June 3, 2002

["Katharine Wang" <wangkn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

EE-NEWS @NAAEE
June 3, 2002

The semi-monthly email bulletin provided by the
North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE),
with funding from the Environmental Education and Training Partnership
(EETAP).


* NAAEE ANNUAL CONFERENCE - KEYNOTE SPEAKER PROFILE*
August 6-10 - Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts


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EE-NEWS ITEMS
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* RESEARCH/PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES*
1. Utah Society For Environmental Education - Call For Proposals
2. National Conference On Coastal And Estuarine Habitat Restoration - Call
For Proposals

* GRANTS*
3. National Geographic Society Education Foundation
4. Toshiba America Foundation Grants
5. Greenworks Grants

* UPDATES FROM THE HILL*
6. EPA Budget Proposal For FY 2003 - Update

* EE RESOURCES*
7. Australian Association For Environmental Education Conference
8. NAAEE Annual Conference - Keynote Speaker Chuck Roth
9. Association Of Nature Center Administrators Summit
10. Teaching Sustainability- Towards Curriculum Greening
11. National Education And Environment Partnership
12. Achieving Sustainable Communities: Science And Solutions


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RESEARCH/PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES
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1. UTAH SOCIETY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION - CALL FOR PROPOSALS
November 7-9, Salt Lake City, Utah

USEE's 13th Annual Environmental Education conference, Creating Sustainable
Communities, will challenge educators to use sustainability as a design
theme in their work and emphasize the need for environmental education to
move from theory to action. Ultimately sustainability will only be achieved
if ordinary citizens incorporate principles of sustainability into their
lives. Keynote speakers include David Sobel, author of "Children's Special
Places," Paul Loeb, author of "Soul of a Citizen," and Mary Smith of the
National Audubon Society.

Proposals for workshops or presentations are due before June 15th. For a
hard copy of the proposal application, contact Heather Scheel at (801)
328-1549 (hscheel@xxxxxxxx).  Applications can be faxed to (801) 595-1555,
or mailed to USEE, 350 S. 400 E. Suite G4, SLC, UT 84111.

http://www.usee.org/conference/info.html



2. NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COASTAL AND ESTUARINE HABITAT RESTORATION - CALL
FOR PROPOSALS
April 13-16, 2003 - Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland

The purpose of this conference is to mobilize the coastal and estuarine
habitat restoration community - including participants from the government,
corporate, non-profit and education sectors - to advance our knowledge,
practice, pace and success in habitat restoration.  Through wide-ranging
national participation, the conference will bring together diverse
perspectives and experiences to focus on setting priorities for, planning
and executing, and monitoring progress of coastal and estuarine habitat
restoration.  The conference will focus on habitat restoration in coastal
and estuarine areas including the Great Lakes region.

Proposal Deadline: September 13th.  For more information contact: Heather
Bradley, Conference Coordinator, Restore America's Estuaries, 703-524-0248
or hbradley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or visit:

http://www.estuaries.org/



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GRANTS
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3. NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY EDUCATION FOUNDATION

The National Geographic Foundation will make available $100,000 in grants of
up to $5,000 each to help educators make an even greater impact in their
classroom, school, district, and/or community through innovative geography
education projects. The foundation seeks to fund projects in either of two
broad categories:  Promoting Geographic Knowledge Through Education or
Promoting Stewardship of Natural and Cultural Resources.

The foundation is most interested in projects that seek to improve student
achievement through geographic literacy. In accomplishing this objective,
projects should include one or more of the following strategies: exploring
uses of new technologies; expanding student experiential learning
opportunities; providing professional development and mentoring; and
engaging families and/or communities in education.

Application Deadline: June 14th.  Application materials and guidelines
available online at:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education/teacher_community/get_grant.html



4. TOSHIBA AMERICA FOUNDATION GRANTS

The Toshiba America Foundation encourages programs, projects and activities
that have the potential to improve classroom teaching and learning of
science, mathematics and the science and mathematics of technology. Funding
is available for private and public schools, grades 7 - 12. Applications for
small grants ($5,000 or less) are accepted year round. Applications and
guidelines are available online in PDF.

http://www.toshiba.com/taf/apply.html


5. GREENWORKS GRANTS

Project Learning Tree (PLT) funds grant requests from teachers ranging from
$200 to $1000 to implement environmental community action and service
learning projects. Participants are encouraged to form partnerships with
groups, businesses or organizations within their communities to help
implement and sustain environmental projects. Examples of past projects
include stream clean-ups, graffiti paint-overs, outdoor classrooms,
schoolyard restoration, and habitat improvements.

GreenWorks! grant proposals are accepted between May and September.  Grant
guidelines and application information available at:
http://www.plt.org/greenworks/grantinfo.cfm



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UPDATES FROM THE HILL
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6. EPA BUDGET PROPOSAL FOR FY 2003 - UPDATE

The House VA, HUD and Independent Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee is
expected to begin mark-up of the EPA's FY 2003 budget proposal in late June
or early July. Both House and Senate leaders on the VA, HUD and Independent
Agencies Appropriations Subcommittees continue to express strong support for
maintaining funding and responsibilities for environmental education within
the EPA's Office of Environmental Education.

National EE Act of 1990: Overview, Implementation, and Reauthorization
Issues, David M. Bearden, February 26, 2002
http://www.cnie.org/NLE/CRS/abstract.cfm?NLEid=24682

The National Environmental Education Act of 1990
http://www.epa.gov/enviroed/whatis.html



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EE RESOURCES
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7. AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE
July 2-6 - Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

The 11th biennial conference of the Australian Association for Environmental
Education,  "Sustaining Environmental Education: Celebrating Diversity,"
will provide an opportunity for environmental educators from universities,
national parks, pre-schools and schools, private industry and government
agencies to take part in presentations and workshops that celebrate our
diversity as educators and that offer us ways of sustaining ourselves in our
work. Sub-themes include: Foundations of Environmental Education,
Environmental Education at the Cutting Edge, and Creating and Sustaining
Diversity and Sustaining Ourselves.

Conference details and schedule available online at:
http://www.olt.qut.edu.au/udf/aaee/gen/


8. NAAEE ANNUAL CONFERENCE - KEYNOTE SPEAKER CHUCK ROTH
August 6-10 - Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts

For more than four decades, Chuck Roth has been a leader and an innovator in
environmental education in Massachusetts.  Educated at Wesleyan University,
Univ. of Connecticut and Cornell University, he has taught at all levels
from elementary school through graduate courses.  For 27 years he directed
the educational programs of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Through this
and other positions he has been actively involved in the growth of EE from
1960 to 2000.

In a personal odyssey which took him from Cornell University in the 1950s -
home of Liberty Hyde Bailey and the Nature Study movement -- to his position
as senior statesman and advisor for Environmental Education in New England
in 2002, Chuck has watched it all unfold.  An integral part of the movement,
Chuck has a unique perspective on the EE field and can provide a participant
's view of the history.  As an active educator and grandparent, he
speculates about the directions in which EE is going. Join NAAEE as Chuck
takes us on an EE Journey: Where are we? How did we get here? And, Where are
we going?

Registration and conference schedule information and conference FAQs
available online:
http://naaee.org/conferences/


9. ASSOCIATION OF NATURE CENTER ADMINISTRATORS SUMMIT
August 22-25 - Lookout Mountain Nature Center, Golden, Colorado

This year's "Summit with Altitude" will offer workshops and a day of open
space sessions to address participant's interests directly.  Workshop topics
will include: Sustainable Design for Nature Centers; Applying Technology
Successfully; Proactive Personnel Management; Introduction to Visitor
Studies; and, Small Nature Center Survival Skills II ~ Understanding
Ourselves & Others.

For more information Call toll free at 1-800-490-2622; email
lbrown@xxxxxxxxxxx or visit:
http://www.natctr.org/summit.html



10. TEACHING SUSTAINABILITY- TOWARDS CURRICULUM GREENING

This book, published in cooperation with the University Leaders for a
Sustainable Future (ULSF), documents a wide range of works undertaken in
respect of sustainability teaching, with inputs from various authors from
countries as varied as Brazil, Germany, Latvia, Mexico, South Africa, Spain,
The Netherlands, UK, Canada and the United States. The descriptions of
approaches, methods and projects show how different universities in various
parts of the world are facing the challenge of teaching sustainability
concepts.

Further details and a pre-order form (the book is due July 2002) are
available at: http://www.projekte.org/teaching.sustainability



11. NATIONAL EDUCATION AND ENVIRONMENT PARTNERSHIP

The mission of this newly formed Partnership is to build connections between
leaders of the environmental education and the broader education community,
and policymakers at the federal, state and local levels.  The National
Education and Environment Partnership (NEEP) believes that environment-based
education is an authoritative, rigorous and effective vehicle for improving
the overall performance of K-12 schools, students and teachers. NEEP will
also be identifying opportunities for environmental and environment-based
education in new and existing state and federal programs.

NEEP is a project of the National Environmental Education & Training
Foundation and the U.S. EPA's Office of Environmental Education with
additional support from the Gund and AT&T Foundations.

http://www.neetf.org/Education/neep.shtm



12. ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: SCIENCE AND SOLUTIONS

A Report from the second National Conference on Science, Policy, and the
Environment released by The National Council for Science and the Environment
(NCSE). This far-reaching document underscores new approaches for creating
strong economies and healthy communities and provides constructive
approaches to address complex issues such as economic development versus
ecosystem protection. Editors of the report have also created a list of the
"Top 10 Keys To Sustainable Communities."  These "Keys" identify the crucial
aspects of achieving sustainable communities at the local, regional and
national levels.

To receive a printed copy of the conference report, send your name and
mailing address to conference@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Achieving Sustainable Communities: Science and Solutions
http://cnie.org/NCSEconference/2001conference/report/page.cfm?FID=1692

Top Ten Keys to Sustainable Communities
http://cnie.org/NCSEconference/2001conference/report/page.cfm?FID=1920



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