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Are you a champion of sustainability education in your school or community? Apply to join the fourth cohort of EcoRise Teacher Ambassadors to bring programming, support, and advanced environmental education to your community. Best of all earn a stipend while empowering teachers, students, and yourself in a subject you are passionate about!

The 2019 CSTA conference is in San Jose from October 18 – 20. We are reaching out to encourage you to submit a proposal for a 90-minute workshop that features environmental literacy. Sessions are needed that provide teachers, schools, and districts with resources, strategies, instructional materials, and programs that promote environmental literacy and California's Environmental Principles and Concepts, and specifically address implementation of the Next Generation Science Standards.

Introducing the new student authored river and water blog: Youth River Voices, youthrivervoices.com

Research in Outdoor Education, a peer-reviewed journal that supports and furthers outdoor education and its goals, is accepting manuscripts for review. Manuscripts submitted before April 1, 2019 will be considered for the 2019 issue. For more information and for submission guidelines, email Dr. Tim O'Connell at: tim.oconnell@brocku.ca

The deadline to submit a proposal for the 2019 Nature-Based Learning Conference has been extended to February 8. Share your ideas and expertise through a presentation, workshop, or poster! The conference takes place July 31-August 3, in Manchester, New Hampshire.

We're looking for organizations using Environmental Education as a pathway to youth STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) learning. Sound like you? Apply by March 12th for a chance to win up to $100,000!

The Endangered Species Coalition (ESC) is pleased to announce our 2019 Saving Endangered Species Youth Art Contest, which is open to K-12 grade students, including those who are homeschooled or belong to a youth/art program. The contest is an integral part of the 14th annual Endangered Species Day on May 17, 2019. For more background on the contest, including an art lesson plan for teachers and other resources, please visit www.endangeredspeciesday.org.

Seeking institutions interested in piloting programs to engage youth with the build environment for a sustainable and resilient future!!

The Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation is proud to announce the 7th annual Science Without Borders® Challenge. This Challenge is an international art competition that engages students in promoting the need to preserve, protect, and restore the world's oceans and aquatic resources. The Challenge is open to primary and secondary school students 11-19 years old, with prizes of up to $500 awarded to the winning entries in the middle and high school categories. The theme for 2019 is "Connected Ocean: No Barriers, No Boundaries, No Borders." The deadline to participate in this year's competition is Monday, April 22, 2019. Full submission guidelines can be found on the Khaled bin Sultan Living Ocean Foundation's website: www.lof.org/SWBChallenge

The American Horticultural Society is seeking session proposals for the 26th Annual National Children & Youth Garden Symposium, taking place July 10-13, 2019 in Madison, WI.

December 2-14, 2018, the UN COP24 (Conference of the Parties) international climate negotiations will be held in Katowice, Poland. Nations of the world will come together to continue their work on strengthening the global response to climate change and strategize how to implement the Paris Agreement. Read on for no cost opportunities to tune in!

Applications are currently being taken for teams of five high school age youth to participate in the UCAN project. Teams must be sponsored by
a 501(c)3 community organization. Applications are due January 11, 2019.

"The Freelance Condition & Lifelong Learning in Communities" survey is for freelance informal educators. This investigation focuses specifically on the contributions of freelance educators who address plants, nature, and related topics in their work.

Who are freelance informal educators?
What do they do?
Where do they work?
How do they lead?
What do they need to be better leaders?

This international competition challenges middle and high school students to lead a creative campaign in their school or community that educates others and inspires action to reduce or prevent plastic pollution and marine debris. Open to students worldwide from ages 11-18. The Competition is free to enter, and students can win a scholarship of up to $5,000!

Bow Seat invites students to create visual art, poetry, prose, film, and music that explores this year’s theme, Presence of Future: Climate Change and the Ocean. Students can earn scholarships of up to $1,500! Open to students from around the world ages 11-18. Free to enter. Deadline: June 17, 2019.

Registration for Recycle Bowl 2018 is now open! This year’s theme is “Change your world, Change the world.” Please check out our website for updates, as well as information on a NEW division to incorporate youth engagement through art. For more information, please visit: http://recycle-bowl.org.

Social and Emotional Learning and Residential Environmental Education: Leaders Needed For Partnership – Apply Today!

With increased national awareness of the importance of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in schools and communities, NatureBridge seeks to convene an influential group of leaders from residential environmental education programs to collaboratively work through the question of how to most effectively incorporate SEL frameworks, research, and preferred practices into residential Environmental Education programming.

Funding from the S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation will support this year-long effort (Fall 2018 - Fall 2019), including travel and stipends.

Global Action Summit has launched a challenge that could make a big difference. What’s needed now is for people all over the country & world to get additional cities, businesses (with fleets of vehicles), and others to join and bring this to scale! I see this initiative as a great challenge for students who are looking for a way to have an impact on reduction of greenhouse gases. If your students &/or community wants to make a difference, check out the details.

The Wellborn Leadership Conference and New England Environmental Education Alliance Conference is looking for conference presentation proposals

If your organization is developing k-12 EE materials, you can apply to attend a FREE two-day professional learning experience facilitated by Achieve. Space is limited, so register now! The workshop will be held July 12-13, 2018 at the California Endowment Center in Oakland, CA. This session is in-person only and capacity is limited. Please register by June 22, 2018 to be considered.

Students across many countries track migratory species and share information.

Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Environmental Education

NAAEE

NAAEE Members are invited to submit nominations to recognize the positive contributions of individuals and organizations in the field of EE. Awardees will be recognized at the Annual NAAEE Conference. The deadline for 2018 award nominations is August 3.

The Wildlife Center of Virginia invites you to the 23rd Annual Call of the Wild conference on wildlife rehabilitation November 16-18, 2018 at the Best Western Inn & Suites Conference Center in Waynesboro, VA.
Wildlife rehabilitators, veterinary professionals, wildlife biologists, environmental educators, and wildlife enthusiasts from Virginia and beyond will share ideas and knowledge that can benefit wildlife, the environment, and the continually evolving field of wildlife rehabilitation. The conference is sponsored by the Wildlife Center of Virginia, one of the nation’s leading teaching and research hospitals for native wildlife, and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries [VDGIF].

More information can be found online.
http://wildlifecenter.org/call-wild-conference

The Environmental Education Association of Oregon will be holding their Environmental Education Conference, "Exploring Our Connections through Environmental Education", September 28-30 in Canby, Oregon. The conference brings together educators from across Oregon for professional development, networking, and inspiration.