree, saw hundreds of exhibitors uniting to fuel public education, explored sessions, and celebrated three environmental education champions.
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How do you grow water leadership in Northern Arizona? Dive into how a pilot Water Leadership Institute was designed, and read insights for designing place-based leadership programs.
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With support from the 2024 Global E-STEM Award, the Riley Orton Foundation (ROF) works to bring STEM concepts to rural schools in Kenya. In the organization's Climate Solutions project workshops, students learn renewable energy and IoT (Internet of Things) technologies, addressing clean water access…
