Environmental Education

Fellow

Joe Rand

2015 Fellow
Joseph Rand is a Scientific Engineering Associate in the Electricity Markets and Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where he contributes to research on renewable energy public acceptance, markets, and policy. He...
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Brooks helping teens in Alaska tell stories

20 years ago, when Regan Brooks was in high school, a teacher gave them each an assignment — tell a story about yourself. Brooks can’t recall what she wrote about. What she really remembers is a story a classmate told. “She shared a story in front of our whole class that,” Brooks pauses, thinking of the best explanation. “Abolished all my assumptions about her. And really made me realize there’s this person there haven’t ever bothered to get to know that I wanted to get to know more.”
June 1, 2015
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Johnson featured in article on informal science education careers

That’s not to say that the knowledge and skills researchers usually obtain in graduate school aren’t valuable assets too, says Brian Johnson, director of educational research and program development at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York City. “When you find that amazing person who has that really strong science knowledge and skill set, and they can work with a variety of different audiences and are really strong communicators, those people are amazing to have in science learning institutions. I would love to hire those people,” he says.
May 28, 2015
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Chavez organizes Asheville's inaugural neighborhood cleanup day

"The cleanup is open to anybody, of any age, part of an organized group such as a Scout group or a church group, or just families or individuals, who want to help clean up their neighborhoods," said Dawn Chávez, GreenWorks Executive Director. "It's removing litter, but also leaf debris from storm drains to keep them clear to avoid flooding, to make Asheville neighborhoods clean and safe. It's also a great way to meet your neighbors."
May 6, 2015
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Working Locally on Climate Change Adaptation

Climate change adaptation “isn’t something government is going to be able to solve alone,” says Amber Pairis. “We need to engage people in this conversation in a meaningful way. The rubber really meets the road on the ground in your community,” she adds. “And that is where change will happen”.
April 23, 2015
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Mountain Stewardship and Outdoor Leadership School

Aurora Lights, a West Virginia environmental non-profit, has taken the next step in nurturing future generations of environmental leaders with the opening of the Mountain Stewardship and Outdoor Leadership (SOL) School in Morgantown in Fall 2014. 2000 Fellow Jen-Osha Buysse is the school's first Director, and she shares her leadership lessons from the past year.
April 6, 2015
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Lewis's work with bryophytes featured on BBC

When it comes to wildlife conservation a huge personality or bags of charisma tends to help your cause. Prefacing any group of animals or plants with the words 'big', 'great' or 'giant' seems to win them fans. Big cats, great apes and giant redwoods are all the focus of on-going research, campaigns and policies attempting to preserve them for future generations. The public are easily drawn to helping iconic and visually-impressive species, which in turn leads to their plight being prioritised.
April 1, 2015
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UC Berkeley Science Shop: Connecting Community to University for Research

When 2014 Fellow Karen Andradea arrived at UC Berkeley in 2009, she was surprised to discover how challenging it was for outside organizations to partner with students and faculty on research projects. So she set out to create the UC Berkeley Science Shop, a publicly accessible entity that connects small nonprofits, local government agencies, small businesses, and other civic organizations with undergraduate and graduate student researchers.
March 27, 2015
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The secret to saving the world: How ordinary people actually can prevent global disaster

The realization that individual action has little to no impact on major environmental problems — to say nothing of the existential threat of climate change — can prompt despair, 1995 Fellow Paul Steinberg, a professor of political science and environmental policy at Harvey Mudd College, says. But it doesn’t have to. We could try, instead, consulting social scientists, who have spent a lot of time thinking about just this problem: How can a single individual can act in a way that effects large-scale change?
March 27, 2015
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Hameed publishes guide for scientists to achieve broader impacts through K-12 STEM collaboration

The National Science Foundation and other funding agencies are increasingly requiring broader impacts in grant applications to encourage US scientists to contribute to science education and society. Concurrently, national science education standards are using more inquiry-based learning (IBL) to increase students’ capacity for abstract, conceptual thinking applicable to real-world problems. Scientists are particularly well suited to engage in broader impacts via science inquiry outreach, because scientific research is inherently an inquiry-based process.
March 17, 2015