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Established in 1968, the New York State Outdoor Education Association is the leading professional group supporting outdoor education, environmental education, and interpretive services in New York State.
The URL is: http://naaee.org/cgi-bin/risee/noram/showorg?id=&o...
June 20th-23rd 2007 ~ Ithaca, New York
Applications due: February 16th, 2007 This NSF-funded Citizen Science Toolkit Conference will gather citizen science practitioners to help construct and refine a Toolkit for citizen science program development, implementation, and evaluation. We seek a diverse set of educators, scientists, evaluators and others who feel they can make a significant contribution to this initiative... share your expertise! Questions? Email: JLS223@cornell.edu The URL is: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/citscitoolkit/confere...
June 7-9, 2007 ~ Syracuse, New York
The Second Environmental Studies Summit for directors, faculty, and graduate students in environmental studies and related fields to discuss the state of interdisciplinary environmental teaching and research and future goals for environmental studies. The URL is: http://enspire.syr.edu/Summit/
July 15-23, 2006 ~ Brooklyn, New York
Join hundreds of marine educators and regulators for a total immersion into marine science explorations at this National Marine Educators Association conference "A City of Islands," with concurrent sessions, field trips, boat trips, keynote speakers, and a day devoted to NOAA scientists at Kingsborough Community College. The URL is: http://www.nysmea.org/con06/index.htm
A New York State-based not for profit organization with a growing national track record for advancing children's environmental health at school.
The URL is: http://www.healthyschools.org/
Background on environmental disaster of 9/11 with links to scientific and press articles; discussion of government response to the disaster; health consequences; links to other organizations and websites working on the issue.
The URL is: http://www.wtceo.org/
Find out more about the student League for Environmental and Animal Protection. Learn how we saved Earth Day at our high school, and won the NYCityWide Sanitation Department's Recycling Award.
The URL is: http://home.earthlink.net/~bxscience/
In the courtyard of South Country’s Frank P. Long Intermediate School, New York, there is a beautiful garden lush with decorative flowers, shrubs, trees, and ornamental decorations. The garden, which expanded from a small plot to the entire courtyard over the past four years, is the result of the school’s 4th & 5th grader’s Garden Club. Frank P. Long teacher Peter Cisek initiated the program with a $500 grant from radio station WBAB for educators who needed seed money to start a special program and is receiving yearly assistance from the South Country Education Foundation. The Garden Club is totally self-sustaining, and not funded by the school budget.
The URL is: http://www.southcountry.org/LONG/garden.htm
This program is designed to provide a deep understanding of systems thinking, knowledge of the Five Kingdoms of Nature, information about innovative, sustainable technologies and introduction to the ZERI methodology.
Contact: Dorna Schroeter dschroeter@pnwboces.org The URL is: http://www.pnwboces.org/environmental/Teacher_Trai...
DEC runs workshops for teachers, summer camps for young people and other educational programs at centers around the state. Site also includes project ideas for students and info on public natural areas in New York.
The URL is: http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/education/index...
Leading grass-roots community based organization in the South, South Bronx. Community Gardening, Art and Indigenous Culture, Waterfront Revitalization.
The URL is: http://www.friendsofbrookpark.org
CAC will initially administer up to $5 million, donated by Con Edison, to implement clean air strategies for selected community-based projects in New York City.
The URL is: http://www.cleanaircommunities.org
Deadline: March 20, 2006
"Teaching the Hudson Valley" makes annual curriculum development grants to K-12 New York schools collaborating with places of cultural, environmental, and/or historic significance located in the Valley and open to the public. The URL is: http://www.teachingthehudsonvalley.org/
Education Update is a free, award-winning newspaper with a readership of over 200,000 in New York City and 500,000 monthly hits on the web. Articles address important issues in education for all grade levels and include
medical and legal education. The URL is: http://www.educationupdate.com/
The Frost Valley Environmental Education Center publishes K-12 environmental education curricula aimed toward encouraging environmental education in the classroom. Teaching guides focus on a variety of topics including resource management, environment and development issues, watershed education and GIS technology ed.
The URL is: http://www.frostvalley.org/
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation offers teacher workshops for these interdisciplinary EE programs, designed to supplement an existing curricula.
The URL is: http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/education/edwrk...
The NYC WasteLe$$ individual section provides practical ideas for how to prevent waste at home, work, and school, and when shopping. The school page contains many resources for students and teachers to further explore the three R's of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.
The URL is: http://nycwasteless.org/indiv/index.html
Waterwire.net covers waterfront and watershed issues in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area. Waterwire is a weekly electronic newsletter and Waterwire.net is the home page and archive of the sponsoring organization, the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance.
The URL is: http://www.waterwire.net/
Williamsburg Watch is a volunteer-based community organization formed to stop the siting of power plants along Williamsburg, Brooklyn's waterfront. We are working together, and with a coalition of citywide activist groups, to prevent the clustering of plants in this already environmentally overburdened community.
The URL is: http://www.williamsburgwatch.org/
Learn about edible and medicinal wild vegetables, herbs, greens, fruits, berries, nuts, seeds, and mushrooms with NYC's favorite naturalist, "Wildman" Steve Brill. Find out about his public Wild Food and Ecology tours and the work he does with kids. Read excerpts from
his books and enjoy his botanical artwork and vegan recipes. The URL is: http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/
Save the Pine Bush is a volunteer, not-for-profit organization dedicated to saving the Albany Pine Bush, a globally rare ecosystem in New York State.
The URL is: http://www.savethepinebush.org/
Access maps and general information about the Delaware River Watershed. As well as educational resources and lesson plans, environmental field trip ideas, and upcoming educational opportunities throughout the basin. Created by the Delaware River Basin Commission.
The URL is: http://www.state.nj.us/drbc/edweb/edweb.htm
"EEAC is a non-profit organization made up of dedicated educators, youth leaders, environmental professionals and students. EEAC members work together to stimulate and encourage environmental education in New York City and the surrounding region." EEAC also has an email listserve for members, a newsletter and several committees to help promote the overall purpose of EEAC.
The URL is: http://www.eeac-nyc.org/
GLIN is a very comprehensive resource on the environment, geography, economy, and people of the Great Lakes region. The GLIN project is managed by the Great Lakes Commission.
The URL is: http://www.great-lakes.net/
HRES is a non profit working to foster research on the Hudson River environment and provide a forum for communication between researchers and concerned citizens.
The URL is: http://www.marist.edu/~en04/index.html
The Coalition is a non-profit network of outdoor and environmental education centers, nature centers, conservation and recreation organizations, outdoor education and experiential
education associations... that share a mission - the support and furtherance of environmental and outdoor education and its goals. The URL is: http://www.outdooredcoalition.org/
Programs for students from Community, Conservative, Orthodox and Reform Jewish Day Schools throughout the Northeast. Site offers link to job network, assists organizations, and individuals in finding potential employees/employers in the Jewish Environmental field who are committed to making the world a better place.
The URL is: http://www.tevacenter.org/
Hazecam is the Northeast's real-time air pollution visibility camera network. Real time
webcam photos of New York, Boston MA, Acadia MN, Whiteface Mountain, and Harford CT. The URL is: http://www.hazecam.net/about.htm
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research facility. "BNL's educational programs include internships, research experiences and other hands-on learning opportunities for teachers and students from high school to grad school."
The URL is: http://www.bnl.gov/scied/
Through a partnership between International Paper (IP), Paul Smith's College and the state of New York in tribute to retired IP Chairman and PSC alumnus John T. Dillon, the International Paper John Dillon Park, a 15,800-acre conservation easement in New York, was donated at a dedication ceremony on October 10th. Scheduled to open in Spring 2006, the park is located in the central Adirondack Mountains and among other amenities will provide facilities designed to accommodate people with disabilities. Park facilities will be managed and maintained by students of Paul Smith’s College through a $1.5 million endowment, giving students hands-on experience in managing outdoor recreation for people with disabilities, while learning about forest management and conservation.
The URL is: http://www.ipaper.com/
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