Blog
-
Curious about how your organization can better support civic engagement? This new toolkit busts common myths, shares real-world insights, and highlights the powerful roles museums, science centers, and others can play in building more informed and connected communities.
-
In this essay following the 2025 EE and Civic Engagement panel discussions hosted by Cornell, Nathan Spees examines youth empowerment programs, highlighting how giving youth a voice and agency can lead to meaningful political engagement and lasting change.
-
Dr. John Dryzek explores the concept of deliberative democracy in this follow-up to the 2025 EE and Civic Engagement panel discussions hosted by Cornell. Dr. Dryzek's essay defines deliberation, provides examples of its use, and examines five reasons it should support sustainability.
-
As a follow-up to the 2025 EE and Civic Engagement panel discussions hosted by Cornell, Dr. Yun-Wen Chan shares more about place-based deliberation, as a way to encourage learners to consider different stakeholder perspectives while examining environmental issues.
-
Students at Tree Heroes Club dig into hands-on ecological investigations—measuring trees, studying leaves, and learning about the local watershed. But they're also growing something bigger: community. Read a new Watershed Chronicles blog post from Boxerwood, a grantee of the eeBLUE 21st CCLC…
-
Despite ongoing conflict in Northern Uganda, ERONet empowers women, youth, and people with disabilities through innovative Environmental STEM programs. By addressing unemployment and educational inequality, they equip communities with the skills to tackle local and global environmental challenges.
-
CEE-Change Fellow Mariam Kabamba describes how the Fellowship revived her hope and provided the support she needed to run a youth-focused environmental and climate leadership training in the Haut Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
-
CEE-Change Fellow and Director of Education at Westport River Watershed Alliance, Kim Botelho, shares how the Fellowship shaped her career and approach to education. Her project introduced students to climate education, showing them how their actions, big or small, can impact the environment.
-
CEE-Change Fellow Hamza Malik discusses the impact of community partnerships on his Community Action Project to raise awareness of coastal bird habitats at the Lloyd Center for the Environment Estuary.
-
CEE-Change Fellow Vanessa Barela knows the value of outdoor education. Join Vanessa on a journey of self-discovery. She discusses how she broke barriers to promote outdoor learning within the New Mexico Public Education Department (NMPED) and what she learned about herself throughout the process.
-
CEE-Change Fellow Jeff Geist discusses how the Fellowship was a transformative experience and how he implemented what he learned into his Community Action Project by working with adults and children to build climate resilience in his community.
-
CEE-Change Fellow Jaeydah Edwards embarked on a mission to help Cincinnati residents understand how climate change impacts air quality and their health. Read more in Clearing the Air on Climate Change in Cincinnati, Ohio, and what they can do to fight this issue.
-
To mark Apollo 14's 50th Anniversary, NASA and the USDA Forest Service sent seeds to outer space for the Moon Trees Project. Learn about one of the Moon Trees planted at the Botanic Garden in Traverse City, Michigan.
-
CEE-Change Fellow Gitanjali Paul empowers educators as change agents for a sustainable world. Read about her Community Action Project that connects educators from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to integrate climate education and action through systems thinking to tackle complex issues.
-
Our CEE-Change Fellow and 8th-grade science teacher at Haslett Middle School, Bridget Booth, shares her journey of teachers and students working together to overcome barriers and implement meaningful, interdisciplinary climate change education in public schools in Michigan.
-
AUNE and the Michigan Alliance for Environmental and Outdoor Education put NAAEE's Community Engagement Guidelines into practice through relationship building, trust, and inclusive facilitation to improve environmental education practices and increase environmental literacy in their region.
-
Working on climate change action can sometimes feel lonely. Read more about how the CEE-Change Fellowship helped Catherine connect with Fellows from across the world and build a community of support, encouragement, and ideas to CEE-Change Together.
-
For Maggie Beetstra, the CEE-Change Fellowship Leadership Institute illustrated the importance of truly listening to community members when working toward civic engagement and environmental action. Learn how she supported a collaborative network among Higher Education Colleges in the Lehigh Valley.
-
Director of Environmental Education for Garrison Union Free School District Rachel Arbor shares why integrating EE into every subject is essential for preparing students to tackle real-world issues. See how student-led projects and community engagement transform learning. Read on for inspiration!
-
The National Wildlife Federation's RiSC Toolkit offers a roadmap for whole-community climate resilience. It bridges knowledge gaps by educating middle and high school students, teachers, and communities on climate science, impacts, justice, and local resiliency solutions.
-
CEE-Change Fellow Evan Kuras shares the transformative process experienced at the Massachursetts Environmental Education Society (MEES) planning meeting. Through internal reflections and collaborative planning, the board strengthened their relationships, formed energized action teams, and…
-
Travel to the Bocas del Toro region of Panama and learn how CEE-Change Fellow Holly Hummel engaged the local community in climate change action through an event filled with aquatic sports, recycled art, and interactive workshops.
-
Learn how CEE-Change Fellow Sarada Sangameswaran breaks climate change into manageable chunks through hands-on experiences so students can take climate action.
-
As a follow up to the 2024 EE and Civic Engagement panel, Oliver Escobar suggests that the overlap of environmental education and civic engagement is crucial to reimagining our shared worlds and acting collectively towards desirable futures.
