Blog
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Learn how a secular version of Lent provides an opportunity to expand one’s consciousness, improve one’s health, and reduce one’s footprint. This blog post also includes a Lenten Calendar for 2023 available for download.
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Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni, Helio Aurelio Banze, is joining NAAEE for a virtual Alumni Professional Development Experience. Learn about his background and how he will be contributing to the Global Environmental Education Partnership (GEEP) team!
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Guest writer Julia Gerwe believes that connecting people to nature holds the key to collective abundance. Today, Julia’s passion for community and environmental education sustains her work as Member Coordinator of the Environmental Education Leadership Corps AmeriCorps program throughout Kentucky.
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Understanding and recognizing the general abilities of children in early childhood education can support teachers in managing groups in the outdoors. Read this blog by eePRO moderator, Suzanne Major, to learn how.
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Learn about the Pratt & Whitney E-STEM awards program and what winners are doing to advance E-STEM in their communities!
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To connect with the 2023 Black History Month theme “Black Resistance,” we want to share the resilience and determination of place-based initiatives that address the systemic environmental injustices in Black communities across the country. Learn about Ohio's long history with environmental injustice…
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Read about NAAEE's plans for appropriations advocacy this year, successes from last year, and more!
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One never knows how a simple nature experience can impact a student, a child, a grandchild. It all started as a simple observation and then recreation and a recommendation and then an acceptance letter. The parable is, never miss the opportunity to share nature with someone else...we never can…
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A series of workshop outlines designed to help you plan and lead professional learning experiences focusing on each of the six Guidelines for Excellence publications produced through the National Project for Excellence in Environmental Education.
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CEE-Change Fellow Angela Rivera Rautmann talks to NAAEE's Carrie Albright about her community action project. During her time as a 7th-grade science and social studies teacher at Patrick Marsh Middle School, Angela's community action project provided students with an opportunity to not only dive…
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In this Harvest Stories, Jesse Baines of Atlantic Sea Farms shares how a team of kelp farmers use education to positively impact coastal communities as climate change makes landfall and wild fisheries are disrupted in Maine.
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Join SEI as we take a look at some of the highlights from this semester of the Climate Corps Education Outside training program!
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NAAEE and the U.S. EPA provided over thirty ee360+ scholarships to help make the conference more accessible to professionals and students who showcased their work in communities impacted by environmental injustice and climate change thanks to this funding.
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Ankit Pandey, senior associate at Climate and Sustainability, Swaniti Initiative and EE 30 Under 30, discusses how Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) can transform higher education and create sustainable societies.
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NAAEE will unveil the new eePRO on December 16. Read for more details.
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Mahawa Komala is an environmental educator advocating for the sustainable use and management of community forests in Liberia.
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Plangnan Damshakal, founder of the Eco Friendly Africa Initiative, details climate change impacts in the Sahel region.
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Basaija Augustine, director of the Youth Conservation Education Project, faces a unique community conservation challenge and its repercussions in schools.
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CUBE Co-Founder Therese Keita describes working towards advancing STEAM-equity and climate action on the African continent.
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Dr. Jeremy Solin shares how he connected to the land and made it his business. We make meaning by seeking associations with the land. Aldo Leopold saw it this way: "When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." When we see things through the eyes…
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As environmental educators, it can be easy to focus on problems like climate change, deforestation, and extinction, but that can have negative impacts on young generations. Rather than inspiring them to care more, this can sometimes have the opposite affect by causing young people to feel helpless…
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The "culture of danger," as in child-proofing homes, daycare facilities, and outside play areas, has touched every aspect of early childhood education. How can one go about playing in backyards and play areas when one lives near bears, moose, and coyotes? It is all about acquiring knowledge of…
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Dive into the story of an Ohioan partnership linking people and small businesses across the state through education, and follow the yellow perch's journey from source to plate in the latest Harvest Stories.
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After college, I became disheartened that environmental education was not the career path that I wanted to continue. Every position I saw offered low wages, part-time, or volunteer work. Then I found Westgate Community School (WCS), a K–12 charter school unlike any other. Environmental Education and…
