Environmental Issues Forums (EIF) provides tools, training, and support for engaging adults and students in meaningful, productive discussions about sticky issues that affect the environment and communities.

To create EIF, NAAEE rekindled a partnership with the Kettering Foundation, a nonprofit cooperative research organization that focuses on what it takes to make democracy work. 

The first issue guide, Climate Choices: How Should We Meet the Challenges of a Warming Planet?, is officially available. 

Through NAAEE and Kettering's collaboration, the Climate Choices Issue Guide was prepared for the National Issues Forums Institute. The Environment and Society Series is designed to promote meaningful, productive deliberation, convened locally and online, about difficult issues that affect the environment and communities.

NAAEE and Kettering would like to share some announcements about EIF and Climate Choicess and how you can become involved in helping the initiative. Click here to learn more about EIF and becoming a moderator and to download the Climate Voices guide. 

How can you help? The EIF team is just getting started. Here are a couple of things that would really help:

• Become a Common Ground for Action online moderator (Please act soon! Forums begin on Friday, April 22 and last through Friday, April 29!)
• Publicize EIF and the availability of Climate Choices. 
• Sponsor a forum.
• Help develop a teacher module that supports the use of Climate Choices in the classroom. (This effort contributes to EIF's commitment to implement the Climate Choices issue guide in at least 100 classrooms across the country by the end of 2016. The White House included EIF and this goal on page 13 of the President's Climate Education and Literacy Initiative.) 
• Attend the moderator training workshop at the NAAEE Annual Conference in October 2016 (Madison, WI) 

On behalf of the EIF team, thank you for all of your support! Feel free to email Bora Simmons with any questions or comments: borasimmons@gmail.com